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Larry Blumsack
Founder, President


    "The need to grow creative capital is not simply a competitive issue for individual companies. It is an economic challenge for the United States. To defend the U.S. economy, we (need to) tap into the creative potential of more and more workers. The reason? Wherever creativity goes, economic growth follows."            - Richard Florida, Harvard Business Review

    Zoka Institute Services
    Arts-based training for business growth

    Zoka Training® focuses on individuals, work groups or specific business or product challenges through a
    hands-on, highly interactive and experiential based program through

    * Training
    * Coaching
    * Consulting
    * Facilitating
    * Workshops
    * Keynote Speaker


    About Zoka Institute

    For critical thinkers, creative problem solvers and collaborators Zoka Training teaches individuals a skill set
    that can influence any organization's bottom line - the fine art of developing creative solutions through collaborative, upside/down thinking. By focusing on exploring ideas rather than identifying problems, Zoka Training unlocks hidden creative potential by showing individuals how to think outside their
    preferred styles and focus their creative energy – thus turning knowledge workers into inspired thinkers and solutions-driven contributors.





    Volume 3 Issue 2 2/09








Hello %%First Name%%, 

  • Learn how to develop 21st Century Skills to strength and stabilize your portfolio companies and how to focus on improving the "top line."

 

  • Learn how to motivate and drive your companies to their Revenue and Creativity Tipping Points.


"Strengthen your portfolio companies" is the consistent mantra chanted by respected, knowledgeable M&A gurus all over the U.S.. Gurus like Chris O'Brien of Investcorp International, Advent International's Managing Partner Steve Tadler, Vin Raina - Managing Director of Boston Ventures, Michael Psaros - Co-Founder and Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners, etc.. 

The chant continues with "stabilize the portfolio companies, improve operations, and focus on the bottom-line." The larger question, however, is how many PE firms have the talent onboard to achieve those tasks - Very, Very, Very Few.  So what do they do?

Anyone interested in the PE world continually gather at conferences, breakfasts, lunches or wherever a group can gather to learn what these M&A gurus have say about the future of PE. The gurus continually make it clear that one's skills in

operational improvements for portfolio companies is the mantra that will determine what PE firms will still be around in when the dust clears. When will the dust clear? The consensus predictions are in 12-24 months. At that time greater than 50% of the presently existing PE firms will be history.


And what about focusing on the improving the Top Line?


So, do you have the 21st Century Skills in your  company to stimulate and foster critical thinking, creative problem solving and collaboration for innovation in your portfolio companies?  Or are your in-house skills still based on the long-past

Industrial Age MBA skills of analytical, logical, sequential, linear thinking? Face it, even the Technology Age ended. We are now in the 21st Century and the Conceptual Age.

In this global economy the ability to be nimble, facile and adaptable; the ability to be innovative in a world of uncertainty is the antithesis of"left-brain" thinking.

Be one of the survivors to make it to the"Golden Age" of M&S and Private Equity.
 

  • Learn how to develop 21st Century Skills to strength and stabilize your portfolio companies and how to focus on improving the "top line."

 

  • Learn how to motivate and drive your portfolion companies to their Revenue and Creativity Tipping Points – contact Zoka Institute.


To learn how to establish a comprehensive and creative work environment in your portfolion companies that leads to innovation please email me at

lblumsack@zokainstitute.com.
 
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Regards,

Larry

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