Being a Quant: Growth-Drive is at the Dawn of Decoding the Private Business Genome

There is so much noise about Ai, right? Near-term, why should we care? Maybe we should care to the extent that technology and machines can help us better connect with our clients and help them. 

Growth-Drive is on the road to decoding the private business genome™.

Decoding the genome is helping senior pros like you expand their reach and relevance and build thriving advisory businesses… Does this make you curious? Then good.

Listen to the Podcast as presented by Ai. (Sorry, but you’ll miss the valuable links below...)

What will your curiosity drive you to do? If you’re like most of your peers, you’re a lifelong learner - and curiosity will prod you to learn more. Which is why your colleagues are registering at a record-setting pace for the Growth-Drive Summit: ‘Business Advisory in the Quantum Age: Harnessing Technologies and Delivering Client Wins.’  

So let’s tease it out. First, let’s look at the market. For this week’s Business Advisor Hot Seat Podcast we harnessed technology and quickly taught a machine to sound like me, creating an audio recording of the preface to my book. The preface is all about data and the market, about the NEED for business advisors, about the critical role you play in growing pre-middle and middle market businesses. You can check it out here. (Like, share, subscribe!) 

In a Quantum Age, you may want to be a Quant… Do you? 

When someone describes themselves as a "Quant", they are referring to being a quantitative analyst or an expert in quantitative analysis, particularly in the finance and investment management fields. (Here’s a treat for you: got this Quant definition using Perplexity - use it, you’ll never go back to plain old google search.)

Being a "Quant" means that you’re an expert in using mathematics, statistics, data analysis, and computational techniques to analyze financial markets, securities, investments, and risks. Is this you? 

Let’s put this in the context of Growth-Drive’s three guiding principles:

1. Private businesses are the engines for the pursuit of happiness
2. We intentionally create an indelible positive impact
3. It's only real if it can be measured

Since that which can be measured can be improved, we use quantified analytics, quantifiable measurements, and defined Rocks to understand our clients and power improvement. 

And we believe as you do: if private businesses are the engines for the pursuit of happiness and maximized transferable value is the ultimate measure of business success, “delivering client wins” means co-driving with our client CEOs to deliver predictable profits and cash flow, sustainable growth, and predictable transferable value.

Back to the Summit: After participating* in the summit you will know how and why to harness the power of technology and Ai to build your advisory business and deliver client wins. Let’s not talk about technology or fear it, let’s roll up our sleeves and get it done. See you here in Charleson. -George

*Participating: I received a lovely call from a very senior NYC I-Banker who registered for the Summit based on a colleague regaling him with how immersive, impactful, fun and valuable our Summits are. This is no chalk and talk - you will have fun learning things you can apply in your business and engagements immediately. We promise. 

Will you embrace technology? As Joe Strummer of The Clash chants: “London calling to the faraway towns, now war is declared, and battle called down. London calling to the underworld, come out of the cupboard you boys and girls...” My key takeaway? We can embrace technology, embrace change, win the battles and the war. Learning how to win is such fun, right?