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HBO (Happy Business Owners).  Smart State’s Purpose, our Cause and our Passion is helping Business Owners “Be Happy”. What makes a Business Owner happy? Our definition continues to evolve, and there is not an absolute Singularity, but, these three things certainly are part of the equation and what Smart State works to deliver.

1.    A Business Owner is happy when his business has profitable cash flow.

2.    A Business Owner is happy when he has engaged employees, limited people issues.

3.    A Business Owner is happy when he has a plan he is working, when he knows where he is going and how he is going to get there. With a plan comes balance. With a plan comes peace of mind.

We help business owners be Happy with their companies by simplifying business leadership.

We work exclusively with Owners, CEOs and Leadership Teams of privately held companies who are dissatisfied with their current business situation, dissatisfied with the status quo.

Our deliverable is a thinking and doing solution called Smart State.

"As of today, April 21st, 2010, we are honored to be serving and helping to improve the lives and businesses of over 57 Business Owners and CEO's in the Triangle." 

Smart State helps Business Owners provide their organizations the directional clarity and Traction
© (accountability and discipline) they need to implement their decisions smartly, consistently and efficiently. Yielding Profitable Cash Flow, Engaged Employees, and Peace of Mind via planning and clear directional decision making.

Unlike TAB, EO, Vistage, Executive Round Tables, or Corporate Boards that mostly help with decision making, Smart State compliments and augments these worthwhile decision making endeavors by simplifying business leadership to a point where real, lasting Traction 
(accountability and discipline) is achieved and maintained.

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We are Business Coaches, Facilitators and system Implementers. Yes, we will Consult on matters like turn-around cash flow, and marketing etc. etc. But our focus is Coaching - helping our clients become better "players".

A Perspective Walt likes to share:

"Consultants have "the answers", they tell you what to do.

Coaches teach, train, watch, engage, motivate.

Coaches love the "game", they are almost always former players who become students of the "game".  Coaches operate systems that they believe in, they work with players to teach the systems, and they work with their systems so the players achieve maximum potential..... that is a coach."


All Smart State Business Coaches are former Business Owners or CEOs that leverage two proven coaching systems, The Alternative Board (TAB) and the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), two systems that allow Smart State's Business Coaches to deliver their experience to clients consistently and efficiently.

In some ways, we act as "life coaches" because we help Owners and CEOs find balance between work and life, we help them align their personal and business visions.

We are discrete and focused, we concentrate on delivering real world, measurable, sustainable  results via your team - all from - business leadership simplification.

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Turnaround Management

Crisis Management

Profit and Performance Improvement
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TAB and EOS, are the cornerstone programs that make up our Smart State practice. Proven effective by thousands of companies coast to coast TAB and EOS are not the latest fad or idea of the week, they are sound approaches, refined by real-world business usage.

We also maintain a quiver of other tools or "products" that are used for you to get the most from your efforts.  As needs arise, we have on-line assessment tools, on-line thinking capture tools, questionnaires, articles, books etc. etc.

Remember, We are Coaches first, and as any great coach, we are students of the game and come to the game bringing with us systems (TAB and EOS) that we follow and rely upon heavily. However, we will use additional products or tools we deem necessary to get the most from every player.
 
Smart State Has Offices in Cary and Raleigh North Carolina
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