Is your business stuck in a rut? Instead of continuously moving forwards and developing, gaining the sustainable income streams, are you are somewhat stuck at one point, unable to figure out, how and why? You must be doing everything right, or…

Your risk having Executive Dysfunction Syndrome.

Executive Dysfunction Syndrome comes from clinging to an obsolete Business rulebook, which means focusing your time and resources primarily on increasing short term shareholder value. The consequences?

In today’s brief, and potently valuable video, you will discover precisely why focusing on maximizing shareholder value as your primary business strategy will continuously leave your business stuck and flailing during fast paced and turbulent times.

I will discuss how you can spot the business patterns and symptoms of living with Executive Dysfunction Syndrome and show you precisely how the Strategic Wealth Creator System ™ will transform your life and your business, making you more agile and responsive to changes in your market or business.

I will also share how to simplify your business and your job as CEO to focus only on strategic effectiveness, and provide you with the two absolutely game-changing tools you must have for your business to succeed. 

If you are stuck and can’t figure out how to overcome the stumbling blocks in your business...If low performance is keeping you up at night, this video will provide you with a mapped out thinking processes that can be applied and put into practical use by any organization.

Click for the video below to learn more about Creative Leadership for Turbulent Times ™ ...a certain cure for Executive Dysfunction Syndrome.

THE VIDEO AND BLOG POST BELOW IS PART 3 OF A 3 PART COACHING SESSION BETWEEN ME AND MY CLIENT JOHN, A CEO OF A LARGE CORPORATE FAMILY BUSINESS. 

IF YOU MISSED PARTS 1 AND 2, YOU CAN FIND THEM HERE AND HERE.

PART 3

Nobody likes uncertainty. In life and business, the possibility of everything you know failing and falling apart is terrifying. 

WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNEW ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS IS WRONG? 

After all, we live in a complex and ever-changing world, and uncertainty poses a tremendous challenge to most businesses, especially to those led by CEOs unaware of how to navigate these fast-moving times. My courses, programs, tools, and expertise can show you exactly what you MUST do in order to create sustainable profitable growth   The core ingredient of strong and healthy sales and profits is sustainability...you must learn the strategic tools necessary to ask the right questions, so you can identify changes to your business before the changes are big problems deteriorating your sustainable profitable growth. System thinking enables the CEO to see the entire business and how each part of the ecosystem, in and out of the business, impacts sustainable profitability.  System thinking means looking at the overall picture rather than the separate elements. With it, a CEO can predict and prevent small problems to create devastating business results.  Thus, the uncertainty vanishes.

In this video, you will discover,

• Why is Systems Thinking best suited to the challenges of a fast-moving and complex world?
• How Apple used Systems Thinking to revolutionize the personal technology market, and create millions of rabid fans.
• How to assess whether your corporate system and processes were built based on strategic thinking or by default, and what you can do to change the status quo.
• Why resting and recharging your mind is vitally important to the success of your corporation
• The power of masterminding, the exact benefits to your business of implementing a mastermind process,  and the ideal people to have in your strategic mastermind group.
• The fundamental question for widening the perspective of what has been missing in your business system...the same one Apple asked before creating the iPad.
• The most structured, powerful and interactive program and tools on the market you can access anytime, anywhere and use with your management teams to change the trajectory of your business and create sustainable wealth in turbulent times. You will be astonished at how few hours per week you and your team must spend with these tools to achieve long-term profitable growth.

Everything I share in this video, in fact, all of my systems, are designed specifically for the CEO. My program and resources are absolutely unique in this global market.

I developed my programs, as described throughout these three coaching sessions because, after years of research trying to find a program to share with my CEO clients...none existed.  Sure there were programs based on the old way of doing things, with the concepts we learned in MBA school, but the programs were based on the old model and the old linear business model.

Nothing taught the CEOs to think strategically, to understand the entire business and the metrics and data indicating problems long before they show up in those old models.  And that’s not all...Nothing I could find started from the future and worked backwards.  Everything started with prior results.  Thus, CEOs could not possibly have the ability to strategically plan for the unknown elements yet to happen...and in a fast moving business world, CEOs must be able to see around corners to what is coming.

Otherwise, their business will fail.

Are you ready to discover sustainable and profitable growth, abundant cash flow and wealth creation in your corporate family business?

We do live in turbulent and ever-changing times.  By using the right system and strategic thinking principles, your business can withstand the changes, experience sustained growth, and bring continuous profit almost on autopilot.

We invite you to watch the video, complete your personal assessment (here) and contact us to schedule a complimentary consultation to help determine which of our programs is right for your business. 

Questions or inquiries please contact Carlos Dias at carlosd@carlosdias.com

A Business Coaching Session with Carlos Dias and His Mentee John

Welcome back. Last week you learned about the Leadership Mindset for Turbulent times. If you haven’t yet watched Part 1, please head on over and watch the video, as you will need that foundation for this section.

Today Carlos Dias and his Mentee John will be talking about how to focus on things that matter...and how to eliminate the noise of obsolete theories, bias, and routine.

Key takeaways from today’s video include:

● Identifies the glue that holds your business together. Carlos identifies the ideal core of your business. (1:20)

● Reveals the three key assistants you need to start down the path of leadership success. (4:14)

● Defines one critical type of reasoning which should never be overlooked in decision-making is one most CEOs always try to avoid. Discover what it is and why. (4:38)

● Uncovers the strange but effective first critical step highly successful and innovative businesses use in strategic planning. (12:12)

I want to particularly draw your attention to two key leadership principles I share in this video:

1. System Thinking
2. Transformational Leadership

As you reach these sections, pay careful attention to these ideas and how your style of leadership and thinking compare. You can read more about these specific principles here and here.

John and I also speak about employee motivation...a critical issue in a fast-paced world. I share with John the key motivators present in every workforce, and how such motivators cause a company to create profitability or crumble to its death. The information I share here will help you quickly identify problems in your teams and achieve a more innovative and impactful workforce.

At the end of the video, I have provided you with links to two powerful and proven step-by-step processes designed to help you create your Company’s Value Statement and craft your Committed and Shared Business Vision.


We invite you to share this valuable information and resources with your network of colleagues, employees and business partners.



Click to watch the video:

Please comment below and tell us your biggest takeaway from the video. We look forward to interacting with you.



Questions or inquiries please contact Carlos Dias at carlosd@carlosdias.com



A Business Coaching Session with Carlos Dias and His Mentee John



If you’ve been reading this blog or reviewing our videos, by now you are likely convinced your role as CEO has shifted from one focused on tactics to keep momentum in your business, with a focus on achieving operational efficiency, to a strategic leader with foresight allowing you to see around corners and the ability to take advantage of upcoming opportunities to maximize your customer relationships for sustainable profitable growth.

You have probably admitted to yourself you are not quite where you want to be, as a strategic leader in turbulent times, and you know you need processes, strategies and a new toolkit to help you achieve growth in profits and dividends during these turbulent and non-linear times.

Over the next three weeks, I am going to invite you to be a fly on the wall as I mentor my client John and share with him the secrets to sustainable and profitable growth in turbulent times.

As you watch these three potent videos, you will discover the strategies they do not teach in business school….the secrets to sustained profitable growth in turbulent times.

Part 1: Changing The Seen and Unseen

The secret to sustaining profitable growth in your corporate family business no longer needs to be a secret...and in this video with John, I begin to shed the light on the shifts you must make now to create far greater and more sustainable profitable growth.

In the age of information and technology, you can put your business growth and continuously build profit, practically on autopilot, If you know the right methods and principles to use in your business in the current environment...one rewarding new business for their agility and innovation, and one where entire industries are continuously interrupted.

If you are struggling to maintain profitability, cutting costs or focused on very short term fixes, the harsh is that you and your team lacks the updated skills and tools to create sustainable and profitable growth.

Deep inside, you know if do not upgrade your leadership system with the proper tools and processes to become agile and innovative, your profits and market share will continue to decline, as you fight to catch up with the new world order.

It’s time for an upgrade

In this video, I will show you precisely what your business is missing.

My knowledge is based on my work in leadership and advisory roles with hundreds of companies just like yours, augmented by a lifelong study of corporate leadership, systems and processes. These are not simply ideas or theories. What I teach has already worked, and continues to work to help corporate family businesses thrive in the ever changing 21st century.

When you understand the principles I reveal in this video, and build processes and tools to create a business strategy around such principles, you will no longer have to worry about losing market share and profitability, even in these turbulent times.

Stop Wishful Thinking


In my experience, most CEOs and their executive teams are “wishful thinkers.” They make decisions, not based on facts and the reality of their operations, but on how they wish the world worked inside and outside of their walls.

Very few CEOs fall into the realm of “strategic thinker”. In fact, according to a study on CEOs from 2005-2015 published by the American Management Institute entitled A Global Study of Leadership “Strategy development is the most important leadership competency...just 4% of CEOs fall into the strategist category.”

If you do not discover the right method to break out of this utterly destructive “wishful” mindset and thinking model and become a competent strategist, your competitors will overtake you, and your business will sink in these quickly changing times.


This video will show you a system of principles and the real way to change your perspective and become the CEO strategist you need to be.

Here are some key highlights included in the video:

• Discover the true definition of an Accurate Strategic Thinking CEO and WHY you have to be one to survive and thrive in a turbulent world. (2:50)
• Identify the three key strategic management skills you were never taught in business school, and now must know to achieve success in these turbulent times. (8:06)
• Hear the one thing Kodak, Yahoo, and Blackberry did to cause a domino effect, catastrophically demolishing their market position, and what you must do to avoid such a fate (8:20)
• Discover the six mandatory components for creating strategic awareness and what each can do to create massive results in your business. (8:48)
• Learn the 2 crucial elements that, if missing, would sink your business, even if you learn everything ever written about business models, systems, thinking and principles. (12:42)
• Gain an understanding of the one way to create continuous growing income on autopilot, even in a fast-moving world. (16:42)
• Receive tools to identify why your latest breakthrough idea is not a thriving success (23:55)
• Receive the one critical mindset mistake causing failure even for accurate strategic thinkers, and how to overcome it. (26:14)



We now invite you to settle in, close the door, turn off the phone, and focus on this video to gain eye-opening knowledge learn the exact methods and for Sustainable and Profitable Growth.

And after you are finished, we encourage you to comment below and share your greatest takeaway.

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If you have questions or inquiries please contact Carlos Dias directly at carlosd@carlosdias.com.


Strategy Begins and Ends With You...The Leader

Wisdom from the age of Confucius says,  “If you are the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” 

But should this really be true of every room...even the boardroom when the CEO and leader of a corporate family business, when meeting with her management team?

Of course, it is. 

In our last blog, we talked about the new paradigm of business today, and how you, as CEO, must evolve into being a foresight based strategist, able to see around corners toward new future opportunities. 

As the leader of your corporation, you are in charge of strategy.  You must

1. Set the strategic tone and direction of the company as a whole
2. Set the cultural tone
3. Build  your organizational team to implement the strategy

This does not mean you, as the leader, need to have all of the answers…

Your role as CEO is to ask the right questions and to surround yourself with a Mastermind Group Alliance, your executive management team responsible for deeply knowing their parts of the organization. 

Your Mastermind Group Alliance

If you, as the CEO, are responsible for asking the right questions, it is your Mastermind Group Alliance’s job to provide you with truthful answers so you are making strategic decisions based on reality...and not some fantasy world. 

To do this, you must insist on using Accurate Thinking Processes, a methodology I share in detail in my book The CEO Who Sees Around Corners, and teach in depth in my advisory sessions and corporate programs. 

When you surround yourself with a Mastermind Group Alliance dedicated to the use of Accurate Thinking Processes to provide you answers and ideas based in the reality of your organization, you can finally become the foresight based strategic leader your corporation requires to create prosperous long-term growth and thrive profitably in these fast moving, non-linear times.

Click on the image below to get a copy of the book.

Video Blog #1

Grow Your Leadership Mindset

The Key to Sustainable Profitable Growth in a Fast-Moving World

1-hour duration

Global business leaders call on Carlos when they get stuck. Their back story runs to a fairly universal pattern. Cut away the details and it goes something like this. They are frustrated because their business is failing short of its commercial potential. Oh, sure, it’s surviving, maybe even growing, marginally, but high-sustained exponential growth is not happening. These leaders keep bumping their heads against an invisible growth ceiling. They’ve gotten themselves locked into a low-growth pattern and they don’t know why. No matter what they try, they can’t reach escape velocity in their business. Can you relate? Are you seeing a similar pattern in your business?

Now here is the amazing thing. These leaders who need to get unstuck, they’re located all over the world. They’re in every niche of every industry you can think of, every size business, old industries and new, it doesn’t matter, because nine times out of 10 the root cause of their slow growth can be found on this chart. What the chart is saying is that there is a way to change your results if you change the way you think. Conversely, if you don’t change the way you think, then no matter what you do, you’re not likely to change your results much at all.

So, listen up. In this video blog, you’ll get to eavesdrop as Carlos shows to his mentee John, a Chief Executive Officer, how to use this chart to locate the key growth limiting barriers in his business and how to knock over those barriers once and for all.

That is one of, if not the most, important mentoring session Carlos had. Why? Because, Carlos is giving you the secret of leading companies - in other words, why they succeed in a fast-moving world.

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Click here to get the Grow Mindset Chart