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A LEADERSHIP DIAGNOSTIC · FROM MPS

The Core Four.

Four questions. Five minutes.

From the team at MPS

SELF-DIAGNOSTIC

Foundation first. Intentional growth.

A self-diagnostic for the leadership team. Sit with each question before you answer. The honest answer is the useful one — and the answers, taken together, will tell you which step you're actually on.

The order is not a suggestion.

01 · THE FOUR QUESTIONS

One question per stage of the methodology. The order matters.

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CLARITY · DIAGNOSE

01 / 04

If I asked three people on your team to describe your ideal buyer, would I get the same answer?

THE QUESTION UNDERNEATH

Clarity isn't what the CEO knows. It's what the company operates on. Three different answers means three different companies trying to sell to three different people.

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OPERATING MODEL · DESIGN

02 / 04

Who owns growth — not marketing, not sales, growth?

THE QUESTION UNDERNEATH

Most companies have owners for functions. Few have an owner for the outcome. If nobody's calendar gets blown up when growth stalls, nobody owns it.

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REVENUE ARCHITECTURE · BUILD

03 / 04

If you doubled your spend tomorrow, would you know where every dollar landed?

THE QUESTION UNDERNEATH

A real revenue architecture means every dollar has a path and a signal. If you can't trace the dollar, you don't have architecture — you have activity.

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EXECUTION · GROW

04 / 04

When something works, can you do it again on purpose?

THE QUESTION UNDERNEATH

Execution without foundation is luck. Execution with foundation is a system. The difference shows up the second time.

02 · READING THE ANSWERS

There's no scoring.

Pay attention to where you hesitated. The questions you couldn't answer in one breath are usually the places the foundation needs work.

Most leadership teams find one or two landed somewhere uncomfortable. That's not a problem. That's a starting point.

If you want to talk through what you found, we're here.

Foundation first. Intentional growth.

If one of the four questions landed somewhere uncomfortable, that's usually the conversation worth having.

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