ABOUT DOXAZO
WHAT IS DOXAZO?
Pronounced DOX-AD'-ZO
(New Testament Greek Lexicon)
verb
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to think, suppose, be of opinion
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to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate
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to honour, do honour to, hold in honour
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to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendour
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to impart glory to something, render it excellent
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to make renowned, render illustrious
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to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged
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"to impart glory to something, render it excellent"
"Throughout the last two decades of my professional career, I’ve witnessed firsthand the 'plight of the small business'.”
INTRODUCTION
Millions of people start new ventures each year. Of those that survive, 96% fail to scale beyond $10M in annual revenue. Throughout the last two decades of my professional career, I’ve witnessed firsthand the “plight of the small business”.
Anyone who’s owned (or worked for) a small business has undoubtedly faced distinct the challenges and frustrations that come with it. It feels so busy, yet somehow the company continues to tread water instead of take new ground in any major way. Communication is rarely as good as it should be. Mistakes are being made, things are slipping through the cracks, balls are being dropped, and you begin to question whether or not you’ve hired the right people.
If your company has hit the $1M mark, it’s obvious you’ve already achieved a certain degree of success. You’ve likely even identified some of your organization’s issues and begun work to address them. For some reason however, the same problems keep resurfacing, the operational fire drills persist, and the positive results you’re looking for continue to evade you.
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The bottom line is, growing your small business isn’t as easy or as fun as you’d hoped it would be; and the positive ending you’ve fantasized about is nowhere in sight. You have probably pondered, “How will I ever elevate myself into a true Executive role or be able to step away someday, if I can’t trust my team to take ownership, successfully run our day-to-day, and take care of our customers without me?”
THE PROBLEM
People that truly believe in their product or service want to share it with everyone. In order to do this, you must grow your organization and take it to the next level. This is where a new set of challenges presents itself. How do you grow your company and still provide meaningful solutions to your customers, without going belly-up in this ever-changing, fast-paced, and dynamic business landscape?
"How do you grow your company and still provide meaningful solutions to your customers, without going belly-up in this ever-changing, fast-paced, and dynamic business landscape?"
"I didn’t know where to start, or who to trust, and I certainly didn’t feel like I had the time for a deep-dive into finding out."
THE JOURNEY
Many years ago, like you, I set out to find out the answer to the problem above. Just as many executives and entrepreneurs would do, I began searching for literature that would educate me on how to proceed. I scoured the internet for resources, and that’s when I hit the first roadblock. As it turns out, there are thousands of business gurus out there who release over 11,000 new business books… every year! I didn’t know where to start, or who to trust, and I certainly didn’t feel like I had the time for a deep-dive into finding out.
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Since at the time that idea didn’t work out, I came up with a new plan. I thought, “perhaps we’ll just defer to the experts”. Thus began our search for a consultant. I was surprised by what we encountered next. We stumbled across a number of one-man operations that appeared to be professionals “moonlighting” as consultants. Their websites looked low-budget, and their content didn’t inspire a lot of confidence that these individuals could improve our company (since what they were presenting for themselves didn’t look so good).
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This caused us to shift our focus to some larger outfits. Unfortunately, the larger consultancies all seemed quite out of our league (because we were such a relatively small operation at the time). In a sense, it was almost embarrassing to contact them after seeing the logos of the corporate juggernauts with who they had worked.
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The larger consultancies charge an arm and a leg for their services, but their facilitators seemed to be “less seasoned” in their careers. Apparently, the average entry age into these types of firms tends to be in the low 20s as their consultants are recruited just out of university.
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For months we searched, but couldn’t find a good match. We wanted to partner with someone who was the right fit. Someone we could trust.
THE "SOLUTION"
Finding the right consultancy never panned out for us. Instead, we began experimenting with some of the trending and proven methodologies to strengthen our organization. It took several years of strategic management, organizational development, and change management to yield the results we were looking for.
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I do not recommend researching, planning, implementing, evaluating, and refining your development programs internally from scratch (like we did). Yes, it can be done, but the learning curve, headaches, resource allocation, and other wastes are absolutely not worth it to save a few thousand dollars. In the end, you’ll spend much more trying to “do it in-house” and what’s worse, you’ll delay your organization’s growth.
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The convenience, efficiency, and effectiveness of partnering with a consultant will have you improving productivity, enhancing teamwork, developing leaders, promoting positive work culture, and facilitating change much more quickly. Not to mention, using outside help will minimize disruption of your day-to-day operations and mitigate any negative impacts on your stakeholders.
"It took several years of strategic management, organizational development, and change management to yield the results we were looking for."
"I’ve used the expertise gained to create a consultancy that IS a good match, IS the right fit, and IS the one small businesses can trust"
THE SILVER LINING
The extensive effort it took to learn about, implement, evaluate, and improve tools and methodologies for growth was not in vain. Fast forward several years, I’ve used the expertise gained to create a consultancy that IS a good match, IS the right fit, and IS the one small businesses can trust to help them get from $1M to $10M and beyond.
WHO WE ARE
Doxazo exists for the purpose of helping our communities. We believe helping others is what we’re made for. Business growth means more jobs, resources for community programs, social cohesion, and reduced need for social benefits.
We desire to use our unique abilities for the betterment of others. In fact, we are so passionate about our purpose that we are committed to donating 10% of our top-line revenue to charity each and every month.
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Our mission is to impart the wisdom that will enable small businesses to grow while continuing to provide meaningful solutions to their customers, without going belly-up in this ever-changing, fast-paced, and dynamic business landscape.
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We are secure in the fact that we are providing our clients with timeless principles and practices. We are not offering temporary solutions or software that will likely become obsolete in our ever-changing world of technological innovation and artificial intelligence.
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Our solutions are designed to last. Continuous improvement is deeply ingrained into each of our services, making them adaptable to your organization's changing needs over time.
We are fortunate enough to have been blessed with the opportunities to finetune the traits and skills that make for effective partners and advisers. We are able to provide a useful service that the world needs, we are great at what we do, and we truly love doing it.
"Our mission is to impart the wisdom that will enable small businesses to grow while continuing to provide meaningful solutions to their customers, without going belly-up in this ever-changing, fast-paced, and dynamic business landscape."
OUR CORE VALUES
Discipline - Alignment - Patience - Solace
Pursue Flawless Discipline
We are disciplined to processes. In the case of errors, we are compassionate first and corrective second. We delegate appropriately and effectively. We are good stewards and disciplined to responsible spending. We hold ourselves accountable. When the situation requires, we justly hold others to account. We don't cut corners or cause problems for others down-stream. We hold in high regard "Teamwork" over "collaboration". When the chips are down, we sacrifice for the greater good of our clients and our company.
Propagate Alignment
We believe companies that align talent with business strategy outperform those that do not. Employees are more fulfilled, joyful, and motivated when pursuing common goals. We are thankful to be a part of an aligned organization. We do our best to ensure unceasing alignment internally, and we encourage external vendors, partners, and client organizations to embrace strategic alignment.
Patience Leads to Peace
We don't "shoot from the hip". "Impact" takes priority over "urgency". We gather the appropriate information needed to make good and timely decisions. Relying on secondhand information is unacceptable, always get confirmation of the truth. Stay focused on the business strategy, don't run to fight every "fire".
Provide Comfort and Solace
We exude calmness and maintain our composure. Our clients find peace in that our success is bound to theirs. Our actions define our reputations; our partners can feel secure that we are not willing to jeopardize ours or theirs. If something goes awry we are fully committed to restoration and making our clients whole. We are an honest operation and condemn the use of shady business practices. We learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow.