Conditions of Readiness

We've distilled key business principles into ten Conditions of Readiness to ensure our clients avoid or escape the self-employment trap where cashflow crisis, overwhelm, and frustration often become the norm. Whether you already meet Discovery Centre for Entrepreneurship's Conditions of Readiness, or you have work to do in preparing your business for success, it's important to have a clear vision of where you're going. 

1. Experience has indicated to you that anything is possible...and you want to test the upper limits of this theory.

2. You know in your heart you have an operational role to play in calling forth a new economy; one that honours People, Performance, Profit, and Planet. Like the four tires on your car, it's damaging to continue driving on a flat tire!

3. You believe that:

• Entrepreneurs create jobs and transform their communities;
• Business leaders who spur economic growth are applying a learnable system;

• Wealth creation can be kind to people, financially sustainable, and operate congruent with nature;

• Real time learning, in a peer-to-peer environment, elevates struggling employees to valuable team players, struggling business owners to world class entrepreneurs, and struggling communities to economic powerhouses;

• Conscious communication and conscious leadership fosters a soul-nurturing culture and opens pathways to possibility for people, organizations, communities and great nations.

4. You have built a scalable business model and learned to build an enterprise with the capability to handle a growing amount of work with no significant drop in performance, effectiveness or reliability. If you have not yet built a scalable business, you are willing to design the architecture within your current enterprise within the next 8-12 months. 

5. You have a growth mindset. As a leader your commitment is to learn and grow together through consistent action, open feedback, and course corrections in order to increase the size and scope of your impact beyond anything you can accomplish independently.

6. You have systemized your knowledge and expertise. Instead of being “the one”, you've created a set of detailed methods, procedures, distinctions or routines that enable other people to carry out a specific activity, perform a duty, or solve a problem that you yourself have truly mastered.

7. You are emotionally mature. You have a well developed ability to identify, objectively assess, and positively influence your own feelings as well as those of your clients, employees, suppliers, and lenders.

8. You are ready to implement your business solutions within a regional or sector-specific market, or enter the National or International business stage...whatever is the next right action for you to take.

9. You are determined to continually improve your systems and processes to evolve the work you do with your clients. 

10. You are willing to elevate your game, make bold promises about what your systems can do for others, and operate consistent with Discovery Centre for Entrepreneurship's Code of Honour. ​

If you already meet these Conditions of Readiness, CONGRATULATIONS!  

​We'd like to learn more about your products, programs, or services–especially if your offerings help other entrepreneurs grow successful businesses. If our values and operating principles align, perhaps we can "discover" your business and help facilitate its growth!  ​

Preview the Code of Honour