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During
his 31-year successful career growing his own surgical equipment
business, Mr. Kimbrell spent too much time in the head-to-head
competition of Red Oceans. He knows firsthand the intensity
of cutthroat competition. Yet, he always survived to fight another
day. By implementing his long-held values of honesty, integrity,
hard work, and ethical leadership, by employing stellar customer
service, and by creating win/win partnerships, he built a thriving
multimillion-dollar enterprise. |
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During those years Mr. Kimbrell also created Blue Oceans, new
uncontested market space making the competition irrelevant. He did
not know what it was called at the time. But, he certainly
appreciated and savored their unprecedented profitable growth.
Through sheer creativity, Value Innovation, a great deal of
consternation, a little tribulation, persistence, and a lot of
intestinal fortitude, he successfully constructed the essence of
that uncontested market space described in Professor Kim and
Mauborgne’s best-selling book in 2005, Blue Ocean Strategy.
Had he possessed.back then the knowledge, analytic tools, and
frameworks outlined in Blue Ocean Strategy, the awesome
growth in his business would have been even more phenomenal |
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During that gratifying journey, Bill was appointed Ethics Chairman
for the entire United States for his professional group. Initially,
he conducted Ethics seminars across the country, which resulted in
the first certified Code of Ethics in the medical device industry.
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After retiring from his business, Mr. Kimbrell has continued to stay
busy—he has written a
novel (publication pending), he and his wife have traveled all
over the world, including 3 mission trips to Southeast Asia, and he
has done extensive work with his church, Southern Hills United
Methodist Church, where he is a certified lay preacher and currently
the Lay Leader. In addition, he was hired as a motivational speaker
by a local college for talking to high school students about goal
setting and success, which he enjoys doing when he has time from his
busy consulting practice. He is also a longstanding member of the
Lexington Rotary Club, where he serves as co-editor of their
award-winning newsletter, The Wheelhorse, chairman of the
Eulogy Committee, chairman of the Asia Compassion Project, as well
as PolioPlus Coordinator for Rotary District 6740, working to
eradicate the horrid disease of polio in the world. |
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It was at age 23 when
Bill Kimbrell moved to Kentucky to start his own business, He had
nothing to his name but a wife and 2 babies in diapers. It was a
terribly meager beginning. When he retired 31 years later, he had
grown his business from zero to over $19.7
million with 5 offices covering 5 states. |
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If you are seeking someone with real life, gut-wrenching,
in-the-trenches experience with all the challenges, travails, and
joys of growing a business, Bill Kimbrell is certainly worthy of
your consideration…for he genuinely knows both bloody Red Oceans
and pristine, true Blue Oceans. |
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