It’s often the place I find new customers resist reviewing and working on.
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Great Brands Start Inside – Denise Lee Yohn (Atlanta Growth Summit)
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 6, 2016
Topics: Core Values, People, Core Purpose, Growth Summit, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Great Brands
My favorite Christmas Movie, and possibly my favorite movie of all time, stars Alistair Sims in Charles Dickens, “Christmas Carol.” Every Christmas Eve I make time to watch it. It doesn’t seem like Christmas without it.
Read MoreTopics: One Thing, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose, Purpose
My plan for this blog originally was the irony of freedom. The past three days working with an enthusiastic and dedicated group of leaders from a new customer who started with me in February for a private two day Rockefeller Habits Workshop. They’d previously attended the Four Decision Workshop in November.
Topics: quarterly meetings, Core Purpose, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, BHAG, Core Competencies, quarterly plan, Quarterly Victories
“Without a purpose any problem is too big.” Ernest C. Wilson, The Week that Changed the World.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Core Purpose, Built to Last, Jim Collins, Michelle Wick
Four Decision Growth Tools – Strategy Yields Top Line Revenue Growth
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Feb 12, 2015
Nothing affects your business more than the quality and timing of the decisions you make. In Execution or Bad Choices – Why Do Businesses Fail we examined the reason most businesses fail.
Topics: Business Growth, Core Values, Core Purpose, Strategy Statement, growth tools
Drive Versus Passion – Randy Komisar Las Vegas Growth Summit
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 10, 2014
Topics: Core Purpose, Growth Summit, Passion, Exponential Organization, MTP, The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Lif
What’s more important? Want to or how to?
Topics: Business Growth, People, Core Purpose, Business Culture
What’s your Core Purpose? We’ve discussed this subject several times, and it’s revealing that Greg McKeown in Essentialism speaks to it as well.
Topics: Decision-Making, Core Purpose, less is more, Clarity of Purpose
Balance - Core Values/Purpose and Big Hair Audacious Goals
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 15, 2014
One of my clients just lost a valued employee from their leadership team. One of the reasons she decided to leave was the pressure she felt from her boss to perform in sales. She had recently accepted a promotion to sales from her marketing position. This year she’d been working on a very large prospect that would very likely have topped the company’s previous best ever customer. She gotten them a commitment just not the full commitment that the company sales procedure outlines. It created conflict and anxiety as she worked to close them to a long term engagement.
Topics: Core Values, Core Purpose, Employee Evaluations, A Players, Business Culture, BHAG, Peformance Matix
Topics: Good to Great, Core Values, People, People Decisions, Core Purpose, Jim Collins