Driven leaders too frequently downplay the importance of Culture and the soft issues around People, that include Strategy elements like Core Values and Core Purpose.
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Topics: Core Values, strategy, Business Culture, strategy decisions, Above the Line, Culture
When you’ve led your team to 7 Super Bowls, winning 5 of them, your record of accomplishment speaks for itself.
Read MoreTopics: Core Values, People, leadership meetings, The Four Agreements
Topics: Core Values, People, People Decisions, Patrick Lencioni, Jim Collins, strategy, Mission to Mars, The Ideal Team Player
Great Brands Start Inside – Denise Lee Yohn (Atlanta Growth Summit)
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Jun 6, 2016
Topics: Core Values, People, Core Purpose, Growth Summit, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Great Brands
Topics: Core Values, hiring decisions, recruiting
We’ve discussed how innovation occurs in your business previously in What's Your Innovation Process Look Like?
Topics: employee engagement, Core Values, employee performance, Pearsons Law
Four Decision Growth Tools – Strategy Yields Top Line Revenue Growth
Posted by Douglas 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
May 1996, Paul O’Neil, (discussed in One Thing: Are Meeting Rhythms Keystone Habits?) had been at Alcoa for a decade. His leadership is studied at Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government, he’s mentioned as a candidate for commerce secretary or secretary of defense, the employees and union give him high marks. Alcoa’s stock price has risen over 200%. He’s an acknowledged success.
Topics: Business Growth, Top Priority, Core Values, habits, Business Culture, Keystone Habit
Core Values in Candidate Selection – Zappos “Are You Lucky?”
Posted by Douglas Wick on Thu, Aug 14, 2014
I’m on vacation this week and decided to repost two blogs that I feel have a message that needs to be repeated. The following blog is from February 6th, 2014. People as noted in Jim Collins Good to Great are the #1 factor in business success. Making sure you are hiring the right people is critical to ensuring your business success. Rockefeller Habits best practices demand creating Core Values. How do you use those Core Values? If you’re not using them to develop questions to determine if you have the right candidates to fit your culture, you should consider developing them. Here’s an example from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on how to use Core Values as they do to discover whether potential employees are a good fit in their culture.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, Core Values, People, Bone Marrow Transplant, hiring decisions, Mono Somy 7, Best Business Practices, Michelle Wick
Balance - Core Values/Purpose and Big Hair Audacious Goals
Posted by Douglas 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