“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
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Topics: habits, Winning Habit, Discipline, Discipline Plan, Businesss Disciplines
How would you grade your decision-making capability? How is your leadership team at making decisions?
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How important do you value discipline in your organization? How much thought if any do you give to it?
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Great by Choice, Discipline Plan, Culture of Discipline, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Scaling Up Verne Harnish
Practical Discipline #3 Where to Put Your Best People: Good To Great
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Dec 18, 2014
Topics: Good to Great, Business Growth, People, People Decisions, Discipline Plan, Practical Discipline #3
How do you build a business model from Good to Great? The answer while not popular is fundamental. We dislike, resist and simply refuse to want more of it in our life: DISCIPLINE
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Discipline Plan, Rockefeller Habits Checklist
Why Is Your Business The Way It Is? The Power of Habit
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 14, 2014
Topics: Business Growth, Aubrey Daniels, Discipline Plan, habits, The Power of Habit, routine
As most of you may know a little over two years ago I was projected to be another statistic of cancer. With very slim odds (less than 10% initially) through some miraculous events my Acute Myeloid Leukemia found its way into remission. I received a bone marrow transplant from a generous donor in September of 2012. The road back hasn’t been easy. While my healing may be remarkable, in many ways this achievement may not be as difficult as what each of you face each and every day. Rather than diminish what was accomplished, this is to elevate what you and every other person on the planet faces as you work to accomplish each day.
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Switch, Discipline Plan, positive reinforcement
The greatest marketer and innovator on the planet returns to his former company, Apple, and what is his first step? In Great by Choice, Jim Collins uses Apple as one of the comparison companies. His research looked at 1972-2002, and Steve Jobs didn’t return to Apple until 1997. But consider Jobs’ first move:
Topics: Discipline, Great by Choice, Discipline Plan, best practices of growth companies, Best Business Practices, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Steve Jobs
Balance Subjectivity & Objectivity – Required Strategic Disciplines
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Sep 9, 2010
Balance is extremely important in life and running a business. When we set goals we can concentrate so much in one direction that something extremely important gets lost or eroded in the process. At one time Delta Airlines worked hard to get their planes to arrive on time. The consequence of their focus on delivering this outcome resulted in countless passenger bags not reaching their destination on time. One obsession hurt performance in another aspect of the business, customer service. It’s like a tug of war. If there’s no one resisting on the other side there’s a loss of balance.
There is no more important place for business to balance then subjectivity and objectivity in operating your company. You need both to run a successful business, yet too frequently the business is off balance, relying on one over the other. It’s a high level aspect of business that I feel too frequently business owners and managers overlook or simply don’t recognize.
Subjectivity is the emotional aspect of your business. It’s the squishy part that propels you forward. It’s your commitment to a cause, quality, production, BHAG, Brand Promise, the reasons you are in business, including your core values and purpose.
Topics: Discipline Plan, One Page Strategic Plan, Balance