Strategic Discipline Blog

“One central idea I try to communicate in my courses is that history is the study of choices. It follows no predetermined script. History is determined by the choices made by people both famous and unknown.”

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Topics: One Thing, People, People Decisions, Jim Collins, The Right People, Key Metrics, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0

This blog originally appeared on March 18^th, 2009. I was married at the time, and my son Josh was 12. There are many more distractions available to us now. COVID made us learn to appreciate our relationships more, while irreparably displacing how we interact with others. Since this, I’ve gotten divorced, survived cancer, and seen my last two sons graduate from college.

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Topics: One Thing, Focus, Relationships and Productivity, Distraction

In Love is Free. Guac is Extra: How Vulnerability, Empowerment, and Curiosity Built an Unstoppable Team, Monte Moran, Chipotle’s Co CEO from 2009 - 2016 dedicates an entire chapter (7) to priorities.

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Topics: One Thing, Top Priority, priorities, The Right People, Company Culture, Monty Moran, Love is Free. Gauc is Extra

What’s the shape of your business?

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Topics: Business Growth, One Thing, Scale Up, Scaling Up Business Growth Workshop

“John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.'” – Paul McCartney

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Topics: One Thing, Marketing, strategy, strategy decisions, Scale Up Summit San Antonio, Joe Polish, Dean Graziosi

There are a lot movies, criticism, and accolades for Steve Job, yet none can deny his ability to innovate. 

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Topics: One Thing, Organizational Structure, Verne Harnish, Scaling Up Verne Harnish, Scale Up Summit San Antonio

How often do you invest time making the simple complicated?

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, One Thing, strategy, Direction, Happiness

Balance is an important part of the equation in your business. 

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Topics: One Thing, Balanced Priorities, Balance, Counter balance

On Wednesday last week, I delivered a Toastmasters speech including the following admonishment: Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven’t committed yourself to living by the truth that your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.

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Topics: Accountability, One Thing, Success, Attitude, High Self-Esteem

Prior to this blog series on Scrum our Strategic Discipline Blog dedicated a number of blogs to Gary Keller’s The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. In the Final Lie to Achieving Our One Thing: Big Is Bad, we looked at how by fearing big success, you either avoid or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.  Size is an issue if it limits your belief you can’t or won’t achieve what you desire.

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Topics: One Thing, Process/Productivity Drivers, People/Relationship Drivers, productivity, Relationship Drivers, Scrum, Teams