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Five Conditions Under Which Your People Will Execute Well!

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Jun 21, 2021

Jim Collins and Bill Lazier in Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company have some news for you.

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Topics: People, Jim Collins, Execution, People and Process, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, Tactical Excellence, Vision & Purpose

BE 2.0 – The Number One Metric You’re NOT Measuring

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, May 31, 2021

“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

Six Methods Entrepreneurs Can Use to Improve Your Mental Health

Posted by Cristi Waterson on Mon, Mar 15, 2021

Thursday last week one of my customers leadership teams addressed the issue of working from home.

Work and home activities have blended into one, challenging many by causing stress and mental health issues. How can we help our people? Are we victims as well?

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Topics: People, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Mental Health

Monty Moran’s People, Leadership, and Priority Lessons

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 8, 2021

Verne Harnish hosted another virtual Summit with 3 speakers (click the link to watch the replay) on Wednesday, February 24th.

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Topics: People, People/Relationship Drivers, leadership, priority, Effective Leadership, Chipotle, Vulnerability, Monty Moran, Love is Free. Gauc is Extra

Results – Blaming Others Achieves Nothing

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 15, 2021

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him/her, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

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Topics: People, Effective Leadership, Mastering Leadership, People Development, Leadership Core Behavior

Humanocracy – Build a Meritocratic Organization

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 9, 2020

“Mediocre people don’t like high-achievers – and high-achievers don’t like mediocre people.” Nick Saban, Alabama football coach.

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Topics: People, People Decisions, The Right People, People Development, Growing Your People, Humanocracy, Meritocracy

Humanocracy – Bureaucracy Threatens Meritocracy

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 2, 2020

Scaling Up author Verne Harnish described Humanocracy, authors Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini, as one of the most insightful and game changing books for the future.

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Topics: People, People/Relationship Drivers, People Development, Humanocracy, Meritocracy

People Quotes – Building A Harmonious Culture of Accountability

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 26, 2020

The Result of getting the People Decision right in your business is a Harmonious Culture of Accountability. I love quotes. They inspire me.

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Topics: People, The Right People, First Who Then What

Elevate Remote Workers Performance

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 5, 2020

You’ve adjusted to the new normal. All the previous challenges to allow our employees to work from home have been erased by COVID19.

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Topics: employee performance, People, performance, human behavior performance, Discretionary Effort, Performance Management, Remote Workers

Will Technology Replace People?

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Sep 7, 2020

It’s Labor Day 2020.

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Topics: People, People Decisions, Execution, Work Environment, Technology

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