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The Deficit of Alignment

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 16, 2023

The One Page Strategic Plan is a great tool to bring your organization into alignment.

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Topics: Core Purpose, One Page Strategic Plan, Clarity of Purpose, Alignment, Purpose, The One Thing, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose,, Nine Lies About Work, Meaning

Is A Recession Ahead?  How to Prepare for the Unexpected

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 19, 2022

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

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Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Purpose, preparation, Resilience, Growth Framework, Recession, Bootcamp

Who, Starts with Defining Meaning & Purpose

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 28, 2022

The driving force for any business starts with your people. Despite the Great Resignation, and fallout from people wanting to work from home, great people are the energy to grow your business.

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Topics: Clarity of Purpose, use of energy, Purpose, Vision & Purpose, Meaning

Hubert Jolly’s Best Buy Turnaround “Work is Love Made Visible.”

Posted by Douglas Wick on Tue, Jul 13, 2021

“Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life. And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.”

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Topics: Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose, Purpose, P-Squared (Passion & Purpose), Hubert Jolly, The Heart of Business

The Leaders Role – Mercenary or Mission Driven?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 29, 2020

During challenging times you discover a lot about yourself and the people you work with.

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Topics: People, People Decisions, leadership, Purpose, Effective Leadership, Leadership Decisions, Coronavirus, COVID19

Leadership – What’s Your Motive?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 6, 2020

Patrick Lencioni’s, feels he should have written his new book, The Motive, first.  He almost decided not to write it because one of the leaders he admires most, Alan Mullaly, disagreed with him on leadership involves suffering.

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Topics: leadership, Patrick Lencioni, leadership commitment, Purpose, Effective Leadership, Leadership Core Behavior, The Motive

Life Doesn’t Happen to you, It Happens For You

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 24, 2020

Jim Carrey is an entertainer, a comedian, and larger than life painter.

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Topics: Purpose, Goal Achievment

Purpose - The Dickens of Your One Thing – Merry Christmas

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 26, 2016

Christmas Eve I made time to watch Scrooge with Alistair Sims.  Which I have now on DVD.  I almost know most of the lines by heart, since I’ve been watching it for so long.

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Topics: Purpose, The One Thing, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose,, Merry Christmas

What Inspires You?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 24, 2016

My first real job out of college challenged me.

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Topics: People, Clarity of Purpose, Purpose

Purpose - The Dickens of Your One Thing

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 18, 2016

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. 

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Topics: One Thing, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose, Purpose

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