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Topics: Leadership Training, Leadership DNA, Mastering Leadership, Leadership Circle Profile, Scaling Leadership
Topics: Innovation Process, Innovation, Strategy - How, Strategy Creation, Play Bigger, Category Design
Topics: People, People Decisions, manager, People Development, People and Process, Exit Interviews
Topics: Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni, meetings, Meeting Conflicts, better decisions through conflict
In this Restaurant the Staff Comes First – Enlightened Hospitality
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 15, 2022
Scaling any business is challenging. In Masters of Scale Reid Hoffman shares the story of Danny Meyer, who first opened Union Square Cafe in 1985, and whose restaurant company now extends beyond just restaurants to include Shake Shack, operational consulting, multifaceted catering and events business, Union Square Events, and a growth fund, under the umbrella of Enlightened Hospitality Investments (EHI).
Read MoreTopics: customer service, priority, Scale Up, Reid Hoffman, Enlightened Hospitality, Masters of Scale
Mysteries of Culture – Masters of Scale – Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 8, 2022
“STRATEGY IS THE PROMISE THAT CULTURE MUST DELIVER Nature is clear. So is business: evolve or die.” ~ Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch, Curt Coffman, and Kathie Sorensen
Read MoreTopics: Business Culture, Company Culture, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Culture, Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch
Topics: business coaching, support, Coaching, Scale Up Coaching, 3HAG WAY, Metronomics
In The Fuel for High Performing Teams, we shared the critical factor for driving high performance. Culture has been said to eat strategy for lunch.
Read MoreTopics: human behavior, Q12, human behavior performance, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey, Culture
In Innovation Obstacle - Is Your Team “Licking the Cookie?” we shared how Intuit drives innovation by incentivizing its team.
Read MoreTopics: People, The Right People, Innovation, Bonus and Incentives, Unlocking the Customer Value Chain, Thales Teixeira
Topics: BHAG, Innovation Process, Innovation, The Obstacle Is the Way