How well do you get things done? Do you get your daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly priorities completed on time? How well do your people do at this?
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Topics: Discipline, priorities, rituals, precision and specificity
One of my clients got me involved in Sports World, a non-profit organization that speaks to students about making positive choices. In preparing for our second effort in my area I’ve recognized how powerful their message is even to business.
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Topics: Discipline, priorities, rituals, habits, top priorities
If you’re an athlete or have watched sporting events you know that it’s recommended to stretch and jog before engaging in strenuous activity. Does it make sense that you should train your people to do the same thing in your work environment?
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Topics: People, productivity, rhythm, routine
Last blog, Tortoise or Hare, Which Discipline do you Follow, we discussed three fundamental principles for sustaining high performance. Let’s look at the first principle, that we cannot expect growth or improvement in any dimension of our lives without intentionally and regularly challenging our current capacity.
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Topics: leadership, use of energy, stress
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Topics: employee performance, human behavior, rhythm, The Power of Full Engagement
I’m on vacation this week and thought I’d direct you to a couple of blogs and an interesting video that may directly or indirectly offend some people. I thought about discussing political correctness however that is a blog that could go on for quite some time and I’d miss my plane this afternoon. The blogs stress getting the right people and how discipline in choosing the right people can dramatically influence productivity.
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Topics: Discipline, productivity, The Right People
One of my clients reminded me this week of an important leadership lesson. Quit answering your subordinate’s questions. I’ve blogged on this before The Problem with being the Chief Problem Solver, yet it bears repeating. My client had one of his managers ask him “what should I do?” Many leaders and managers would immediately provide an answer. It’s fast, painless, and allows you to move on to your own issues. Yet what does that teach? What’s more what does it continue to do?
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Topics: Discipline, leadership, meeting rhythms, questions
Suppose you or one of your parents suffers from chronic hip pain caused by arthritis. Drugs to treat the pain no longer provide relief. The option becomes hip replacement surgery, invasive surgery that requires slicing open the thigh, wrenching the bone out of the socket, sawing off the arthritic end and replacing it with an implant. In addition recovery from this surgery is long and painful.
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Topics: Decision Paralysis, One Thing, Switch, Four Decisions
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Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Multipliers, Rockefeller Habits Checklist
In my recent blog “Few Set the Bar At A Level” and newsletter “Make Your People Accountable” we discussed Topgrading and the importance of developing scorecards for each of your company positions. This is important to raise expectations not only for new employees but your current staff as well. A recent blog from the Sales Benchmark Index points out the value in screening for A Players by using Topgrading’s Career History form with all candidates. Check out Does my initial application focus on 'A' players? to learn how the Career History form identifies potential A Players.
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Topics: A Players, Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop, Topgrading, Multipliers
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