Strategic Discipline Blog
Douglas A Wick
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Nine Traits Define Mind-Set & Character Traits for Hiring Managers
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 21, 2023
Topics: Culture of Discipline, hiring decisions, Company Culture, Business Discipline, Hiring, Danny Meyer, Setting the Table, High Performance Culture
Topics: Culture of Discipline, human behavior performance, Company Culture, Business Discipline, High Performance Culture, 1% Plan, 99% Behavior, Behavior Never Lies
Topics: human behavior, hiring decisions, human behavior performance, Hiring, Danny Meyer, Setting the Table, High Performance Culture, Standards of Excellence, Hiring Rule
Topics: human behavior, human behavior performance, Danny Meyer, Standards of Excellence, Success Forces, Clean Your Desk, Joe Sugarman
In Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business, Danny Meyer shares a lesson he learned as he struggled to get his team to meet his standards of excellence.
Read MoreTopics: Culture of Discipline, Company Culture, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Danny Meyer, Setting the Table, High Performance Culture
Paint Your Financial Picture - Spencer Sheinin - Metronome’s Tip Top Summit 2023
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 17, 2023
Accounting reporting is painful. At Metronome’s Tip Top Business Growth Summit, Spencer Sheinin shared ideas on how to put your financials in a format that can be more easily understood and acted upon.
Read MoreTopics: Power of One, The Power of One, Leaders Are Learners, Metronome's Tip Top Business Growth Summit 2023, Financial Reporting, Financial Picture, Spencer Sheinin
Arlene Dickinson – Four Messages Leaders Need to Share With Their Team - Metronome’s Tip Top Summit 2023
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 10, 2023
Topics: leadership, leadership commitment, Leaders Are Learners, Metronome's Tip Top Business Growth Summit 2023
Create an Invincible Company, Alex Osterwalder – Metronome’s Tip Top Summit 2023
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 26, 2023
Topics: Innovation Process, Innovation, Building Invincible Companies, Alex Osterwalder, Exploration, Exploitation
Elevate Your Team - Robert Glazer - Metronome’s Tip Top Summit 2023
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 19, 2023
Topics: Elevate, Robert Glazer, Metronome's Tip Top Business Growth Summit 2023, Four Elements of Capacity Building, Intellectual Capacity
Customer-Centric Digital Disruption - Thales Teixeria - Metronome’s Tip Top Summit 2023
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 12, 2023
Thales Teixeria, author of Unlocking the Customer Value Chain shared this “Did You Know” slide.
Costco: Costco makes a profit entirely due to its membership fees.
Grocery stores: Supermarkets get more profit % from brands who buy shelf space and cap ends than they do from the products they sell.
P&C insurance: Pay $100 per click yet still feel they get an efficient ROI!
FedEx: Has very slim margins. FedEx absolutely, positively must have systems that work consistently. One phone call complaint, eliminates Profit!
Apple: Like Dell Computers Apple receives your payment before paying for the parts to make your iPhone.
RyanAir: A $15 international plane ticket is profitable because RyanAir makes so much on upgrades from passengers.
Read MoreTopics: customer satisfaction metrics, Unlocking the Customer Value Chain, Thales Teixeira, Innovation-Customer Needs Alignment, Metronome's Tip Top Business Growth Summit 2023, Decoupling