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Core Values

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 7, 2008

“I don’t need core values, I’m just a small business, why do I need to spend time working on core values?”

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Topics: Core Values

Priorities

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 4, 2008

Answer for me today what is your #1 priority? Do you know it? Did you have to think about it, or did you just finish working on it? 

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Topics: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Page Strategic Plan

Litmus Test

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Jul 30, 2008

Last blog I mentioned one of my clients who is in the business of selling copiers. He’s struggled for a long time with his sales process and has been continually refining it to get it down to a system he can depend on. He’s done several things in this area including developing a recruiting and hiring process to spot better performers, and purchasing a sales software program so he can closely monitor his staff and provide them with reminders to ensure follow up is being conducted. Performance has always been the bottom line and if you know anything about business to business sales it can be a wild roller coaster unless your people are following a regimented routine to each day work on getting new customers. 

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Topics: litmus test

Letter from The Flood of 2008

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Jul 30, 2008

    


After much delay, the following is a letter from my co-worker Troy Simon's wife recounting the days leading up to and events surrounding the loss of their home during the June flooding in Cedar Rapids:

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Churn

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jul 24, 2008

A couple of my clients are having issues with their employees right now. One of them a copy sales company has had issues with performance with his sales people and has been continually working to find the right balance of stress and nurturing to get production. More on that in the next blog.

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Topics: Good to Great

Oscillate

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Jul 18, 2008

The dictionary defines oscillate as: 1.to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does. 2. To vary or vacillate between differing beliefs, opinions, conditions, etc.: He oscillates regularly between elation and despair.

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Topics: consistently execute

Business News Suggestion

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Jul 18, 2008


Each week as business owners we have a lot of priorities and seldom do we consciously plan to get updates on what’s new in business. As the leader of your team I admire you if you are currently proactive each week and perhaps even each day to keep up on the country and global economy, if you subscribe to any number of the options available for business magazines and receive feeds and newsletters from sources you respect.
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Topics: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits

Stress Lessons from Apollo 13

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sat, Jul 12, 2008

Having just returned from two weeks of vacation and having read the book Stress for Success by Jim Loehr [he co-authored The Power of Full Engagement with Tony Schwartz, a book I highly recommend], I can tell you I learned first hand the value of having too much relaxation as opposed to too much stress.

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Topics: stress

Cedar Rapids Flood

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jun 26, 2008


Again I want to thank you for reading this blog, and to the many clients and friends who offered their support to community of Cedar Rapids. My neighbor took some pictures from a plane during the height of the flooding while her husband was taking flying lessons. If you’d like to view these you can see them here

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E-Myth Mastery Challenges

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Jun 25, 2008

As a Certified E-Myth Coach for over ten years I’m well aware of the value E-Myth Mastery provided business owners with the opportunity to create systems for their business. The Program provided step-by-step documented processes to transform a business with very little structure into an organized, systematic, policy driven company that would produce consistent, predictable results.   What’s wrong with that? Absolutely nothing, yet many clients never achieved this degree of success. The challenge often became that the owner became so absorbed in developing systems that he replaced the tactical work in the business with the strategic work ON the business. Many an owner became disillusioned with the process of E-Myth Mastery due to this substitutional approach.    One form of tyranny [working in the business had been supplanted by another [working ON].

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Topics: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, emyth

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