Scaling Up author Verne Harnish described Humanocracy, authors Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini, as one of the most insightful and game changing books for the future.
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Douglas A Wick
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Topics: People, People/Relationship Drivers, People Development, Humanocracy, Meritocracy
People Quotes – Building A Harmonious Culture of Accountability
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 26, 2020
The Result of getting the People Decision right in your business is a Harmonious Culture of Accountability. I love quotes. They inspire me.
Read MoreTopics: People, The Right People, First Who Then What
Working Relationships That Work is from my first E-Myth Management Module, as an E-Myth Coach.
Read MoreTopics: E-Myth Revisited, Relationships and Productivity, Worker Performance, Challenging Work
Topics: Great by Choice, SMaC Recipe, SMaC, Thrive in Uncertainty & Chaos
You’ve adjusted to the new normal. All the previous challenges to allow our employees to work from home have been erased by COVID19.
Read MoreTopics: employee performance, People, performance, human behavior performance, Discretionary Effort, Performance Management, Remote Workers
In Stillness Is the Key Ryan Holiday asks, “Isn’t the whole point of greatness that you’re freed from trivial rules and regulations? That you can do whatever you want?”
Read MoreTopics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Discipline Plan, routine sets you free, routine, Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key
Each day, after finishing work, I walk 2-miles. Usually I listen to an audible book pacing briskly through my neighborhood.
Read MoreTopics: Discipline, Innovation Process, Innovation, Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key
Topics: Discipline, routine, Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key
Define Your Future with a Forcing Function Press Release
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 24, 2020
My blog was delayed a week by a violent storm in Iowa called a derecho. It produced wind gusts of up to 140 mph. 21,000 of Alliant Energy's Linn County customers remained without power Wednesday night, according KCRG-TV9, ten days after the storm. With my power off, my sump pump couldn’t keep up with the water and my basement flooded. Forgive the delay in my blog. I’m still without Internet but plan to be consistent with my weekly blogs starting with this post.
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, Better communication, Think Like Amazon, Managing Dependencies, Forcing Function, Press Release
Our last several blogs I’ve encouraged you to read John Rossman’s Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader. Forcing Functions are a powerful technique used at Amazon to enforce a strategy, change, or to get a difficult project launched.
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, Meetings a Cadence of Accountability, Managment Systems, Think Like Amazon, Managing Dependencies, Forcing Function