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How Do You Measure Up – Four Decisions

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 21, 2017

Small to mid-size business require Four Decisions to achieve sustainable growth. 

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Topics: Four Decisions, How Does Your Business Measure Up, Four Decisions Needs Assesment

Your Expectations Impact You and Your Team

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 17, 2017


Several decades ago, three teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area were selected for a research project on teacher expectations.

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Strategic Discipline Simplified – Priority, Metrics, Meeting Rhythms

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 14, 2017

“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.”

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Cadence of Accountability, meeting rhythms, priority, Execution, Key Metrics

What’s Working What’s Not – Monthly Meeting

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 10, 2017

In our Gazelles and Strategic Discipline’s Monthly Meetings there’s a segment of the meeting dedicated to What’s Working and What’s Not.

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, monthly meetings, 4 Disciplines of Execution, What's Working & What's Not

Leadership Core Behavior – Productive Paranoia

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 7, 2017

In Great by Choice Jim Collins asks and answers: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not?

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Topics: Great by Choice, Productive Paranoia, Effective Leadership, Leadership Core Behavior, Core Behaviors, Leadership Decisions

End of construction. Thank you for your patience

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 3, 2017

I grew up in Wisconsin.

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Topics: Topgrading, Topgrading, People Decisions,, People Development, Talent Review, Growing Your People

Why I Decided to Hire a Coach

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 31, 2017

A CHANCE MEETING

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Topics: Coach Advisor, Catalyst, business coaching, Testimonial

Topgrading Competency Interview – Uncover Candidates Key Data

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jul 27, 2017

We’re in the process of interviewing two very qualified candidates for the position of Operations Resource at a supply chain management company, World Class Industries.

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Topics: People, People Decisions, Topgrading, The Right People, Core Competencies, Tandem Interview

Drama Triangle Inhibits Productivity; Limits Employee Engagement

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 24, 2017

“THE MINUTE WE BEGIN TO THINK WE HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, WE FORGET THE QUESTIONS.”

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Topics: People, Process/Productivity Drivers, The Coaching Habit, Drama Triangle

What Are You Exactly Saying Yes To

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jul 20, 2017

Last blog, FOCUS  - Beware the Busy Manager, we shared a 2002 Harvard Business Review article of the same name.  The research conducted indicates only 10% of managers have the right focus and energy to work on the stuff that truly matters.

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Topics: quarterly meetings, The Coaching Habit, Quarterly Plans, Short Term vs. Long Term Achieving

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The Strategic Discipline Blog focuses on midsize business owners with a ravenous appetite to improve his or her leadership skills and business results.

Our 3 disciplines include:

- Priorities
- Metrics
- Meeting Rhythms

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