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What Value Do You Offer to Support Your Pricing – Scaling Up Example

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 12, 2016

What is price based on?

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Topics: strategy, strategy decisions, Hermann Simon, Confessions of the Pricing Man, Pricing

Pricing – Your Achilles Heel?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Sep 8, 2016

Pricing. 

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Topics: strategy, strategy decisions, Hermann Simon, Pricing

Proactive or Reactive: How the Hedgehog Concept Changes Your Focus

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 5, 2016

Ask yourself a question about your business practices: 

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Topics: Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, Brand Promise Guarantee, Best in the World at

A Brand Promise and Guarantee I Bet My Life On

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Sep 1, 2016

What can you be the Best in the World at?

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Topics: The Inside Advantage, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, Brand Promise Guarantee, Positioning Systems Brand Promise, Sandbox

Double Bonus – Customer Discovers X Factor and Profit Per X

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 29, 2016

“I’m never coming back to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Doug!” 

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Topics: Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, X Factor, Scaling Up Workshops

HEDGEHOG CONCEPT Three Circles Signal Greatness

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 25, 2016

Would you like to find a predictor for your business achieving greatness?

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Topics: Good to Great, Core Purpose, Jim Collins, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise

PEOPLE – A Leader and Manager’s Responsibility

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 22, 2016

Saturday morning I received this quote from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in one of my inspirational emails,

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Topics: People, People/Relationship Drivers, One on One coaching

Taken Your Vacation Yet?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 15, 2016

This week I'm in Conneticut working with a new customer.  Because I left on Saturday I'm resharing a blog created and published on February 4th of this year.  As a Gazelles Certified Coach, Positioning Systems is committed to helping our customers discover their One Thing for the year and each subsequent quarter.  That's part of the work I'll be doing with my new customer on Monday and Tuesday this week. 

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Topics: productivity, One Thing, Vacation

Your BHAG Journey

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 11, 2016

Creating your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) as Jim Collins describes and shares, is an iterative process.  It rarely is achieved in a few meetings, or without completing several very important milestones for your business.  Included in these are these three elements of your Hedgehog Concept: Core Purpose, Profit Per X and Brand Promise.

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Topics: Core Purpose, The Inside Advantage, WHO WHAT HOW The Inside Advantage, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, BHAG

Leader or Manager

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 8, 2016

As an E-Myth Senior Business Coach for ten years I used the E-Myth resources and tools to help my small business customers apply the systems concept to build their business.

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Topics: leadership, manager, Business Vision, E-Myth Revisited, Vision, Performance Management

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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.

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