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The Final Lie to Achieving Our One Thing: Big Is Bad.

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 28, 2015

Do you remember the movie City Slickers?  

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Topics: One Thing, Top Priority, Annual Plan, priority, quarterly plan

Customer Commonality - Leadership

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Dec 24, 2015

Three weeks ago I was invited to facilitate a new customer’s Annual Planning.  They’d been a long follower of the Rockefeller Habits implementing the principles on their own for nearly ten years. They felt they might be at a crossroads, anticipating they could breakthrough and achieve greater success with the help of a Gazelles Coach.  It was an honor to facilitate their meeting and help provide some additional insight into the nuances of Verne Harnish’s principles and the book Scaling Up.

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Topics: Discipline, leadership, Leadership Team, Strength Based Leadership

Lie # 5 A Balanced Life - The Solution - Counterbalance

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Dec 23, 2015

It’s a common theme this time of year.  We get out of balance chasing the spirit of Christmas, giving presents. 

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Topics: One Thing, Balanced Priorities, Balanced Metrics, Counter balance

LIE #4 – Willpower is Always on Will-Call

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 14, 2015

“Willpower is like gas in your car... . When you resist something tempting, you use some up. The more you resist, the emptier your tank gets, until you run out of gas.” Kathleen Vohs Prevention magazine, 2009

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Topics: One Thing, priorities, productivity, habits

BIG LIE #3 – Myth of Self Discipline

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Dec 10, 2015

Do you recognize this person? 

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Topics: consistently execute, habits, Execution

The Big Lie - Multitasking

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 7, 2015

Multitasking is a lie.

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The Six Lies Between You and Success

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 30, 2015

In The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results we shared a remarkable video on the chain reaction that results when one domino falls on to another. 

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Gratitude – Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Nov 25, 2015

Thanksgiving always makes me reflect on all the things in my life I am thankful for.  Most of all I’m thankful just to be here.  If you’ve don’t know my story read Bone Marrow Transplant Update – Last Week’s Clinic Visit or any of the blog accounts either under the Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Bone Marrow Transplant browse blog by tags in the left hand column of this blog.

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Topics: Thankful

Two Recommendations for Annual Planning

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 23, 2015

The Scaling Up Workshops we do in the fourth quarter as Gazelles coaches serve as a tune-up to the work we engage our customers in for 2016 Annual Planning.

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Topics: quarterly meetings, Annual Plan, quarterly plan

How Your Customer Makes the Decision to Purchase - Adele Revella Dallas Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Nov 19, 2015

What happened?

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Topics: Customer Feedback, Core Customer, Your Core Customer, WHO, Customer needs, customer and employee feedback

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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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