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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

Who has your next customer? Brandscaping: Unleash the Power of Partnerships – Dallas Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 16, 2015

Last Wednesday, at the Cedar Rapids Scaling Up Workshop, seven leadership team members from Raining Rose filed in to the large Conference Room at Bankers Trust.  They were there because they responded to an email that Bankers Trust had sent to their commercial accounts, inviting them to the event they sponsored. 

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The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 9, 2015

A foundational principal we will teach at the Scaling Up Workshop on Wednesday at our November 11th Scaling Up Workshop in Cedar Rapids, IA is One Thing.  We recommend that when choosing a priority you choose One Thing for the year or your quarter to choose to focus on.  It’s based on the principal that less is more.

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Topics: Decision-Making, One Thing, priority, time management

Communication is Leadership – Kip Tindell Dallas Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Nov 5, 2015

Verne Harnish has long lauded Kip Tindell’s book Uncontainable as one of the best business books he’s ever read. Perhaps it was my frame of mind or his voice, but I must confess that when I began listening to the audio version of Uncontainable I was less than impressed.  Kip is the voice on the audio version and I simply found myself losing interest as he continued to preach his philosophy on The Container Store and how he influenced its growth.

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Topics: Growth Summit, Conscious Capitalism, Uncontainable

Twice the Work in Half the Time: Scrum – Dallas Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 2, 2015

“Plans are Worthless, Planning is Everything!” General Dwight D Eisenhower.

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Topics: Process/Productivity Drivers, Growth Summit, productivity, Execution

Customer Funded Business – John Mullins Dallas Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Oct 29, 2015

John Mullins knowledge and work at Harvard Business Review (HBR) have been discussed here previously in Cash – How Fast Can Your Company Afford to Grow?  His book, The Customer Funded Business was the topic of his presentation at the Dallas Growth Summit.

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Topics: Growth Summit, Cash

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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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