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Candor Versus Honesty – Braintrust at Creativity Inc.

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 21, 2015

Explosive!  That’s the impact the Collective Intelligence segment of your Gazelles/Rockefeller Habits weekly meeting rhythm can be for your business. 

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Topics: weekly meetings, collective intelligence, Pixar, Creativity Inc.

Eliminate This Word From Your Vocabulary

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Sep 17, 2015

Have you ever invited someone to your home, an event, or a party and had them respond with, “I’ll try to get there?

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Topics: People Decisions

Take No Short Cuts to Hiring

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

Your business is growing.  Your capacity and desire to manage the company is not only beyond your capacity it’s also something you don’t enjoy.  You’re the rainmaker for your business, and you love selling and the relationship aspect of the business.  The details don’t interest you.  Better to leave these to your administration team.

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Topics: A Players, Topgrading, hiring decisions, recruiting, Snap Shot Page

Trust the Process…Or Not. Toy Story 2 Lesson

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

“Disaster is the word he used.” 

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Topics: Process/Productivity Drivers, Innovation Process, Systems & Process, Toy Story 2, Creativity Inc.

Good Ideas or Good People?

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

Over the Labor Day Weekend I watched Toy Story 2 again. 

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Topics: People, People Decisions, The Right People

Practice the Discipline of Collective of Intelligence

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Sep 3, 2015

The most productive and valuable piece of the weekly meeting is Collective Intelligence.  Collective Intelligence is a benchmark in every weekly meeting to solve bottlenecks using the collective genius of the team.  CI is perhaps the greatest value of the weekly meeting rhythm.

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Topics: weekly meetings, collective intelligence, People

Tools to Measure Employee Performance

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 31, 2015

In our last blog Amazon’s Culture Flaws? we shared the NY Times article Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. Remarks from employees suggest increased pressure in Amazon’s environment to perform. 

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Topics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, leadership, A Players, Leadership Team

Amazon’s Culture Flaws?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 27, 2015

Is it possible to balance high performance in the workplace with a culture that provides personal liberty, freedom and work-life balance?

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Topics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, metrics, measurement, How the Mighty Fall,

Fix What Bugs You – A Priority Requires Doing the Right Things Right

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 24, 2015

Combining ideas from the Growth Summit, celebrating a winning theme and initiating a new one can be a great way to experience growth in your business.

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Addition by Subtraction – Great Game of Business Story

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 20, 2015

A Culture of Accountability is the outcome of getting People Decision right in your organization. 

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Topics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, People Decisions, Great Game of Business

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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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