Are you open to learn from your errors? If you’re open to learn from your mistakes, often they can launch success and opportunities that would never have occurred without accepting failure.
Strategic Discipline Blog
Douglas A Wick
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Topics: Employee Feedback, themes, Culture of Discipline, Company Culture, Scaling Up Verne Harnish
Why, What, How of a Weekly Meeting and Meeting Rhythms
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Apr 30, 2015
Last blog Why Meeting Rhythms are a Critical Strategic Discipline we captured why weekly meetings are so important, providing a little tease on why, what, and how to conduct this centerpiece of aligning discipline that stirs growth in your business.
Topics: Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback, weekly meetings, meeting rhythms, Best Business Practices
Why Meeting Rhythms are a Critical Strategic Discipline
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 27, 2015
Topics: weekly meetings, Business Growth, Balanced Priorities, meeting rhythms, Business Dashboards, pattern recognition, Radical Change, Radical Stability
Topics: employee engagement, Strength Based Leadership, Q12, First Break All the Rules, Performance Management, Communication
Saturday, my son Noah, performed a solo and in a quintet at Solo and Ensemble, at Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Watching him perform reminded me of the irony of freedom. It also reminded me of a quote I’ve used several times in my blog, that the will to win isn’t as important as the will to prepare to win.
Topics: Discipline, Culture of Discipline, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, commitment, preparation
My plan for this blog originally was the irony of freedom. The past three days working with an enthusiastic and dedicated group of leaders from a new customer who started with me in February for a private two day Rockefeller Habits Workshop. They’d previously attended the Four Decision Workshop in November.
Topics: quarterly meetings, Core Purpose, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, BHAG, Core Competencies, quarterly plan, Quarterly Victories
“Without a purpose any problem is too big.” Ernest C. Wilson, The Week that Changed the World.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Core Purpose, Built to Last, Jim Collins, Michelle Wick
How can your company go from Good to Great? We’ve been exploring this through 12 questions Jim Collins offered his Australian business owners and Growth Summit attendees at Melbourne this February.
Topics: Good to Great, Jim Collins, BHAG, 12 Questions, Stop Doing List
Jim Collins 12 Questions - Take Your Company from Good to Great # 6-9
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 6, 2015
Have you wanted to move your company from Good to Great? Jim Collins offered 12 Questions to help you do exactly that at the recent Australian Growth Summit.
Topics: Good to Great, Great by Choice, 10Xers, Fire bullets then Cannonballs, Productive Paranoia, Jim Collins 12 Questions, Clock Building, Return on Luck, How the Mighty Fall,
Take Your Company from Good to Great – Jim Collins 12 Questions: #3-5
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Apr 2, 2015
Topics: Good to Great, Business Growth, Jim Collins, Hedgehog Concept, Stockdale Paradox, 20 Mile March