I’m on vacation this week and decided to repost two blogs that I feel have a message that needs to be repeated. The following blog is from February 6th, 2014. People as noted in Jim Collins Good to Great are the #1 factor in business success. Making sure you are hiring the right people is critical to ensuring your business success. Rockefeller Habits best practices demand creating Core Values. How do you use those Core Values? If you’re not using them to develop questions to determine if you have the right candidates to fit your culture, you should consider developing them. Here’s an example from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on how to use Core Values as they do to discover whether potential employees are a good fit in their culture.
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Topics:
Strategic Discipline,
Core Values,
People,
Bone Marrow Transplant,
hiring decisions,
Mono Somy 7,
Best Business Practices,
Michelle Wick
I’m on vacation this week so I’m reposting a couple of blogs that contain messages that warrant repeating. Pearson’s Law, originally written 12-15-08, exemplifies the importance of metrics and Positioning Systems Strategic Discipline formula. It’s largely reprinted with a few minor additions. Do you want to see dramatic improvement in your people’s performance? Read further.
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Topics:
employee engagement,
Accountability,
employee performance,
Business Dashboards,
Pearsons Law
This week I reintroduce the concept of SMaC to one of my customers in our Trimester Planning meeting. SMaC stands for Simple, Methodical and Consistent, as presented in Great by Choice by Jim Collins. I was struck by the irony SMaC reveals about successful companies. Most everyone acknowledges how difficult it is to accomplish change. Yet in Great by Choice their research discovered that poor performing companies change frequently, while great companies change less often. At a scale of 4 to 1.
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Topics:
Discipline,
Great by Choice,
10Xers,
change,
SMaC Recipe,
SMaC
What’s your Core Purpose? We’ve discussed this subject several times, and it’s revealing that Greg McKeown in Essentialism speaks to it as well.
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Topics:
Decision-Making,
Core Purpose,
less is more,
Clarity of Purpose
Essentialism, by Greg McKeown, subtitle is The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. This blog title is a rephrasing to emphasis the issue.
Topics:
Discipline,
less is more
The book Essentialism confronts the notion that we can have it all while supporting the idea less is more. There is a common theme that underlies its principles. It’s a requirement for success in any endeavor. That prerequisite is discipline.
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Topics:
Business Growth,
Strategic Discipline,
Great by Choice,
One Page Strategic Plan,
less is more,
strategy,
Southwest Airlines
Have you ever had someone tell you to slow down?
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Topics:
less is more,
Jim Collins,
Multipliers
You can expect something, but until it happens you never truly know how you are going to feel.
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Topics:
Discipline,
People,
Give and Take,
Givers and Takers,
Michelle Wick
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