Most of us struggle to get out of our comfort zone. Yet it’s the one thing, done frequently that can dramatically transform our performance.
Strategic Discipline Blog
Douglas A Wick
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Toastmasters Mission (Core Purpose) is Clear – Is Yours?
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 28, 2014
Topics: Training, Leadership Training, leadership, training and education, Core Purpose
If you’ve found it challenging to find effective managers you’re not alone. Recent research by Gallup points to a number of glaring issues that may make you feel better about your management hiring success rate.
Topics: employee engagement, Business Growth, manager, training and education
Twelve exhausted athletes single file into the high school biology room of their new basketball coach. It’s the first week of basketball season. Entering a classroom is a unique experience for them. Practices are in the main auditorium of the high school. This is the first time they’ve ever been anywhere but the gym.
Topics: Business Growth, Strategic Discipline, habits, Business Culture, The Power of Habit
Topics: 4-3-2-1 formula for business growth, habits, The Power of Habit, routine, rockefeller habits 4-3-2-1 growth formula
Why Is Your Business The Way It Is? The Power of Habit
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 14, 2014
Topics: Business Growth, Aubrey Daniels, Discipline Plan, habits, The Power of Habit, routine
A recent article by McKinsey & Company, one of the most prestigious consulting firms, Why Leadership-Development Programs Fail, notes four major reasons leadership development programs fail. Many of the reasons focus directly on the leadership program.
Leadership training is more than just setting up programs to train and develop your future leaders. It begins with how you train your people to be leaders in your present operating disciplines. Let me share the four mistake areas from the article and share how Gazelles Coaches and Positioning Systems treat these to prevent leadership-development failures.
Topics: Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Leadership Training, leadership, training and education, Patrick Lencioni, Job Summary Scorecard
You and probably many business owners are virtually swimming in waves of data. Advances in technology and the Internet have made it easy to collect data on almost any subject and allow you, if willing, to collect measurements on any part of your business.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Decision-Making, E-Myth, Pearsons Law, metrics, measurement
As most of you may know a little over two years ago I was projected to be another statistic of cancer. With very slim odds (less than 10% initially) through some miraculous events my Acute Myeloid Leukemia found its way into remission. I received a bone marrow transplant from a generous donor in September of 2012. The road back hasn’t been easy. While my healing may be remarkable, in many ways this achievement may not be as difficult as what each of you face each and every day. Rather than diminish what was accomplished, this is to elevate what you and every other person on the planet faces as you work to accomplish each day.
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Switch, Discipline Plan, positive reinforcement, The Power of Full Engagement
If doing something once a day is good for business, does doing it twice double the impact?
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Best Business Practices, Leadership Team, daily huddle
MULTIPLIER EFFECT – FEWER PEOPLE, PAID MORE, HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Mar 27, 2014
When Jack Welsh was at GE he had a philosophy to have less people, paid more with a lower total wage cost.
Topics: Business Growth, Leadership Training, leadership, Multipliers, productivity, Leadership Team