In less than 24 hours ten days ago, from Friday to Saturday the following day, my world spun 180 degrees or more. (See A Personal Story – Can You Sell Your Business?)
Strategic Discipline Blog
Douglas A Wick
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Topics: Discipline, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, quarterly meetings, Strategic Discipline, change, Compounding
Imagine the people who worked around you were responsible for your life. Living or dying literally could be in their hands and their ability to concentrate and remain focused on the right things might make that type of difference?
Topics: Accountability, employee performance, People, Topgrading
Topics: priorities, questions, metrics, daily huddle
Topics: Strategic Discipline, leading indicators, key performance indicators, Key Metrics
How simple is it to make a dashboard? I’m waiting for the diagnosis from my biopsy. Still the University of Iowa has displayed on a bulletin board in my room a dashboard with some of the vitally important metrics for my condition.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, priority, leading indicators, Business Dashboards, metrics, lagging indicators
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, leukemia, key performance indicators, Business System, Built to Sell
Last blog we discussed how as your company grows and expands it seems harder and harder to communicate your vision. People at the tactical level of your company often don’t know what the strategy for your business is. In fact they don’t know a lot of things that are important for them to know about your business. There’s often a huge gap on how they work with prospects and customers due to poor communication of your vision and strategy, let alone company policies.
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, One Page Strategic Plan, priorities, metrics, Alignment
As your business grows does it seem like it’s been harder and harder to keep everyone on the same page? The larger you get does it feel like the vision and strategy you had that seemed so clear has become foggier to you and the people you lead?
Topics: Strategic Discipline, One Page Strategic Plan, Alignment
Albert Einstein, Compound Effect author, Success Magazine Publisher Darren Hardy, and Strategic Learning author Willie Pietersen all agree. Focus and compounding are the two most powerful forces in the universe. Developing clarity of focus is your springboard.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, priorities, metrics, Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop
As children you played the game monopoly. The most disappointing part of the game is going bankrupt and being eliminated.
Topics: Four Decisions, Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop, Cash Conversion Cycle, Cash