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Accountability - Three Reasons Group Meetings Produce Better

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 16, 2012

In Get Greater Accountability, Individual Meetings or Team Meetings? I failed to outline some of the more positive outcomes that come from group meetings and individual meetings.  Let’s look also at private and public accountability and why the latter works so much better in group meetings.

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Accountability, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, success criteria, Patrick Lencioni

Which is Best Individual Meetings or Team Meetings? Personal Story on Accountability.

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Tue, Jul 3, 2012

Accountability.  It’s a critical element in organizations that grow.   Last Monday at about 2:15 AM one of the doctors took accountability for me, made a decision to send me to the ICU possibly saving my life,   I didn’t want to go there, I liked being in the familiar.   He looked at the larger picture. The trends he saw disturbed him.  Continuing fever for two and half days.  Hemoglobin being absorbed almost as fast as they could put it in me.  Plus the disturbing rate my heart was pumping at, and the balance between the low and high number they give on blood pressure.  (The bottom number is not good if it drops below 60.) 

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Accountability, metrics, human behavior, Organizational Health, human behavior performance

Communication Barrier – Fundamental Attribution Error

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jun 28, 2012

You’re clear on your One Thing.  You feel there’s some traction in your leadership team, yet something seems amiss in your weekly meeting rhythm meetings.  The meetings are sedate, absent excitement, conflict and drama that you feel might exemplify a team grinding together to get things done.  Is this good or bad?  

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Accountability, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Fundamental Attribution Error

Clarity’s First Step – Determining Your One Thing

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sun, Jun 24, 2012

Freedom. It’s what almost everyone wants, whether it’s your staff, leadership team or you.  

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, One Thing, Organizational Health

Organizational Health Meets Pearson’s Law

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jun 21, 2012

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Accountability, Strategic Discipline, Pearsons Law, Organizational Health, The Advantage

Measuring Results is Just the First Step in Pearson’s Law

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Tue, Jun 19, 2012

Last week I received a comment on my Pearson’s Law blog from Tomas, “Sounds simple yet very effective in any area where you want improvement.  I've been implementing this law for the last year and a half in many ways and I can say it works exceptionally well. Performance accelerates every time.”

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, leading indicators, Pearsons Law, performance

The Patience Lesson Continues – Stockdale Paradox

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Jun 15, 2012

Yesterday started with good news as I got my blood work done at St Luke’s Physician Clinic in Cedar Rapids, the numbers all came back well above the point where I need a transfusion. Then Dr. Hosne Begum stopped in to say, “You’re Amazing!”   And then added, “And your wife is more amazing!”   I’d handled the fever well and despite being diagnosed with pneumonia through a CAT scan I still feel very good. 

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, leukemia, Strategic Discipline, Bone Marrow Transplant, Stockdale Paradox, Mono Somy 7, Michelle Wick

Four Disciplines for Managing Your Priorities

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Discernment should be a gift we all have with the talent to use it wisely.  One of the greatest challenges we face is how and where we spend our time. 

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Topics: Discipline, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, priorities, precision and specificity

Why Aren’t You Committed to Topgrading?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 11, 2012

Friday on my return from a meeting with the bone marrow transplant program and my transplant doctor (Dr Silverman) I had time to consider commitment as my wife and I drove back to Cedar Rapids from the University of Iowa.  The numbers given us about bone marrow transplant weren’t particularly encouraging.  Only about 15% of bone marrow transplant patients make it beyond a couple of years and get into complete remission of their cancer.   Appalling!  You thought the numbers are disappointing for people lying on their resumes.

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Topics: A Players, Topgrading, The Right People

Save Time Recruiting & Hiring with Topgrading’s SnapShot

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Jun 8, 2012

If you’ve spent any time hiring and recruiting then you know that when you get a lot of candidates to sift through, disqualifying them can be a big time investment headache.  Candidates that lie on their resume have reached appalling numbers, with even the top chap at Yahoo willing to deceive. 

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Topics: People, A Players, Topgrading

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