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Since hearing Darren Hardy speak about the Compound Effect and the discipline required for success I’ve been working on establishing the rituals he recommended. Although I’ve considered myself to be a pretty disciplined person, the disciplines Hardy describes require a tenacity and determination that few are willing to follow.
Topics: Discipline, Top Priority, priority
After hearing Darren Hardy of Success Magazine speak I went to Amazon to check out his book The Compound Effect and read the reviews. It’s interesting to read the negative responses. Most of them offered that what Hardy offered was nothing new, just a rehash of success formulas and ideas provided in books like Think and Grow Rich, etc.
Topics: Discipline, Success, failure
Topics: Discipline, Success, priorities
As publisher of Success Magazine for 15 years, having interviewed countless successful people pursuing his passion to provide his readers with an alternative to the negative news media stories that predominate today’s communication channels, Darren Hardy is an authority on success. Darren admitted to being a self achievement addict. He’s discovered there is a big difference between over achievers and super achievers. The difference however he’s discovered is not what they do.
Topics: Discipline, One Thing, Success, priorities, Compounding
Please forgive the length of my last blog. Believe it or not it was longer but I edited some things out. I’m afraid I was suffering from education overload. Each day we start the Growth Summit at 8 AM. When that concludes at 4 PM Gazelles coaches gather for another two plus hours in additional education and planning.
Topics: Discipline, Net Promoter Score, Core Values, Growth Summit, Brand Promise
Graham Weston took a risk asking our Growth Summit audience to give him comments good or bad about his company Rackspace. At the core of his curiosity is a commitment to a cultural change he began in 1999 which has sky-rocketed his firm to enormous growth and an envied position in a highly competitive expanding marketplace. A CEO from the audience responded describing an emergency situation where their server went down right before hosting an on line webinar at 10 PM on a Saturday. Rackspace answered their call immediately and worked through the night to help them get their webinar on by 6 AM Sunday. The CEO said it was the most impressive customer service performance he’d ever seen.
Topics: Customer Feedback, Net Promoter Score, employee engagement, Strength Based Leadership, Ultimate Advantage
Topics: leadership, A Players, Topgrading
A common mistake in the recruiting and hiring process is to be unclear about who and what you are hiring for. With every one of our growing clients, we recommend Topgrading methods to select the right employees. It’s important to recognize that of the Four Decisions that impact your business growth, People are the critical first piece. I remind you of Jim Collins words in Good to Great, “First who than what.”
Topics: Good to Great, Accountability, People, A Players, Topgrading, The Right People
Topics: Discipline, Top Priority, Growth Summit, Sales Discipline
I confess. I cannot walk by a dandelion without have the obsessive compulsion to grab my gardening tool and dig it out.
Topics: employee engagement, employee performance, priorities, Business Dashboards
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Doug Wick, President
Positioning Systems
The Strategic Discipline Blog focuses on midsize business owners with a ravenous appetite to improve his or her leadership skills and business results.
Our 3 disciplines include:
- Priorities
- Metrics
- Meeting Rhythms
