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Success, It’s Not What You Do – Darren Hardy, Houston Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 16, 2011

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.

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Topics: Discipline, One Thing, Success, priorities, Compounding

Discipline – Why Hard Is Good For You. - Rackspace Houston Growth Summit Cont.

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, May 13, 2011

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. 

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Topics: Discipline, Net Promoter Score, Core Values, Growth Summit, Brand Promise

Beat Goliath - Graham Weston Rackspace Houston Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, May 11, 2011

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.

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Topics: Customer Feedback, Net Promoter Score, employee engagement, Strength Based Leadership, Ultimate Advantage

Talent Management Clean House – Greg Brenneman Houston Growth Summit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Tue, May 10, 2011

Here’s a quick list of speakers today at the Fortune Leadership Growth Summit in Houston:

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Topics: leadership, A Players, Topgrading

Run, Improve or Create Systems. Selecting the Right People

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 9, 2011

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.” 

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Topics: Good to Great, Accountability, People, A Players, Topgrading, The Right People

Discipline and Persistence Closes the Deal

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 5, 2011

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Topics: Discipline, Top Priority, Growth Summit, Sales Discipline

Dandelions - What are your Business Dashboards?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, May 4, 2011

I confess.  I cannot walk by a dandelion without have the obsessive compulsion to grab my gardening tool and dig it out.

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Topics: employee engagement, employee performance, priorities, Business Dashboards

Exploit Change with Strategic Discipline

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 2, 2011

Due to changing technology, economic pressures, and evolving demographics, Multipliers’’ Co-Author Greg McKeown sees significant changes ahead for business in their organizational strategy and management of employees.  We outlined some of these in the previous two blogs, manager’s role defined and Change Ahead.

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Topics: collective intelligence, Strategic Discipline, change, meeting rhythms, Multipliers, pattern recognition

Change Ahead - Applying Egypt’s Revolution to Your Organization

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Apr 29, 2011

Are there any implications your business can learn from the Egyptian Revolution?  Multipliers co author Greg McKeown predicts events like this and the Libyan revolution may foreshadow undercurrents that will impact your business.   As we’ve noted in this blog before the two most critical elements of leadership are the ability to predict and delegate.   Just like Scrooge in Dickens Christmas Carol these events may foresee what’s ahead for business.

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Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, change, Topgrading, Multipliers

Manager’s Role Redefined

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Apr 21, 2011

We’ve all met people who bring their enthusiasm and passion to work with them.  Greg McKeown who co authored the book Multipliers with Liz Wiseman is one of those people.   It reminded me of the significant difference that we need to be aware of in our organizations: are our people fueled with enthusiasm and passion for what it is your business does for your customers?  A good question to develop a subsequent blog around.  
Greg’s passion surrounds his pursuit of a question that’s driven him even before writing and contributing to Multipliers, “How can we access more of the intelligence and capability already inherent in people everywhere?”

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Topics: Accountability, employee performance, manager, Multipliers

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