“Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life. And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.”
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Douglas Wick
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Hubert Jolly’s Best Buy Turnaround “Work is Love Made Visible.”
Posted by Douglas Wick on Tue, Jul 13, 2021
Topics: Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose, Purpose, P-Squared (Passion & Purpose), Hubert Jolly, The Heart of Business
Topics: People, Training, Culture of Discipline, Jim Collins, performance, Execution, human behavior performance, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, After-Action Reviews
Five Conditions Under Which Your People Will Execute Well!
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Jim Collins and Bill Lazier in Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company have some news for you.
Read MoreTopics: People, Jim Collins, Execution, People and Process, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, Tactical Excellence, Vision & Purpose
In BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) Jim Collins shares Ernest Hemingway's answer to why he’d rewritten the last page of A Farewell to Arms 39 times, “Getting the words right.”
Read MoreTopics: People Decisions, Jim Collins, key seats, People Development, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, Replace or Develop?
“One central idea I try to communicate in my courses is that history is the study of choices. It follows no predetermined script. History is determined by the choices made by people both famous and unknown.”
Read MoreTopics: One Thing, People, People Decisions, Jim Collins, The Right People, Key Metrics, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0
Build a Highly Cohesive, Culturally Strong Team - 5 Steps to Create an Empowering Culture
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Apr 26, 2021
Topics: Culture of Discipline, Business Culture, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Culture, Monty Moran, Love is Free. Gauc is Extra, Empowerment
If 2020 was a humbling year for you in terms of revenue growth, then it’s time to work on strategy.
Read MoreTopics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Strategy - How, Competitive Strategy, 3HAG WAY
Topics: People, People Decisions, Execution, Work Environment, Technology
You’ve probably heard this before when you’ve been called up to achieve change in your company, create an innovation or working on a project of some magnitude, “Why didn’t we think of that to begin with?” Or, “Where was this question when we started this project?”
Read MoreTopics: Execution, Innovation Process, Better communication, Think Like Amazon, Managing Dependencies