As a child you may have feared and disliked the word discipline. Being disciplined usually meant you’d done something wrong.
In business, discipline can have a negative connotation.
Great leaders know to build a great business requires discipline.
Discipline isn’t as challenging as it would sound.
As The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan shares, you only need enough discipline to create a habit. Once the habit is established discipline flows, easily.
Misconceptions About Discipline
There are a lot of misconceptions about discipline.
Do you ever feel you just need more discipline? Read The Truth About Discipline, Habit, and Willpower to understand this myth.
How long does it take to create a habit? 21 days? Read How Long To Create a Habit? You’ll discover it can take much longer and possibly shorter to develop your habits.
Creating a habit requires change. In How to Build A Habit we shared Michael Bungay Stanier five essential components to build an effective habit from his book, The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever.
You need discipline to build a great business.
M. Alexander noted, “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
Build a Winning Habit - Create A Winning Habit
To build an enduring great organization you need disciplined people, engaged in disciplined thought, to take disciplined action, to produce superior results, making a distinctive impact in the world.
Discipline sustains momentum. Over a long period of time discipline lays the foundation for lasting endurance. It’s the framework for Good to Great. Here’s how Strategic Discipline, as coached by Pos
Marshall Goldsmith one of the most respected business coaches, author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and many other successful books, noted at one of our ScaleUp Summits, his success as a coach wasn’t because he was so good, it was because his customers are.
Positioning Systems is only as good as the customers we work with. Success is predicated on my customers determination, commitment, dedication, purpose, and openness to ideas.
The most successful customers possess a burning desire to learn and make their business successful.
Do you have a burning desire to learn and grow your business to be great? Contact me at dwick@positioningsystems.com
Positioning Systems is obsessively driven to elevate your teams Discipline. A winning habit starts with 3 Strategic Disciplines: Priority, Metrics and Meeting Rhythms. Your business dramatically improves forecasting, accountability, individual, and team performance.
Creating, defining, understanding, with creativity and DISCIPLINE your Flywheel establishes Execution Excellence.
Meeting Rhythms achieve a disciplined focus on performance metrics to drive growth.
Positioning Systems helps your business achieve these outcomes on the Four most Important Decisions your business faces:
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Positioning Systems helps mid-sized ($5M - $250M) business Scale-UP. We align your business to focus on Your One Thing! Contact dwick@positioningsystems.com to Scale Up your business! Take our Four Decisions Needs Assessment to discover how your business measures against other Scaled Up companies. We’ll contact you.
Tuesday & Wednesday this week is the ScaleUp Summit in Atlanta. I’ll be attending with one of my customers. Speaker highlights will follow in my next blog.