Strategic Discipline Blog

What’s the best training you ever experienced? Did it change your behavior?

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Topics: Training, training and education, measurement, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google, Measure Learning, How to Measure Training Effectiveness

Despite Google’s efforts to always hire the best, like most organizations, they’re susceptible to hiring mistakes.

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Topics: People, People Decisions, People Development, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google, Laszlo Bock

“Hiring is the most important people function you have, and most of us aren’t as good at it as we think. Refocusing your resources on hiring better will have a higher return than almost any training program you can develop.” ~Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

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Topics: People, People Decisions, hiring decisions, Hiring, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google

Hope is a beggar. Jim Carrey’s Quote is appropriate. It clarifies the difference between Hope and Faith. In the dictionary, Hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best or a particular instance of this feeling.

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Topics: Strategic Planning, AML, Strategy - How, 3HAG WAY, Metronomics

On Wednesday, September 14^th the Growth Institute hosted Boost Your Marketing & Sales: Marcus Sheridan @Conversations at The Edge (Live Podcast). Sheridan is the author of They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer.

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Topics: Marketing, They Ask, You Answer, Marcus Sheridan, Content Marketing, Trust, Customer Focus

What makes a good leader?

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Topics: Leadership Training, Leadership DNA, Mastering Leadership, Leadership Circle Profile, Scaling Leadership

Failure is a feature, not a bug. You learn a lot from failure!

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Topics: Innovation Process, Innovation, Strategy - How, Strategy Creation, Play Bigger, Category Design

Exit Interviews.

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Topics: People, People Decisions, manager, People Development, People and Process, Exit Interviews

Meetings can be boring!

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Topics: Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni, meetings, Meeting Conflicts, better decisions through conflict

Who’s your ideal candidate?

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Topics: Topgrading, Topgrading, People Decisions,, Hiring, Reid Hoffman, Masters of Scale, Ideal Candidate, Hospitality Quotient, Danny Meyer