Small Business | Coaching | Consulting | Positioning Systems | with |Doug Wick

Strategic Discipline Blog

Winning on Purpose - NPS Leaders Out Pace Good to Great Companies

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 21, 2022

In October of 2008, I wrote a blog Even in a difficult economy Customer Service can Make a Difference! My car wash customer was looking to improve his business during the summer, due to skyrocketing gas prices. The solution: measure customer satisfaction. Autopia Car Wash in California was one of the first customers I shared Fred Reichheld’s Ultimate question, Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Read More

Topics: Good to Great, customer survey, Net Promoter Score, customer satisfaction metrics, Jim Collins, customer loyalty, Fred Reichheld, Winning on Purpose

To Change Your Behavior, Change your Identity

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 14, 2022

You’ve probably attempted to change and failed. It could be trying to lose weight, quit smoking, be on time, be better at time management or create systems and innovate your business.

Read More

Topics: habits, Experiences & Beliefs Drive Actions & Results, Atomic Habits, James Clear

Reflection & Review Produces Mastery

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 7, 2022

One of the reasons Strategic Discipline works well for our customers is the habit for leadership reflection in each Quarterly and Annual planning meeting where we review

Read More

Topics: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, habits, mastery, Path to Mastery, What did we learn, Atomic Habits, Review & Reflection, What can we Work on?

Goals or Systems – Focus on Activities to Achieve Success

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 28, 2022

What exactly does James Clear mean by, You Do Not Rise to the Level of Your Goals. You Fall to the Level of Your Systems?”

Read More

Topics: Business Dashboards, Build Business Dashboard, Dashboards, Systems & Process, Goal Achievment, Atomic Habits, James Clear

Small Habits Make a Big Difference – Atomic Habits

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Feb 21, 2022

It’s easy to forget Jim Collins in Good to Great shared great companies didn’t become great overnight. It took slow, steady momentum, continuous, consistent pushes on their flywheel, eventually leading to breakthrough. See 12 QUESTIONS to Take You From Good To Great - #1 & 2 for Collins' definition of Greatness.

Read More

Topics: Success Habit, Winning Habit, Atomic Habits, James Clear

Job Summary Scorecards – Are You Winning?

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Feb 14, 2022

Shannon Susko, author of 3HAG WAY, Metronome Effect, and Metronomics refuses to accept a customer who won’t participate in Daily Huddles with their organization.

Read More

Topics: Accountability, Aubrey Daniels, daily huddle, human behavior performance, Job Summary Scorecard, Clarity of Expectations

WHAT’S YOUR JOB?

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Feb 7, 2022

“You cannot manage other people unless you manage yourself first” ~ Peter Drucker

Read More

Topics: Accountability, Business Scorecards, Create Business Dashboard and Scorecard, Job Summary Scorecard, CEO Leadership Focus, The CEO Test

THE CHAIN-REACTION STRATEGY – Response

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 31, 2022

“Terror is the ultimate way to paralyze a people’s will to resist and destroy their ability to plan a strategic response. Such power is gained through sporadic acts of violence that create a constant feeling of threat, incubating a fear that spreads throughout the public sphere. The goal in a terror campaign is not battlefield victory but causing maximum chaos and provoking the other side into desperate overreaction. Melting invisibly into the population, tailoring their actions for the mass media, the strategists of terror create the illusion that they are everywhere and therefore that they are far more powerful than they really are. It is a war of nerves. The victims of terror must not succumb to fear or even anger; to plot the most effective counterstrategy, they must stay balanced. In the face of a terror campaign, one’s rationality is the last line of defense.” ~ 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene

Read More

Topics: strategy, Effective Leadership, Strategy - How, 33 Strategies of War

How Your Business Makes Money – KFFM

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Jan 24, 2022

How does money flow through your organization? How do customers flow through your business?

Read More

Topics: leading indicators, Profit per X, 3HAG WAY, KFFM (Key Function Flow Map)

What Drives Your Business

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 17, 2022

Fred Smith’s vision and focus helped drive FedEx to become one of the most successful companies in the world.

Read More

Topics: Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Business Driver, KFFM (Key Function Flow Map), FedEx

Challenges of Scaling Up a Business 

 

STRATEGIC DISCIPLINE 
ACHIEVES
EXECUTION EXCELLENCE
HERE'S HOW

 

 HOW DOES YOUR BUSINESS RANK ON THE FOUR DECISIONS?

 FIND OUT CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE FOUR DECISIONS NEEDS ASSESSMENT 

(IT'S ABSOLUTELY FREE!) 

New Call-to-action

 

New Call-to-action

 

New Call-to-action

Subscribe to Email Updates

Click below to Schedule a Free 30 Minute Discovery Appointment NOW: 
Meetig

Positioning Systems Brand Promise

1. Priorities: Determine your #1 Priority. Achieve measurable progress in 90 days.

2. Metrics: Develop measurable Key Performance Indicators. 

3. Meetings: Establish effective meeting rhythms. (Cadence of Accountability)  Compounding the value of your priority and metrics. 

(BRAND PROMISE GUARANTEE): We will refund all compensation if our disciplined coaching and proprietary tools fail to meet your expectations.

Certified Gazelles Coach

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

Latest Posts

Browse by Tag

see all