Strategic Discipline Blog

First WHO then WHAT. 

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Topics: People, People Decisions, Locus of Control, The Right People, Topgrading, People Decisions,

Have you ever worried if your people are productive?

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Topics: Accountability, employee performance, Execution, Job Summary Scorecard, Performance Management

A good friend of mine and I met for coffee early Thursday morning.

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Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Winning Strategy, Strategy Question, Competitive Strategy

How does your company develop its strategy?

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Topics: strategy, Playing To Win, What Would Have to be True?, Strategy Question

How do strategies differ?

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Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Winning Strategy, Low-Cost Strategy, Differentiation Strategy

Having just returned from Annual Planning with one of my customers in California, I’ve enlisted the aid of guest blogger, Karoline Clarke (click on the link to discover her blogs here on Strategic Discipline) to provide ideas on how to advance the concepts of green principles to enhance your business.  I’ll be next week with more on how to build a Strategy to Win.

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Topics: Work Environment, Green, Eco-friendly, waste audit

There is no perfect strategy—nothing can guarantee your business a sustainable competitive advantage.

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Topics: strategy, strategy decisions, Playing To Win, Strategy - How, Strategy Traps, Winning Strategy

One of my customers is growing fast.  They’ve added 25 employees this year, increased revenue 45%, and plan to acquire additional companies to fuel their growth to add new people over the next three years.

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Topics: strategy, Core Competencies, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Core Capabilities, Strategy - How

My oldest brother, Jim Wick, was quadriplegic. I still remember the day I found out.  I was a sophomore in college. On my way to church Sunday, Mother’s Day, May 1973, my brother, Gary, met me and solemnly told me about Jim’s accident in Columbus, Ohio.   My brother Jim was a drag racer.  The two cars he and his partner raced were Matchmaker, and Widowmaker.  That morning at the Spring Nationals, competing in Matchmaker, a 1968 Plymouth Super Sport Barracuda he’d been badly hurt. 

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Topics: Karoline Clarke, Handicap Accessibility, Disability, Jim Wick, Disability Rights, ADA

“…strategy is disciplined thinking that requires tough choices and is all about winning.” ~ A.G. Lafley, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works.

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Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Strategy - How, A.G. Lafley