Strategic Discipline Blog

Ask yourself a question about your business practices: 

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Topics: Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, Brand Promise Guarantee, Best in the World at

What can you be the Best in the World at?

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Topics: The Inside Advantage, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, Brand Promise Guarantee, Positioning Systems Brand Promise, Sandbox

“I’m never coming back to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Doug!” 

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Topics: Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, X Factor, Scaling Up Workshops

Would you like to find a predictor for your business achieving greatness?

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Topics: Good to Great, Core Purpose, Jim Collins, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise

Saturday morning I received this quote from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in one of my inspirational emails,

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Topics: People, People/Relationship Drivers, One on One coaching

This week I'm in Conneticut working with a new customer.  Because I left on Saturday I'm resharing a blog created and published on February 4th of this year.  As a Gazelles Certified Coach, Positioning Systems is committed to helping our customers discover their One Thing for the year and each subsequent quarter.  That's part of the work I'll be doing with my new customer on Monday and Tuesday this week. 

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Topics: productivity, One Thing, Vacation

Creating your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) as Jim Collins describes and shares, is an iterative process.  It rarely is achieved in a few meetings, or without completing several very important milestones for your business.  Included in these are these three elements of your Hedgehog Concept: Core Purpose, Profit Per X and Brand Promise.

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Topics: Core Purpose, The Inside Advantage, WHO WHAT HOW The Inside Advantage, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, BHAG

As an E-Myth Senior Business Coach for ten years I used the E-Myth resources and tools to help my small business customers apply the systems concept to build their business.

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Topics: leadership, manager, Business Vision, E-Myth Revisited, Vision, Performance Management

Do you hire, evaluate, and release people in your organization based on your Core Values?

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Topics: Core Values, People, People Decisions, Patrick Lencioni, Jim Collins, strategy, Mission to Mars, The Ideal Team Player

How often do you invest time making the simple complicated?

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, One Thing, strategy, Direction, Happiness