Strategic Discipline Blog
Next Wave Innovations – Design To Grow, David Butler (Atlanta Growth Summit)
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jun 9, 2016
Topics: Business Growth, strategy, Growth Summit, Innovation Process, Strategic Advisory Council
Great Brands Start Inside – Denise Lee Yohn (Atlanta Growth Summit)
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 6, 2016
Topics: Core Values, People, Core Purpose, Growth Summit, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Great Brands
Last to First – Jim Whitehurst - (Atlanta Growth Summit)
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jun 2, 2016
Going from last (18th place among all major airlines) to first was the story that captured my attention with our second speaker at the Scale Up Fortune Atlanta Growth Summit..
Read MoreTopics: Growth Summit, Execution, The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst, Delta Airlines
Understand How To Win – Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Atlanta Growth Summit)
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Tue, May 31, 2016
Topics: People Decisions, Growth Summit, Execution, daily huddle, General Stanley McChrystal
One of the highlights of attending the Growth Summit for me as a coach is the day or two before the Summit when almost 200 Gazelles coaches meet to learn practices and sharpen our crafts. Monday we received a personal audience with Verne Harnish, the author of Scaling Up and Mastering the Rockefeller Habits.
Read MoreTopics: People, manager, Growth Summit, Scaling Up Verne Harnish
Stonewall Jackson’s SWOT – Great General, Poor Teacher
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 23, 2016
Are there some skills sets you find you’re not very good at? Every one of us has strengths and weaknesses.
Read MoreTopics: People, People Decisions, Strength Based Leadership, Performance Management, Topgrading, People Decisions,, Performance Matrix
Topics: Topgrading, hiring decisions, Cost of Mis-hire, Topgrading, People Decisions,, Attitude
On Wednesday last week, I delivered a Toastmasters speech including the following admonishment: Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven’t committed yourself to living by the truth that your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, One Thing, Success, Attitude, High Self-Esteem
Topics: Strategic Discipline, Execution, Scrum, Waste
Topics: Decision-Making, less is more, productivity, Willpower, Scrum, Scrum, Execution