Strategy challenges are indicated by a slowing in top line revenue growth. If revenue is not growing as quickly as you like, then it’s time to re-examine your strategy: What you’re selling to whom? It’s important to have a concise statement of that strategy so everyone’s aligned and on the same page without wasting sales or operational energies on activities not useful to the business.
Strategic Discipline Blog
Strategy Decision Growth Tools - BHAG, 3-5 Year Plan, Innovation Window
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Feb 26, 2015
Topics: Business Growth, Four Decisions, strategy, BHAG, 3-5 year plan, Innovation Window
Strategy Decisions - Actions to Live By, Catalytic Mechanism, X Factor
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 23, 2015
Decisions equal success. There are four decisions, in growing your business, that you must get right or risk leaving significant revenues, profits, and time on the table. These four decisions are: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. Most growth firm’s face continual challenges in all four areas, at any one time the challenges in one of these areas overshadows the rest. Therefore, your first decision is to choose which one of the four to focus on next.
Topics: Business Growth, Four Decisions, strategy, catalytic mechanisms, X Factor, actions to live by, Brand Promise Guarantee
Four Decisions Strategy –7 Strata, WHO, Brand Promise, Profit Per X
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Feb 19, 2015
We’re exploring the Four Decisions resources and Growth tools Positioning Systems and Gazelles coaches provide to our customer to help you become familiar with how you can ramp up the growth of your small to mid-sized business.
Topics: Four Decisions, strategy, Profit per X, Seven Strata of Strategy, Brand Promise, WHO
Growth Tools – Strategy for Top Line Revenue Growth (Cont.)
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 16, 2015
The challenge in almost every business, small to mid-size, growing or static, is to initiate or continue revenue growth. Of the Rockefeller Habits Four Decisions, People, Strategy, Execution and Cash, Strategy is the Decision that produces revenue growth.
Topics: Business Growth, Four Decisions, strategy, Core Competencies, VUCA, Words You Own, SWOT, SWT
Four Decision Growth Tools – Strategy Yields Top Line Revenue Growth
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Feb 12, 2015
Nothing affects your business more than the quality and timing of the decisions you make. In Execution or Bad Choices – Why Do Businesses Fail we examined the reason most businesses fail.
Topics: Business Growth, Core Values, Core Purpose, Strategy Statement, growth tools
Rockefeller Habits 4 Decisions Tools – People Continued
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 9, 2015
What can managers do to improve their people? Our review of the resources and tools that Rockefeller Habits and Positioning Systems can provide your growing enterprise continues with a look at the remaining tools we provide our customers with to improve People. You can read the first group of People tools and resources at Rockefeller Habits 4 Decisions Tools – People.
Topics: Business Growth, People, Four Decisions, Topgrading, One on One coaching, Orientation and Onboarding
The opportunity to discuss the nature of preparation and the importance it played in the recent Super Bowl preceded the plan to provide you with the remaining tools for People resources from Rockefeller Habits 4 Decisions. We’ll provide the remainder of these People tools in next Monday’s blog.
Topics: planning, Annual Plan, Built to Last, Jim Collins, Execution, preparation
Topics: Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Work Process Flow Charts, People, Four Decisions, Leadership Team, One-Page Personal Plan, Core Processes, FACe exercise: Functional Accountability Exercise, Scaling Up Verne Harnish
Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, Employee Recognition, employee performance, positive reinforcement, Psychology of Achievement
How important do you value discipline in your organization? How much thought if any do you give to it?
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Great by Choice, Discipline Plan, Culture of Discipline, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Scaling Up Verne Harnish