Strategic Discipline Blog
Topics: employee engagement, Business Growth, Leadership Training, leadership, effective delegation
Where Does Confidence Come From? Giving Positive Reinforcement
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 21, 2014
Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, positive reinforcement, confidence, precision and specificity
Winners Never Cheat – Why Jon Huntsman Became Rich and Gives so Much
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 18, 2014
Why does a self-made multi-billionaire choose to give so much to charitable, education, and health organizations? Why is giving Jon Huntsman’s favorite topic?
Topics: Business Growth, Give and Take, cancer, Philanthropy
Core Values in Candidate Selection – Zappos “Are You Lucky?”
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 14, 2014
I’m on vacation this week and decided to repost two blogs that I feel have a message that needs to be repeated. The following blog is from February 6th, 2014. People as noted in Jim Collins Good to Great are the #1 factor in business success. Making sure you are hiring the right people is critical to ensuring your business success. Rockefeller Habits best practices demand creating Core Values. How do you use those Core Values? If you’re not using them to develop questions to determine if you have the right candidates to fit your culture, you should consider developing them. Here’s an example from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on how to use Core Values as they do to discover whether potential employees are a good fit in their culture.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, Core Values, People, Bone Marrow Transplant, hiring decisions, Mono Somy 7, Best Business Practices, Michelle Wick
I’m on vacation this week so I’m reposting a couple of blogs that contain messages that warrant repeating. Pearson’s Law, originally written 12-15-08, exemplifies the importance of metrics and Positioning Systems Strategic Discipline formula. It’s largely reprinted with a few minor additions. Do you want to see dramatic improvement in your people’s performance? Read further.
Topics: employee engagement, Accountability, employee performance, Business Dashboards, Pearsons Law
Change is Hard; Figuring Out What Works is Harder - Great by Choice.
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 7, 2014
This week I reintroduce the concept of SMaC to one of my customers in our Trimester Planning meeting. SMaC stands for Simple, Methodical and Consistent, as presented in Great by Choice by Jim Collins. I was struck by the irony SMaC reveals about successful companies. Most everyone acknowledges how difficult it is to accomplish change. Yet in Great by Choice their research discovered that poor performing companies change frequently, while great companies change less often. At a scale of 4 to 1.
Topics: Discipline, Great by Choice, 10Xers, change, SMaC Recipe, SMaC
Topics: Decision-Making, Top Priority, priority, less is more, time management
What’s your Core Purpose? We’ve discussed this subject several times, and it’s revealing that Greg McKeown in Essentialism speaks to it as well.
Topics: Decision-Making, Core Purpose, less is more, Clarity of Purpose
Topics: less is more, time management, performance, productivity
Essentialism, by Greg McKeown, subtitle is The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. This blog title is a rephrasing to emphasis the issue.
Topics: Discipline, less is more