Monday I spent 8+ hours with one of my clients working on strategic and annual planning for 2014. I purposely say strategy and planning because they are two separate elements to work on.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: leadership, Compounding, Leadership Team, effective delegation
What’s the number one function of a leader? It’s the ability to predict.
“The fundamental journey of a growing business is to create a predictable engine for generating wealth as it creates products and services that satisfy customer needs and creates an environment that attracts tip talent.” Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
Unless a company has the ability to determine where it is today and project where its’ going to be this week, this month, this quarter, and this year, it’s not on a trajectory for growth. It might not even be on track for survival. A favorite quote of mine is, "When you’re green you grow, when you’re rip you rot!"
Ultimately the reason for imposing structure and instituting systems is to achieve predictability.
This is why Strategic Discipline is such a critical piece to success.
Determine your priorities. Create and monitor metrics. Develop Meeting Rhythms to build a Cadence of Accountability.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Strategic Discipline, planning, Annual Plan, leadership, strategy, Leadership Team
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Business Growth, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, market dynamics, Barriers to Business Growth
What is preventing your business from growing? Why do only .3% of the nearly 30 Million US businesses every get beyond $10 Million dollars?
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Accountability, Business Growth, Work Process Flow Charts, Barriers to Business Growth, Execution
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: People, leadership, Barriers to Business Growth, Leadership Team, . The two most important attributes of effective
What makes people hate their jobs? What makes them non-productive, complaint-happy zombies?
2 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, weekly meetings, collective intelligence, employee performance, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
1 Comment Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback, weekly meetings, leading indicators, Bone Marrow Transplant, GVHD, Relationship Drivers
In The Hedgehog Concept we discussed the intersection of three circles that provide your One Thing Focus for the strategy of your business. Where do you find or discover the elements that comprise the three circles? If you’ve completed portions of your One Page Strategic Plan you’ll have made progress toward understanding what these are.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Core Purpose, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, Patrick Lencioni, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Organizational Health, Brand Promise, BHAG, Brand Ideal
13 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Good to Great, Jim Collins, strategy, Hedgehog Concept
7 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Good to Great, strategy, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Seven Strata of Strategy
.jpeg?width=150&height=135&name=Hand%20with%20marker%20writing%20the%20question%20Whats%20Next_%20(1).jpeg "Schedule a meeting")
