What makes people hate their jobs? What makes them non-productive, complaint-happy zombies?
Strategic Discipline Blog
Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, weekly meetings, collective intelligence, employee performance, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback, weekly meetings, leading indicators, Bone Marrow Transplant, GVHD, Relationship Drivers
What’s Your Passion? What Are You Best At? (Hedgehog Concept)
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 11, 2013
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.
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
Topics: Good to Great, Jim Collins, strategy, Hedgehog Concept
Topics: Good to Great, strategy, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Seven Strata of Strategy
In the first or second grade I recall being in a parade of students ushered into our small home town theatre to watch the movie Ben Hur. Going to a movie back then (circa 1960) was a big event. The theatre had provided our Catholic Elementary school the entire theatre to show the movie Ben Hur. Watching a movie on the big screen, before there were big screens in every home for TV, was awe inspiring. I’ve grown to love the movie. One of the conflicts in the movie is Judah Ben Hur’s rivalry with Messala, a roman tribune.
Topics: Balanced Priorities, People/Relationship Drivers, Balance, Strength Based Leadership
Working with our client’s one critical element to make sure a business does not get out of balance is making sure when you choose your priorities you balance your productivity measures with a people or relationship measurement. It’s your critical number that assures your effort to build more productivity doesn’t hurt the relationships with your customers, employees or shareholders.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, One Thing, Process/Productivity Drivers, People/Relationship Drivers, Mono Somy 7, Balance, Balanced Metrics, Michelle Wick
Topics: Accountability, weekly meetings, Culture of Discipline, Meetings a Cadence of Accountability
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, Strategic Discipline, Business Priorities, Business Vision, Businesss Disciplines, Bone Marrow Transplant
If you don’t believe cash is king take a look at some of the companies who have the largest cash reserves. Topping the list is Cisco with almost $40 billion in cash. Microsoft has nearly $37 billion, Pfizer $27 Billion, and Apple stands at $25.6 Billion.
Topics: Sales Process, collective intelligence, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Cash Conversion Cycle, Cash