Why all this focus on Great by Choice?
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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Great by Choice, 10Xers, fanatic discipline, SMaC, 20 Mile March
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Topics: Great by Choice, 10Xers, fanatic discipline, SMaC Recipe, less is more, SMaC, Southwest Airlines
The greatest marketer and innovator on the planet returns to his former company, Apple, and what is his first step? In Great by Choice, Jim Collins uses Apple as one of the comparison companies. His research looked at 1972-2002, and Steve Jobs didn’t return to Apple until 1997. But consider Jobs’ first move:
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Topics: Discipline, Great by Choice, Discipline Plan, best practices of growth companies, Best Business Practices, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Steve Jobs
Can a simple Dashboard provide clarity for your organization? In The High Ground – Your Dashboard I provided an example of a business dashboard that contain both the quarterly priorities and key financial benchmarks for the company. These would include revenue, sales costs, Cost of Goods, Overhead Costs, Net Profit, Break-Even Analysis, Cost per Full-Time Equivalent, Cash Flow and Accounts Receivables. If you’d like to see this Excel example, send me an email with Sample Financial Dashboard in the subject line.
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Topics: success criteria, Business Dashboards, The Advantage
Wouldn’t it be great to have a filter on your hiring and recruiting process that could tell you whether your candidates fit your business?
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Topics: Core Values, Patrick Lencioni, Jim Collins, Business Vision, The Advantage, Business Culture
This morning during our monthly meeting one of my client’s debated their Core Values. A year ago they completed them and after reading Patrick Lencioni’s book The Advantage, the owner determined that it would make sense to revisit them based on the definitions of Core Values that Patrick Lencioni had defined in this book.
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Topics: Core Values, Built to Last, Patrick Lencioni, Jim Collins, The Advantage
I’m a history lover and perhaps the story I offer today will not make the same point it made on me. Hopefully this Civil War recounting will help you understand the value of clarity, the importance of everyone’s oars moving in the same direction, and how despite setbacks you can achieve success through persistence and determination.
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Topics: Accountability, Strategic Discipline, Strategy Statement, CSS Hunley
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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, employee engagement, Employee Recognition, positive reinforcement, Q12, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey
What would mean to your business if everyone in your company knew exactly what direction it’s headed toward?
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Topics: Business Vision, The Advantage, Strategy Statement, Can You Say What Your Strategy Is
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