Is the mood in your company for meetings one of anticipation or aversion?
A prospect this past week reacted to the suggestion of meetings by indicating they have to be careful in their organization to mention the word meeting. His people dislike meetings and generally greet them with annoyance and impatience. It suggests that the meetings they’ve conducted in the past are possibly disorganized, not well prepared, unexciting, lack conflict and do little to energize those participating. It’s also a reflection of what I believe many businesses suffer from. They feel meetings are boring, and a necessary evil.
Allow me to reflect on my current condition and place this in perspective. I’m currently suffering from a condition called dry mouth. It’s a symptom of Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)which can occur after bone marrow transplant for leukemia patients.
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Topics:
meeting rhythms,
Patrick Lencioni,
meetings,
Organizational Health,
Alignment,
Death by Meeting,
Graft-Versus-Host Disease,
GVHD
Are you like me wondering what Level Five Ambition looks like? Do you wonder if you have the makeup to have it? Is it something to aspire to? If it is, can you develop the characteristics and habits to achieve it?
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Topics:
Great by Choice,
fanatic discipline,
Level 5 Leadership,
Level Five Ambition
How can you describe Fanatic Discipline? It might be through the example Jim Collins provides in Good to Great and I offered in one of my newsletters Rinse Cottage Cheese – Advance or Retreat on Discipline.
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Topics:
Great by Choice,
fanatic discipline,
SMaC Recipe
Take a look at the picture on the right. It’s a slide we share in our Four Decisions, public and private, one and two day Rockefeller Habits Workshops. Infrequently people question these results. They can’t believe these ratios and improvements are possible.
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Topics:
Business Growth,
Great by Choice,
fanatic discipline,
Southwest Airlines
What’s the problem with discipline? Repeatedly in this blog and in the works of Jim Collins in Good to Great, Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fal, Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage, The Four Disciplines of Execution, and many other best practice and top thought leadership books we hear the principles of discipline continuously cited as critical to reaching success.
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Topics:
Discipline,
Great by Choice,
Businesss Disciplines,
Rockefeller Habits Checklist,
Alan Rudy
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
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