Strategic Discipline Blog

I played and officiated basketball. Somewhere I heard, “Basketball is a game of momentum.”

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Topics: employee engagement, People, Extraordinary Results, People and Process, Experiences & Beliefs Drive Actions & Results

Can you think of an occasion when blaming someone, or criticizing has helped?

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Topics: Performance Management, People Development, Responsibility, Criticism

The driving force for any business starts with your people. Despite the Great Resignation, and fallout from people wanting to work from home, great people are the energy to grow your business.

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Topics: Clarity of Purpose, use of energy, Purpose, Vision & Purpose, Meaning

I am grateful this week of Thanksgiving for Katie Brenneman, guest writer, who provides insights into why you should invest in your leadership skills to improve your team's level of job satisfaction:

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Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, Effective Leadership, Employee Satisfaction, Mental Health, Leadership Skills

Every business is looking for an edge.

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Topics: Radical Change, Core Behaviors, All In: Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results, Burning Platform, Engage Head and Heart

Anthropologists have uncovered Paleolithic grave sites which include tools, an ax, some clothing, and a pouch with berries and dried venison. Sites like these are scattered across Europe and Asia.

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Topics: Willpower, Stategy - Why, Why Power, All In: Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results

I,s it okay to pay a salesperson 2, 3, 10 times or more what other salespeople make?

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Topics: measurement, Performance Management, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google, Reward Top Performers, Power Law, Fairness: Pay commensurate with contribution

What’s the best training you ever experienced? Did it change your behavior?

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Topics: Training, training and education, measurement, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google, Measure Learning, How to Measure Training Effectiveness

Despite Google’s efforts to always hire the best, like most organizations, they’re susceptible to hiring mistakes.

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Topics: People, People Decisions, People Development, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google, Laszlo Bock

“Hiring is the most important people function you have, and most of us aren’t as good at it as we think. Refocusing your resources on hiring better will have a higher return than almost any training program you can develop.” ~Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

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Topics: People, People Decisions, hiring decisions, Hiring, Work Rules - Insights from Inside Google