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One of the dramatic influences I’ve been forced to embrace is change. The Acute Myeloid Leukemia I encountered on February 25th dramatically changed my life. It forced change upon me and it also made me more open to change. In another blog I will discuss these changes more. Today let’s focus on an icon in industry that faced the need to change.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, People, A Players, Topgrading, Greatest Business Decisions of All Time, keys to good decision making
A critical component of the One Page Strategic Plan is determining Your Core Purpose. In Patrick Lencioni’s recent book The Advantage he pronounces clarity as being critical to business growth. To achieve this he asks six questions about your company. The first one, "Why do we exist?" is possibly the most challenging and difficult for a business to agree upon without a leadership team’s dedication, effort and the ability to resolve conflict. And it simply won’t be achieved without the CEO making the commitment first.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, People, One Page Strategic Plan, Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage, Southwest Airlines Core Purpose
Last Blog we discussed the irony in life. Another irony learned through my challenge with AML is the critical value of continuing to network and make connections. As the CEO of Positioning Systems, and perhaps even more so on a personal level one can tend to pigeon hole yourself on who you associate and make connections with. You can take a very selfish perspective on who you should market to, and even who you should have in your network of friends.
Topics: Good to Great, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, People, Jim Collins
Life can be ironic. Positioning System's fundamental coaching principles surround the ideals of discipline. The reason Positioning Systems focuses on Strategic Discipline for meetings, metrics, and priorities is due to my personal beliefs in the foundational teachings from Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and Jim Collins in Good to Great. They remain to me the most important element in achieving business growth and success.
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Jim Collins, Bone Marrow Transplant
If you’re not a fan of college football, and you’re a business owner there’s one thing you should pay close attention to for growing your business. It’s Jim Collins principal for Good To Great, First Who, Then What. If you look at the college football rankings this week you’ll see a list of teams (Alabama, USC, LSU, Oregon, Oklahoma, Florida State, Georgia and Arkansas) that are perennially on the top ranked college football teams. Why?
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, People, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions, Jim Collins, A Players
Yesterday I re-entered the hospital. It goes without saying that I must trust the doctors, nurses and health care for bone marrow transplant that is planned for me.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, People, performance, Trusted Advisor
A week ago on Friday I had lunch with a former client. It was my first time at a restaurant since February when my health issues began. Late Tuesday of that week, my doctor gave me permission to travel. With a credit we had for our missed March spring break vacation with the boys, my wife and I left late last Friday evening to visit the condo we share with her parents, for Mesa, Arizona. Imagine a tall balding fellow wearing a white surgical mask on the plane. That’s what I looked like in order to avoid the germs that plane flights are notorious for.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, One Thing, Stockdale Paradox, Chet Holmes, Michelle Wick
Many business and leadership skills are counter intuitive. Take the idea of less is more. Most of us believe if we tackle more we get more done, when precisely the opposite is true.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, leadership, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Strength Based Leadership
Discretion at the operating level of your business can absolutely destroy your business! When you fail to be consistent, customers come away with a different experience every time. This headline, “Eliminate Discretion at the Operating Level of Your Business” is a mantra from Michael Gerber’s E-Myth, Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. It is the principal of systems at its core. A starting point for systems take precedent over people. (See Topgrading - Was Michael Gerber Wrong)
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, E-Myth, People, customer satisfaction metrics, Business Culture, E-Myth Revisited, Eliminate Discretion at the Operating Level of You
One of my very good clients in Florida is a season ticket holder for the Florida Marlins. Naturally he’s been very disappointed this year with the Marlin’s performance. Expectations were high with opening a new stadium, brought in a new manager (Ozzie Guillen) and new ball players (Jose Reyes) to make a strong drive for the playoffs and possibly the World Series.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, priorities, metrics
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