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Make A Choice – Motivation Moment

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 1, 2014

You may have heard the story on how trainers get an elephant to remain tied to a stake.   Even though an elephant has enough strength to easily remove the stake, due to the training received when they are young they’re unable to realize they can get free.  View the video on the right for the full story.

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, Decision-Making, human behavior, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and W, habits, routine

Finding People to Lead & Manage

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Apr 24, 2014

If you’ve found it challenging to find effective managers you’re not alone.  Recent research by Gallup points to a number of glaring issues that may make you feel better about your management hiring success rate. 

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Topics: employee engagement, Business Growth, manager, training and education

BO-lieving – Changing Habits for Business Growth

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 21, 2014

Twelve exhausted athletes single file into the high school biology room of their new basketball coach.  It’s the first week of basketball season.  Entering a classroom is a unique experience for them.  Practices are in the main auditorium of the high school.  This is the first time they’ve ever been anywhere but the gym.  

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Topics: Business Growth, Strategic Discipline, habits, Business Culture, The Power of Habit

Why Is Your Business The Way It Is? The Power of Habit

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 14, 2014

Can it really be this simple?

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Topics: Business Growth, Aubrey Daniels, Discipline Plan, habits, The Power of Habit, routine

MULTIPLIER EFFECT – FEWER PEOPLE, PAID MORE, HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Mar 27, 2014

When Jack Welsh was at GE he had a philosophy to have less people, paid more with a lower total wage cost. 

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Topics: Business Growth, Leadership Training, leadership, Multipliers, productivity, Leadership Team

OWN IT – Create Imaginative Acts – Inside Advantage

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 17, 2014

The intention of discovering your Inside Advantage is to announce it to your prospects and customers.  If you want to know what an imaginative act looks like look no further than Steve Jobs and several of his announcements for Apple including his 2007 introduction of the iPhone. 

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Topics: Business Growth, The Inside Advantage, WHO WHAT HOW The Inside Advantage, best practices of growth companies, Uncommon Offering, Southwest Airlines, Your Core Customer

HOW – Develop Your Persuasive Strategy – Inside Advantage

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Mar 13, 2014

If you’ve followed along with the previous blogs on discovering Your Inside Advantage, WHO and WHAT, your among the few who are disciplined enough and smart enough to know the value of discovering a marketing strategy that can give you a competitive differentiation in your market.

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Topics: Business Growth, The Inside Advantage, WHO WHAT HOW The Inside Advantage, strategy

WHAT? QUIZNOS INSIDE ADVANTAGE FAILURE

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 10, 2014

What happens when you don’t know your WHAT, or in the case of Quiznos, you don’t evolve your WHAT?

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Topics: Business Growth, The Inside Advantage, WHO WHAT HOW The Inside Advantage, Uncommon Offering

Identifying WHAT – Your Uncommon Offering – Inside Advantage

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Mar 6, 2014

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Topics: Business Growth, The Inside Advantage, Core Customer, WHO WHAT HOW The Inside Advantage, strategy, Jerry Garcia, Your Uncommon Offering

Steps to Finding Your “Who” Inside Advantage

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 3, 2014

Much of what I am presenting in today’s blog can be found in the Inside Advantage. If you’re serious about identifying your Core Customer, and you should be, I’d strongly recommend picking up the book.  It has plenty of examples to help you discover your WHO.  Ultimately hiring Bob Bloom will be your best alternative to be completely confident you’ve identified the most critical aspect of your business, your core customer.

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Topics: Business Growth, Marketing, The Inside Advantage, Core Customer, WHO WHAT HOW The Inside Advantage

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