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Last blog, Is Good News Part of Your Business Culture, I closed with this quote, “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.” Patrick Lencioni, Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, One Thing, People, Organizational Health, Business Culture, the hidden gem in your business: teamwork, Achieve Execution Excellence
Learning, Growing and Planning. It’s a crucial element of our Gazelles business coaching practices. Companies that continue to grow look at education, training and learning as a competitive advantage.
Topics: Business Growth, Growth Summit, Growth Summit. Learning, Demand Based Economy
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
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
In our last blog Grow Author Jim Stengel “Great Leadership Follow Common Practices” we discussed the five leadership practices great leaders follow and learned: Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, leadership, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, The Advantage, competitive advantage
In Creating the Discipline of The Advantage Patrick Lencioni indicated the single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. He provides Four Disciplines that companies need to achieve organizational health.
Topics: Discipline, Business Growth, leadership, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, One Page Strategic Plan, The Advantage, Brand Ideal
This past week I posted a blog on Pearson's Law Revisited. I'd only wished I'd listened to Aubrey Daniels' Bringing Out the Best in People first before writing it. In Chapter 11 I was struck by Daniels' comment, "measuring doesn't change a thing!" He noted that a great many people in business believe that measuring a problem is tantamount to solving it.
Topics: Business Growth, Pearsons Law, Quantification
Eric Keiles and Mike Lieberman authors of Reality Marketing Revolution, asked thought provoking questions and let us know that the old model for marketing is broken. The good news you can change your behavior and find a way to position your company as remarkable.
Topics: Business Growth, Strategic Discipline, Marketing, Business Vision, Quantification, Strategic Planning
Those of you old enough to remember the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia will recognize his insight in a quote provided by Jeff Thull our Fortune Sales & Marketing Growth Summit keynote speaker and author of Mastering the Complex Sale. Jeff said most of us are working way too hard. He had insights into how to change that, starting with this advice, "you don't want to be the best of the best at what you do." Rather follow Jerry Garcia's observation, "You want to be considered the only one who does what you do." You can build your Brand Promise around an uncommon offering like that.
Topics: Business Growth, Jerry Garcia, Brand Promise, Promise, Jeff Thull, Grateful Dead, Mastering the Complex Sale
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