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Purpose-Driven Businesses Outperform Competitors

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 13, 2024

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In last week’s blog Two Questions Every Business Needs to Answer we shared the importance of developing a Core Purpose or Mission statement.

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Topics: Core Purpose, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose,, Jim Stengel, Great Leadership, Purpose Driven Business

Two Questions Every Business Needs to Answer

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 6, 2024

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Topics: Core Purpose, competitive advantage, customer loyalty, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose, Purpose, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose,, Competitive Strategy, Know Your Customer, Know What You’re FOR

Share Your Company’s Values

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 27, 2023

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One of my customers was facing a difficult decision.

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Topics: Core Values, Core Purpose, Vision, Core Behaviors, Vision & Purpose, Mission, Vision, Values

The Deficit of Alignment

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 16, 2023

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The One Page Strategic Plan is a great tool to bring your organization into alignment.

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Topics: Core Purpose, One Page Strategic Plan, Clarity of Purpose, Alignment, Purpose, The One Thing, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose,, Nine Lies About Work, Meaning

Start with WHY – The Golden Circle Story

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Dec 6, 2021

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If the great resignation or turnover crisis is a cultural crisis for businesses, then understanding your WHY/Core Purpose is critical to prevent it from disrupting you.

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Topics: employee engagement, Core Purpose, Employee retention, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose,, Simon Sinek, Why Employees Leave

Hubert Jolly’s Best Buy Turnaround “Work is Love Made Visible.”

Posted by Douglas Wick on Tue, Jul 13, 2021

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“Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life. And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.”

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Topics: Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose, Purpose, P-Squared (Passion & Purpose), Hubert Jolly, The Heart of Business

Annual Planning – Fear or Purpose

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 7, 2020

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“Nobody knows enough to be a pessimist.”

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Topics: Annual Plan, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose, Decisions Equal Success, Annual Planning

Strategy - What is Your Winning Aspiration?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 27, 2018

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Great strategy is making choices.

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Build A Cathedral – OUTthinkers Strategy: BE GOOD

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 31, 2017

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Brick Layers

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Transparency Raises Belief and Commitment

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Mar 9, 2017

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Over the weekend, I watched HBO’s The Gathering Storm and Into the Storm, the story of Winston Churchill’s climb, tenure, and eventual departure as Prime Minister of the British Empire.

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