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Four Decisions – People

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 30, 2012

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Topics: employee engagement, Core Values, People, Core Purpose, Four Decisions, BHAG

Performance Trumps Everything Right?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 9, 2012

In your business do you place the highest priority on measuring performance and productivity?  Sales revenue, units sold, profit margin, efficiency standards.  Are these gold standard in your business?

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Topics: Net Promoter Score, employee engagement, Core Values, employee performance, Core Purpose

Employee Engagement: Inspire Your Team

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Tue, Jan 3, 2012

Are you ready to get 2012 off to a roaring start?  Would you like to get your team more inspired this year?  Mike Schulte, Fleck Sales, earlier this year shared a video on what inspires your team.  People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.  It’s the soft spot in your business that is frequently ignored or not valued as critically as is required.  This subjective aspect of your business is included as Core Values, Core Purpose on your One Page Strategic Plan.  They are often overlooked.  Jim Collins in Built to Last, and Good to Great provided supportive proof that these elements are critical to business success.  This video Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action offers insight into why you need the “WHY” in your business.

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Topics: employee engagement, Core Values, Core Purpose, performance

Employee Engagement: Answer These Employee Questions?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Jul 6, 2011

In Leadership’s Mission we discussed the critical need to satisfy spiritual resources first in building your business.  Win the hearts and minds of your employees and then the right strategy pays dividends.  The question becomes, how do you accomplish this and exactly what questions do my employees have that I need to satisfy.

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Core Values, Core Purpose, meeting rhythms, Strategic Learning

Leadership’s First Mission: Fulfill Spiritual Resources

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 27, 2011

Several of my clients and prospects have recently asked for my coaching help to elevate the management teams in their organizations.  The question often asked is how do you go about improving leaders and managers?

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Topics: Good to Great, Core Values, leadership, Core Purpose, Jim Collins

Discipline – Why Hard Is Good For You. - Rackspace Houston Growth Summit Cont.

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, May 13, 2011

Please forgive the length of my last blog.  Believe it or not it was longer but I edited some things out.  I’m afraid I was suffering from education overload.  Each day we start the Growth Summit at 8 AM.  When that concludes at 4 PM Gazelles coaches gather for another two plus hours in additional education and planning. 

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Topics: Discipline, Net Promoter Score, Core Values, Growth Summit, Brand Promise

Overlooked Critical Business Success Discipline

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jan 6, 2011

How are you feeling about your business today?  We invest a great deal of time and energy on the Strategic Disciplines of meeting rhythms, metrics, priorities, and work process flow charts.  These are all objective elements to running a successful business.  There is another perhaps more subtle yet just as critical aspect to running a successful business and that is the subjective - the raw emotions that it takes to provide the energy that drives your business.

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Topics: Discipline, Core Values, Aubrey Daniels, The Power of Full Engagement

Is Life Fair – Strategic Discipline Interview Questions

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 7, 2010

"Life isn't fair, get used to it!"   "Fair is something you take your pigs to in the fall!"

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Core Values, Discipline Plan, Zappos, Locus of Control

Biggest Issue Facing Business Accountability

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 27, 2010

Patrick Lencioni, author of Five Dysfunctions of Team, Death by Meeting, The Five Temptations of a CEO, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, The Dream Manager, and most recently Getting Naked spoke to our group of Gazelles coaches at our monthly meeting on Monday.

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Topics: Accountability, Strategic Discipline, Core Values, Zappos

Motivation Versus Inspiration – Zappos Core Values

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sat, May 1, 2010

The substance of Zappos Core Values provides a huge difference between motivation and inspiration.   Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO indicates that once you get your vision, culture and purpose right you needn't worry about motivation. 

Tony is very big on having a meaningful higher purpose.  It's the reason he's writing a book Delivering Happiness due June 7th.

 

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Topics: One Thing, Core Values, Business Vision, Zappos, Business Development Tool

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The Strategic Discipline Blog focuses on midsize business owners with a ravenous appetite to improve his or her leadership skills and business results.

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