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Travel and a Two Day Private Rockefeller Habits workshop prevented me from blogging earlier. Today's 1st day of the workshop with my client reinforced the message from Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO. If you don't know the story of Zappos check them out. Tony started the business in 1999 and completed stock sale to Amazon in November 2009 for $1.2 Billion. He knows a little bit about success.
Topics: One Thing, Core Values, Growth Summit, Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop, Zappos
In Mastering the Rockefeller Habits Verne Harnish states that to become and remain competitive your company needs three things:
Topics: Core Values, Discipline Plan, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Jim Collins, Business Vision, Strategic Planning, BHAG, 3-5 year plan, Core Competencies, Promise, Page Strategic Plan
A recipe for a great meal is only as good as its presentation. Clarity in your business is only as good as your ability to communicate it and then implement. So perhaps your buying into to the idea of creating a vision for your business as the recipe for growth. What's next? Gazelles One Page Strategic Plan provides clarity and action steps to not only broadcast your intentions but to provide steps to get everyone on board and contributing to the momentum of your top priorities. It's the key to not only achieving clarity in your business, it provides the next action steps. You must not only indicate where you are going, you must give your team a way to climb on board and contribute.
Topics: Business Growth, Core Values, Discipline Plan, One Page Strategic Plan, Business Vision, Strategic Planning
If you’ve been following the markets and the $700 billion financial bailout the most powerful message you can absorb as the market and the financial segment of our economic base absorbs shock waves from the continuing impact of the subprime debacle is this – there’s been a failure in following fundamentals.
Topics: Core Values, Sound fundamentals
“I don’t need core values, I’m just a small business, why do I need to spend time working on core values?”
Topics: Core Values
Can you really improve staff performance? What leads to superior performance, higher employee retention, and a better aligned organization?
Topics: Core Values
Just over two weeks ago I had the honor to be invited to Broomfield, Colorado to attend the Charter School Growth Fund’s 2008 Business Planning Conference as a guest with one of my clients. They had earned the opportunity to compete for one of the Growth Funds Grants and my client asked me to come along to help them with their work toward earning this prestigious awarding process.
Topics: Core Values
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