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Cancer Cured: No One Is Guilty, I Am Responsible

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 25, 2022

IIn 2012 I spent 8 months in the hospital battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia. For the past 6 years, I’ve been writing a book about my journey and miraculous recovery.

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, Discipline Plan, Cancer Cured, Mental Health

CEO TEST - #1 Can You Develop a Simple Plan for Your Strategy

Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Aug 2, 2021

The CEO Test: Master The Challenges That Make Or Break All Leaders, authors Adam Bryant, and Kevin Sharer provide the key elements a CEO needs for success. This is not a touchy-feely book, although it does address the need for establishing culture. Nor is it a prescriptive book about how to create the right strategy. It reveals Seven Key Tests to be a successful CEO with key insights from leaders who are provided as examples.

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Topics: Discipline Plan, Strategy Decision, Strategy - How, Strategy Question, Competitive Strategy, The CEO Test

Establish a Routine - Double Results

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 28, 2020

In Stillness Is the Key Ryan Holiday asks, Isn’t the whole point of greatness that you’re freed from trivial rules and regulations? That you can do whatever you want?”

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Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Discipline Plan, routine sets you free, routine, Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key

Discipline - How to Achieve Greatness!

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 30, 2019

“The flywheel fits within a framework of principles we uncovered through more than a quarter-century of research into the question of what makes a great company tick.”

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Topics: Good to Great, Discipline Plan, Culture of Discipline, Turning the Flywheel, Business Discipline

The Flywheel - A Customer Example

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 6, 2019

Why create a flywheel for your business?

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Discipline Plan, Culture of Discipline, Jim Collins, Build up to Breakthrough Flywheel, Turning the Flywheel, Flywheel

A Map – The Journey from Good To Great

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 22, 2019

Many customers ask, how do we apply Jim Collins’ work to make the leap from Good to Great?

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Discipline Plan, Culture of Discipline, Jim Collins, Build up to Breakthrough Flywheel, Turning the Flywheel, Flywheel, Roadmap from Good to Great

How Long To Create a Habit?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 12, 2018

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” 

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Topics: Discipline, Discipline Plan, Businesss Disciplines, habits, Winning Habit

Questioning Your Ability to Make Good Choices

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Oct 15, 2015

How would you grade your decision-making capability?  How is your leadership team at making decisions?

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Decision-Making, planning, Discipline Plan, Annual Plan, strategy decisions

What’s Your One Thing (3X)

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Oct 8, 2015

What if your business had set an annual priority and failed to achieve it?

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Topics: Discipline, One Thing, Discipline Plan, fanatic discipline

Updated Discipline: New Rockefeller Habits Checklist

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 26, 2015

How important do you value discipline in your organization?  How much thought if any do you give to it? 

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Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Great by Choice, Discipline Plan, Culture of Discipline, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Scaling Up Verne Harnish

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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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