You can expect something, but until it happens you never truly know how you are going to feel.
Strategic Discipline Blog
Topics: Discipline, People, Give and Take, Givers and Takers, Michelle Wick
Chuck Noll Leadership Lessons – Discipline & Confronting the Brutal Facts
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jun 26, 2014
After a couple of games where his Pittsburgh Steelers hadn’t played very well, Chuck Noll called his team after practice to put a ”boot up the ass” and jolt them out of their complacency. According to Rocky Bleier this is what he said,
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, leadership
As most of you may know a little over two years ago I was projected to be another statistic of cancer. With very slim odds (less than 10% initially) through some miraculous events my Acute Myeloid Leukemia found its way into remission. I received a bone marrow transplant from a generous donor in September of 2012. The road back hasn’t been easy. While my healing may be remarkable, in many ways this achievement may not be as difficult as what each of you face each and every day. Rather than diminish what was accomplished, this is to elevate what you and every other person on the planet faces as you work to accomplish each day.
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Switch, Discipline Plan, positive reinforcement, The Power of Full Engagement
If doing something once a day is good for business, does doing it twice double the impact?
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Best Business Practices, Leadership Team, daily huddle
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Business Growth, Strategic Discipline, Business Priorities, Business Dashboards, Jim Collins, Businesss Disciplines
Learn the Disciplines - Rockefeller Habits Four Decisions Workshop
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Aug 23, 2013
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Strategic Discipline, Culture of Discipline, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions
Great by Choice 10Xer’s Empirical Creativity – Andy Grove Intel
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 22, 2013
When Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, discovered in 1994 that he may have a tumor the size of a cube of sugar growing in his prostate gland he didn’t take the immediate step his doctor suggested. Visit his urologist.
Topics: Discipline, Great by Choice, 10Xers, leadership, Culture of Discipline, Best Business Practices, 4 Disciplines of Execution, Empirical Creativity
The Discipline Challenge – Rockefeller Habits Checklist
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 1, 2013
What’s the problem with discipline? Repeatedly in this blog and in the works of Jim Collins in Good to Great, Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fal, Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage, The Four Disciplines of Execution, and many other best practice and top thought leadership books we hear the principles of discipline continuously cited as critical to reaching success.
Topics: Discipline, Great by Choice, Businesss Disciplines, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Alan Rudy
The greatest marketer and innovator on the planet returns to his former company, Apple, and what is his first step? In Great by Choice, Jim Collins uses Apple as one of the comparison companies. His research looked at 1972-2002, and Steve Jobs didn’t return to Apple until 1997. But consider Jobs’ first move:
Topics: Discipline, Great by Choice, Discipline Plan, best practices of growth companies, Best Business Practices, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Steve Jobs