In May of 1941 the Great Britain was facing desperate times. They were alone in the battle against the Nazi Germany and Italy’s Fascist State. The continent of Europe was almost completely occupied by Axis powers and the Mediterranean and coast of North Africa were being attacked as well. This is the setting for one of my favorite wartime movies, Sink the Bismarck.
Strategic Discipline Blog
Meeting Priorities - Either You Have Discipline or You Don’t
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 21, 2013
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, priorities, Pearsons Law, metrics, Businesss Disciplines, Sink the Bismarck
Leadership Development – Strategic Discipline’s Meeting Rhythms
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Jan 16, 2013
Developing your leadership skills requires time spent in the kitchen. It requires actually riding the bicycle, cooking the brew, communicating, leading, establishing your presence, and developing your people is a leadership evolution process.
Topics: Discipline, Business Growth, leadership, meeting rhythms, routine, Strength Based Leadership
Can you remember the anticipation of Christmas Eve when you were a child, or perhaps the joy and satisfaction of going to bed on Christmas night filled with contentment over all the gifts you received that day? I count myself fortunate to have lived in a middle class family where Christmas evening brought us just about everything we wished for each December 24th. It was hard falling asleep both Christmas Eve and then Christmas night in anticipation of what was to come and in complete joy in having received everything you expected. My mother and father were extremely good to us, both in listening to what we wanted and then making sure we received it.
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, leukemia
In Top Ten Elements to Drive Business Growth - 4-3-2-1 Formula we provided Four Decisions, Three Disciplines, Two Drivers and One Catalyst as the keys to grow your small to mid-sized business. The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling suggests there are Four Disciplines and supports this with examples and evidence of companies who have achieved success following these four disciplines.
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Four Disciplines of Execution, Execution, 4 Disciplines of Execution, top priorities, Wildly Important Goals
Life can be ironic. Positioning System's fundamental coaching principles surround the ideals of discipline. The reason Positioning Systems focuses on Strategic Discipline for meetings, metrics, and priorities is due to my personal beliefs in the foundational teachings from Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and Jim Collins in Good to Great. They remain to me the most important element in achieving business growth and success.
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Jim Collins, Bone Marrow Transplant
Topics: Discipline, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, time management, human behavior, The Power of Full Engagement, Michelle Wick
Discernment should be a gift we all have with the talent to use it wisely. One of the greatest challenges we face is how and where we spend our time.
Topics: Discipline, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, priorities, precision and specificity
Grow Author Jim Stengel “Great Leadership Follow Common Practices”
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sun, May 20, 2012
In Creating the Discipline of The Advantage Patrick Lencioni indicated the single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. He provides Four Disciplines that companies need to achieve organizational health.
Topics: Discipline, Business Growth, leadership, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, One Page Strategic Plan, The Advantage, Brand Ideal
In Your Blindside – The Value of Collective Intelligence we discussed the importance of your leadership’s team ability to feel vulnerable in order to develop trust.
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Patrick Lencioni, Organizational Health, The Advantage
Business Differentiation Requires Work Process Flow Charts
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Mar 21, 2012
Topics: Discipline, Work Process Flow Charts, competitive advantage, benchmarks