What is preventing your business from growing? Why do only .3% of the nearly 30 Million US businesses every get beyond $10 Million dollars?
Strategic Discipline Blog
Topics: Accountability, Business Growth, Work Process Flow Charts, Barriers to Business Growth, Execution
Let's start by reinforcing an important principle: Will and discipline are far more limited and precious resources than we realize. They must be called upon very selectively.
Topics: employee performance, Execution, The Power of Full Engagement, human behavior performance, Discretionary Effort
Topics: Accountability, meeting rhythms, Death by Meeting, Execution, 4 Disciplines of Execution
Topics: Accountability, Strategic Discipline, whirlwind of business, employee performance, Business Dashboards, The Advantage, Alignment, Execution, 4 Disciplines of Execution, business clarity
Execution Irony – Will Your Business Fail Due to Poor Execution?
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jan 31, 2013
Is it cruel irony that for all the dedication Strategic Discipline concentrates on developing premier execution the reason your business will succeed or fail is not going to be due to how well you execute? Strategic Discipline, flawless execution of determining your priorities, following your metrics and developing consistent accountability patterns through meeting rhythms is really a means to an end.
Topics: counter intuitive business practice, Strategic Discipline, market dynamics, Strategic Learning, Execution, 4 Disciplines of Execution
From the outbreak of the Civil War until July 1863 General Robert E Lee, commander of the rebel Confederate forces was able to repulse, evade, and defeat a much superior size and equipped army of the Potomac. He relied on precise, accurate information about the movement of his adversary as provided for him by his cavalry commander Jeb Stuart. This flamboyant, attention seeking, audacious, Major General provided reliable information that allowed Lee to at one point to divide his inferior forces and capture an important victory at the battle of Chancellorsville. That confidence building victory propelled Lee to invade the North in June of 1863 bent on dealing the Union a crippling blow that would capture Washington DC and bring Great Britain to the Confederate forces aid.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, leading indicators, leading and lagging indicators, Four Disciplines of Execution, Execution
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
If you believe that achieving success is about being in the right place and perhaps being born with a silver spoon in your mouth, then consider the story of Alan Rudy.
Topics: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Execution, Alan Rudy
Growth companies need to get Four Decision right in order to achieve success. These Four Decisions are People, Strategy, Execution and Cash. Depending on the severity of your challenges in these four decision areas, you will ultimately need to choose one of these four decisions as your One Thing for the year and quarterly priorities. We’ve covered the outcome for getting People and Strategy right in your organization in previous blogs.
Topics: measurement, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, consistently execute, Execution
At the Growth Summit in Phoenix Gazelles created a fun video I’d like to invite you to view. It’s a fun presentation of what many company’s face in terms of planning and detachment. How do you conquer both? If your business is struggling to execute on your annual and quarterly plans, Strategic Discipline through a steady dose of the Rockefeller Habits tools is Positioning Systems’ recipe for success.
Topics: quarterly meetings, Strategic Discipline, Annual Plan, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions, Execution