Strategic Discipline Blog

Small to mid-size business require Four Decisions to achieve sustainable growth. 

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Topics: Four Decisions, How Does Your Business Measure Up, Four Decisions Needs Assesment

GROWTH SUCKS CASH!

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Topics: Four Decisions, Cash Conversion Cycle, Cash, Growth Sucks Cash

My youngest son Noah recently got his first job.  (Coincidently on the same day he learned he would receive a sizeable scholarship to University of Iowa that should cover most of his tuition for four years!)

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Topics: Four Decisions, Scaling Up Workshops, The One Thing

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Topics: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions, Education & Training, Scaling Up Verne Harnish

If you’ve been following this blog you know we’ve been covering the Four Decisions in growing your business that you must get right or risk leaving significant revenues, profits, and time on the table. These four decisions: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.  We’ve been sharing the Four Decision Growth Tools we provide for our Gazelles and Positioning Systems Customers to help them to consistently grow their business. 

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Topics: Four Decisions, Cash, Fundability Optimization Checklist, Recurring Revenue, Increase Equity Value of Company

In life and in business your decisions equal success.  I’m reading an excellent book by Richard Flint, Behavior Never Lies.  It reinforces much of our Gazelles and Rockefeller Habits resources and coaching. On the need for clarity, and how important that the essence of any person is not what they say, but rather what they do.  In your business do your actions, your decisions contradict what you say?   If so you will have a trust problem with your people.  I’ll explore the book further in a future blog.

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Topics: Four Decisions, Cash, Power of One, Labor Efficiency Ratio, Your Cash Flow Story

Our last several blogs have discussed the importance of four critical decisions and the role they play in the success of your business.  Decisions equal success – and there are four decisions, in growing your business, that you must get right or risk leaving significant revenues, profits, and time on the table. These four decisions are: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. Even though most growth firms face continual challenges in all four areas, at any one time the challenges in one of these areas overshadows the rest. Therefore, your first decision is to choose which one of the four to focus on next.

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Topics: Four Decisions, Cash Conversion Cycle, Cash, Four Forces of Cash Flow, Growth Sucks Cash, How Fast Can Your Business Grow?

Our final blog on Execution Decisions focuses on displaying and monitoring your metrics.  In the Four Executions Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling, their Fourth Discipline is Dashboards. In Positioning Systems and Gazelles Coaching we include dashboards within the execution discipline of metrics. 

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Topics: Four Decisions, success criteria, Business Scorecards, Execution, Dashboards

How important is the Execution Decision in your business?  Execution results in achieving higher gross profit margin which translates into higher earnings and net profit.  Execution is all about efficiency and performance.  It’s achieving better results with fewer people, better systems, communication and relationships.  It means effectively translating priorities into metrics, meeting frequently to monitor progress and achieving successful outcomes.

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Topics: themes, Four Decisions, Execution, growth tools, Individual Plan

We continue sharing the Gazelles Growth Tools that Positioning Systems and Gazelles coaches provide for our customers on Execution, one of the Four Decisions your company needs to get right or risk leaving significant revenues, profits, and time on the table. A reminder that these four decisions are: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. 

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Topics: Customer Feedback, Net Promoter Score, Employee Feedback, Four Decisions, Execution, Critical Numbers