How important do you value discipline in your organization? How much thought if any do you give to it?
Strategic Discipline Blog
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Great by Choice, Discipline Plan, Culture of Discipline, Rockefeller Habits Checklist, Scaling Up Verne Harnish
Practical Discipline #3 Where to Put Your Best People: Good To Great
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Dec 18, 2014
Topics: Good to Great, Business Growth, People, People Decisions, Discipline Plan, Practical Discipline #3
How do you build a business model from Good to Great? The answer while not popular is fundamental. We dislike, resist and simply refuse to want more of it in our life: DISCIPLINE
Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Discipline Plan, Rockefeller Habits Checklist
In Tom Verducci’s September 29th article Exit Stage Center on Derek Jeter he provided a number of references to developing habits and routines, along with leadership that in case you missed the article I thought I’d share with you.
Topics: Good to Great, Jim Collins, habits, routine, Derek Jeter
Does the System or Talent Contribute More to Business Growth?
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jul 10, 2014
What’s more important, having a great system or talent?
Does choosing systems fly in the face of Jim Collins, “First Who than What” principle from Good To Great?
Topics: Good to Great, Business Growth, People, Jim Collins, Business System
3 Rules, 5 Attributes Make A Good Company Achieve Business Growth!
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 29, 2014
A number of books I’ve read this past year suggest that being a good company, having a Core Purpose (Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage), and Brand Ideal (Grow by Jim Stengel) and focusing on the humanity of your business can make you not only more successful but more profitable.
Topics: Good to Great, Business Growth, Good Company, Conscious Capitalism
Topics: Good to Great, Core Values, People, People Decisions, Core Purpose, Jim Collins
Topics: Good to Great, Jim Collins, strategy, Hedgehog Concept
Topics: Good to Great, strategy, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Seven Strata of Strategy
Contrasting Monthly Meetings – Get Your Flywheel Started
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 16, 2013
This past week I had the opportunity to speak at length with a prospect that is a big fan of Jim Collins, Good to Great. His business has been growing, doubling revenues in the past 24 months. He’s been responsible for several innovations which have resulted in patents for his company. He’s very aware of the momentum of the flywheel and feels his business is at the point that it’s generating that type of thrust.
Topics: Good to Great, monthly meetings, Jim Collins, Build up to Breakthrough Flywheel