Fred Smith’s vision and focus helped drive FedEx to become one of the most successful companies in the world.
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Topics: Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Business Driver, KFFM (Key Function Flow Map), FedEx
Discovering Your Hedgehog Concept – Your Move To Greatness?
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 4, 2019
Many consider Good to Great by Jim Collins the seminal book for creating a great business.
Read MoreTopics: Good to Great, Jim Collins, Hedgehog Concept, One Phrase Strategy, Strategic Advisory Council
Proactive or Reactive: How the Hedgehog Concept Changes Your Focus
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 5, 2016
Topics: Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, Brand Promise Guarantee, Best in the World at
Topics: The Inside Advantage, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, Brand Promise Guarantee, Positioning Systems Brand Promise, Sandbox
Double Bonus – Customer Discovers X Factor and Profit Per X
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 29, 2016
Topics: Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, X Factor, Scaling Up Workshops
Topics: Good to Great, Core Purpose, Jim Collins, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise
Creating your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) as Jim Collins describes and shares, is an iterative process. It rarely is achieved in a few meetings, or without completing several very important milestones for your business. Included in these are these three elements of your Hedgehog Concept: Core Purpose, Profit Per X and Brand Promise.
Read MoreTopics: Core Purpose, The Inside Advantage, WHO WHAT HOW The Inside Advantage, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Brand Promise, BHAG
My plan for this blog originally was the irony of freedom. The past three days working with an enthusiastic and dedicated group of leaders from a new customer who started with me in February for a private two day Rockefeller Habits Workshop. They’d previously attended the Four Decision Workshop in November.
Topics: quarterly meetings, Core Purpose, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, BHAG, Core Competencies, quarterly plan, Quarterly Victories
Take Your Company from Good to Great – Jim Collins 12 Questions: #3-5
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Apr 2, 2015
Topics: Good to Great, Business Growth, Jim Collins, Hedgehog Concept, Stockdale Paradox, 20 Mile March
What’s Your Passion? What Are You Best At? (Hedgehog Concept)
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 11, 2013
In The Hedgehog Concept we discussed the intersection of three circles that provide your One Thing Focus for the strategy of your business. Where do you find or discover the elements that comprise the three circles? If you’ve completed portions of your One Page Strategic Plan you’ll have made progress toward understanding what these are.
Topics: Core Purpose, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, Patrick Lencioni, Profit per X, Hedgehog Concept, Organizational Health, Brand Promise, BHAG, Brand Ideal