Strategic Discipline Blog

As a radio station sales manager, it was challenging to find people who could sell.

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Topics: human behavior, hiring decisions, human behavior performance, Hiring, Danny Meyer, Setting the Table, High Performance Culture, Standards of Excellence, Hiring Rule

How do you develop standards of excellence?

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Topics: human behavior, human behavior performance, Danny Meyer, Standards of Excellence, Success Forces, Clean Your Desk, Joe Sugarman

In The Fuel for High Performing Teams, we shared the critical factor for driving high performance. Culture has been said to eat strategy for lunch.

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Topics: human behavior, Q12, human behavior performance, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey, Culture

Can your people solve their own problems? (Can they solve them better than YOU?)

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Topics: human behavior, human behavior performance, Human Potential, Humanocracy

There are times we need someone to believe in us, to see beyond ourselves, to recognize our strengths, our purpose, to challenge us to greatness.

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Topics: human behavior, human behavior performance, Human Potential, Humanocracy, The Flight of the Buffalo, Ralph Stayer

We should know this.  Leadership is not a thing. 

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Topics: human behavior, human behavior performance, People Development, Nine Lies About Work, EXCELLENCE IS IDIOSYNCRATIC, Responsibility

“There is no such thing as having potential. Or rather, there is, but it doesn’t mean anything.”

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Topics: employee performance, human behavior, human behavior performance, Performance Management, Human Potential, People Development, Nine Lies About Work

Have you ever tried to drink from a firehose?  Probably not.

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Topics: People, Growth Summit, human behavior, Execution, Dalllas Growth Summit, Human Potential

A 14 hour travel day can get pretty boring even if you sprinkle in the occasional joke, predictable encounter with rude motorist, and share it with family members.  This past week I traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to scratch off an item from my bucket list: Gettysburg Battlefield.  On the way there I unleashed a practice on my two sons I’d learned in Dale Carnegie training many years back. It is absolutely guaranteed to raise the self-esteem of the people who participate. 

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Topics: Employee Recognition, People, People/Relationship Drivers, human behavior, human behavior performance, superior human relations

Have you ever been around a person in love?  Women especially can intuitively feel when someone is in love.  People in love seem to get along with everyone. They’re happy, cheerful, even charming.

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Topics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, human behavior, Relationship Drivers, human behavior performance, superior human relations, Law of Indirect Action, Psychology of Achievement, Brian Tracy