Strategic Discipline Blog

Wouldn’t it be great to have a filter on your hiring and recruiting process that could tell you whether your candidates fit your business? 

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Topics: Core Values, Patrick Lencioni, Jim Collins, Business Vision, The Advantage, Business Culture

This morning during our monthly meeting one of my client’s debated their Core Values.  A year ago they completed them and after reading Patrick Lencioni’s book The Advantage, the owner determined that it would make sense to revisit them based on the definitions of Core Values that Patrick Lencioni had defined in this book. 

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Topics: Core Values, Built to Last, Patrick Lencioni, Jim Collins, The Advantage

What’s it cost your company in terms of hard costs when you hire the wrong person?

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Topics: People Decisions, Jim Collins, hiring decisions, Cost of Mis-hire

Who should your leadership team be made up of?  This depends on the size of your company.  Your leadership team that attends daily huddles, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual planning meetings should be the people that have the greatest impact on your business, and provide critical data and influence on your customers and employees.  Regardless the size of your company your leadership team shouldn’t exceed ten in number.  Beyond this it gets a bit unyielding. 

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Topics: Work Process Flow Charts, Annual Plan, Pearsons Law, Jim Collins, key performance indicators, Leadership Team, How the Mighty Fall,

Last Blog we discussed the irony in life.  Another irony learned through my challenge with AML is the critical value of continuing to network and make connections.  As the CEO of Positioning Systems, and perhaps even more so on a personal level one can tend to pigeon hole yourself on who you associate and make connections with.  You can take a very selfish perspective on who you  should market to, and even who you should have in your network of friends.

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Topics: Good to Great, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, People, Jim Collins

Life can be ironic.  Positioning Systems fundamental coaching principles surround the ideals of discipline.  The reason Positioning Systems focuses on Strategic Discipline for meetings, metrics, and priorities is due to my personal beliefs in the foundational teachings from Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and Jim Collins in Good to Great.  They remain to me the most important element in achieving business growth and success. 

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Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Jim Collins, Bone Marrow Transplant

If you’re not a fan of college football, and you’re a business owner there’s one thing you should pay close attention to for growing your business.  It’s Jim Collins principal for Good To Great, First Who, Then What.  If you look at the college football rankings this week you’ll see a list of teams (Alabama, USC, LSU, Oregon, Oklahoma, Florida State, Georgia and Arkansas) that are perennially on the top ranked college football teams.  Why?

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, People, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions, Jim Collins, A Players

As a Senior E-Myth Consultant for nearly ten years we had a specific process labeled “Special Decision Techniques” that we were able to provide for our clients to help them in decision making.  This process noted four factors that make business decisions difficult:

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Topics: Decision Paralysis, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Great by Choice, Jim Collins, The Right People, How the Mighty Fall,

The range of emotions I’ve been through since learning I had Acute Myeloid Leukemia have often left me exhausted.  Yet another range is the deep appreciation and sense of gratitude.

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Jim Collins, Stockdale Paradox

In Jim Collin’s new book Great by Choice he asks the question:  What’s coming next?

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Annual Plan, Jim Collins