Strategic Discipline Blog

What if—instead of feeling frustrated or grinding through each day—you actually loved how you lived and worked?

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Topics: goals, human behavior performance, Leadership Core Behavior, Atomic Habits, James Clear, All In: Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results, 1% Plan, 99% Behavior, Change Your Mind Create New Results, NCS Training, Believing, Behaving, Becoming, The Science of Being Great

Five-plus years ago I was introduced to the Drama Triangle at our Scaling Up Growth Summits in Dallas. Follow this link and you’ll discover insights into why you behave as you do, why your employees behave as they do, and most importantly how to adjust to produce a better outcome by using an Outcome Orientation versus a Problem Orientation.

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Topics: leadership, Effective Leadership, Leadership Core Behavior, Contagious Emotions

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him/her, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

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Topics: People, Effective Leadership, Mastering Leadership, People Development, Leadership Core Behavior

Patrick Lencioni’s, feels he should have written his new book, The Motive, first.  He almost decided not to write it because one of the leaders he admires most, Alan Mullaly, disagreed with him on leadership involves suffering.

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Topics: leadership, Patrick Lencioni, leadership commitment, Purpose, Effective Leadership, Leadership Core Behavior, The Motive

In Great by Choice Jim Collins asks and answers: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not?

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Topics: Great by Choice, Productive Paranoia, Effective Leadership, Leadership Core Behavior, Core Behaviors, Leadership Decisions