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It’s appropriate to discuss responsibility and accountability immediately after the first week of the NCAA tournament. The most recent report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 2014 report indicates employers "stand to lose at least $1.2 billion for every unproductive work hour during the first week of the tournament."
Topics: Accountability, Work Process Flow Charts, People, leadership, reponsibility
Topics: Business Growth, leadership, manager, Leadership Team, effective delegation
Monday I spent 8+ hours with one of my clients working on strategic and annual planning for 2014. I purposely say strategy and planning because they are two separate elements to work on.
Topics: leadership, Compounding, Leadership Team, effective delegation
What’s the number one function of a leader? It’s the ability to predict.
“The fundamental journey of a growing business is to create a predictable engine for generating wealth as it creates products and services that satisfy customer needs and creates an environment that attracts tip talent.” Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
Unless a company has the ability to determine where it is today and project where its’ going to be this week, this month, this quarter, and this year, it’s not on a trajectory for growth. It might not even be on track for survival. A favorite quote of mine is, "When you’re green you grow, when you’re rip you rot!"
Ultimately the reason for imposing structure and instituting systems is to achieve predictability.
This is why Strategic Discipline is such a critical piece to success.
Determine your priorities. Create and monitor metrics. Develop Meeting Rhythms to build a Cadence of Accountability.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, planning, Annual Plan, leadership, strategy, Leadership Team
Topics: People, leadership, Barriers to Business Growth, Leadership Team, . The two most important attributes of effective
We would all like to make better decisions. Would it surprise you to know that how you go about making a decision will have little to do with how your decision turns out? All the time spent agonizing on making the proper choice has little bearing on whether or not it will turnout being the right decision.
Topics: Decision-Making, Leadership Training, leadership
When Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, discovered in 1994 that he may have a tumor the size of a cube of sugar growing in his prostate gland he didn’t take the immediate step his doctor suggested. Visit his urologist.
Topics: Discipline, Great by Choice, 10Xers, leadership, Culture of Discipline, Best Business Practices, 4 Disciplines of Execution, Empirical Creativity
Topics: collective intelligence, leadership, Leadership Team, How the Mighty Fall,
Topics: Catalyst, leadership, Michelle Wick
Developing your leadership skills requires time spent in the kitchen. It requires actually riding the bicycle, cooking the brew, communicating, leading, establishing your presence, and developing your people is a leadership evolution process.
Topics: Discipline, Business Growth, leadership, meeting rhythms, routine, Strength Based Leadership
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Doug Wick, President
Positioning Systems
The Strategic Discipline Blog focuses on midsize business owners with a ravenous appetite to improve his or her leadership skills and business results.
Our 3 disciplines include:
- Priorities
- Metrics
- Meeting Rhythms
