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Suppose you or one of your parents suffers from chronic hip pain caused by arthritis. Drugs to treat the pain no longer provide relief. The option becomes hip replacement surgery, invasive surgery that requires slicing open the thigh, wrenching the bone out of the socket, sawing off the arthritic end and replacing it with an implant. In addition recovery from this surgery is long and painful.
Topics: Decision Paralysis, One Thing, Switch, Four Decisions
A singular focus [One Thing] can have a profound effect on your business. In April of last year one of my clients [name withheld to protect business secrets] had Positioning Systems come to his office in California to conduct our Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop. At the time their business was lagging 7% behind the previous year and struggling to get traction. Among the many ideas and actions that had an immediate impact was to go through the Strength Based Leadership Test and identify where his executive talents were. At the time the business was struggling to execute in the field and we identified several of the executive that had execution themes, reassigned them to positions were they could have the greatest affect and influence on the business. We reassigned others based on their top themes and the results were almost immediate and dramatic. By year end they turned their 7% decline into a 15% gain for the year.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, One Thing, meeting rhythms, priorities, metrics, Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop, Strength Based Leadership
In our last blog NFL Winning Formula – Rhythm we discussed the value or routine in building a successful business model and how this mirrors successful sports team formulas.
Topics: One Thing, priorities, priority, top priorities
A weekend ago I was in Port Washington spending time with my oldest son, his wife and my grandchild, Sophia Daniela . I’m a grandfather for the first time, with two sons at home twelve and fifteen. Watching my two youngest boys, my wife, my oldest son, and his wife enthralled with this young darling of 6 weeks was amazing. It brought back emotional memories of when my three sons were all little and how important they were to me at that time. For my oldest and his wife Kim, Sophia was all they could talk about. If you’ve had children you know a baby completely changes your life, not only your schedule but how you prioritize. Can you remember how children changed your life? Chances are you can’t now. Become a grandfather, and you’ll suddenly be enlightened again. It was what this visit was about. To meet her. To get to know her. To give her our love.
Topics: One Thing, Top Priority, priorities
This week I spent about 16-20 intense hours working with a client’s executive team developing their strategic focus through Gazelles Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop. In Willie Pietersen’s book Strategic Learning he indicates that focus and compounding are the two most powerful forces in the universe. Developing clarity of focus is your springboard. Albert Einstein called compound interest the most powerful force in the universe. [Compounding is reinvesting the income on an investment and watching your principle grow. It grows exponentially over time. See Chart below.]
Topics: Strategic Discipline, One Thing, priorities, Focus, Strategic Planning, Compounding
It's discouraging to discover that if you're spending time on your proposal, talking about your solution, your company and the future you're putting your focus on the wrong things to make a sale.
Topics: Sales Process, One Thing, One Page Strategic Plan, Sales Discipline, Diagnostic Business Development Process
The substance of Zappos Core Values provides a huge difference between motivation and inspiration. Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO indicates that once you get your vision, culture and purpose right you needn't worry about motivation.
Tony is very big on having a meaningful higher purpose. It's the reason he's writing a book Delivering Happiness due June 7th.
Topics: One Thing, Core Values, Business Vision, Zappos, Business Development Tool
Travel and a Two Day Private Rockefeller Habits workshop prevented me from blogging earlier. Today's 1st day of the workshop with my client reinforced the message from Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO. If you don't know the story of Zappos check them out. Tony started the business in 1999 and completed stock sale to Amazon in November 2009 for $1.2 Billion. He knows a little bit about success.
Topics: One Thing, Core Values, Growth Summit, Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop, Zappos
John D Rockefeller life is told in the book Titan by Ron Chernow. Much has been said about the man often claimed to be the richest man in the world. Verne Harnish, founder of Gazelles put Rockefeller's genius for business into a book, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which distills his principles into a remarkably insightful 150 pages.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, One Thing, Top Priority, meeting rhythms, priorities, metrics
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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
