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The most productive and valuable piece of the weekly meeting is Collective Intelligence. Collective Intelligence is a benchmark in every weekly meeting to solve bottlenecks using the collective genius of the team. CI is perhaps the greatest value of the weekly meeting rhythm.
Read MoreTopics: weekly meetings, collective intelligence, People
In our last blog Amazon’s Culture Flaws? we shared the NY Times article Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. Remarks from employees suggest increased pressure in Amazon’s environment to perform.
Read MoreTopics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, leadership, A Players, Leadership Team
Is it possible to balance high performance in the workplace with a culture that provides personal liberty, freedom and work-life balance?
Read MoreTopics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, metrics, measurement, How the Mighty Fall,
A Culture of Accountability is the outcome of getting People Decision right in your organization.
Read MoreTopics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, People Decisions, Great Game of Business
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.
Read MoreTopics: Employee Recognition, People, People/Relationship Drivers, human behavior, human behavior performance, superior human relations
In our previous blog SmartTribes – How to Deliver Accountability we offered how Christine Comaford gets accountability in the DNA of developing SmartTribes by building “containers.” Containers are the structures that enable a group of people to achieve real accountability across the board, pulling together like a synchronized rowing team. She offers four key practices that will help you do that:
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, People, Business Development Tool, Smart Tribes
You’re probably not old enough to remember a TV program that a gentleman by the name of Art Linkletter hosted. You may remember the program from 1995 when Bill Cosby hosted it. It was called Kid’s Say the Darndest Things.
Read MoreTopics: People, Brian Tracy
This week in a weekly meeting with one of my customers the team discussed how they’d failed to follow through on a specific assignment they’d discussed for a father’s day promotion. It started as a brainstorming session and wrapped up with an idea to promote a specific product. Everyone agreed that it was a great idea, yet no one took responsibility to implement it and take initiative. (For more on this subject check out The Leadership Difference - Responsibility and Accountability.)
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, People, People Decisions
What can managers do to improve their people? Our review of the resources and tools that Rockefeller Habits and Positioning Systems can provide your growing enterprise continues with a look at the remaining tools we provide our customers with to improve People. You can read the first group of People tools and resources at Rockefeller Habits 4 Decisions Tools – People.
Topics: Business Growth, People, Four Decisions, Topgrading, One on One coaching, Orientation and Onboarding
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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.
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