Remember the story of Rip Van Winkle? You probably remember he slept for 20 years, but little else.
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Topics: Strategic Discipline, change, leadership, meeting rhythms, priorities, metrics
You've heard the story of the boss who has two rules: Rule #1 The Boss is Always Right. Rule #2 When the boss is wrong, refer to Rule #1.
In many companies this time of year for annual planning revolves around one person making plans, usually the president or owner(s). The reason this occurs is often multiple. First the business owner started the business and in order for the business to grow it’s always been dependent upon him/her to make the plans. Another reason is that getting input from others takes time, precious time that many owners and company presidents don’t have or don’t care to take. Habits are hard to break. Setting directives and being in a commanding if not dominate position has worked in the past. It’s decisive, impactful, quick, and if it’s gotten results in the past there’s no reason to change.
As your business grows however the problem with this one person or small group making all the decisions on direction, objectives, and priorities is its limited ability to take into account all the obstacles and challenges that your priorities might face.
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Topics: collective intelligence, Annual Plan, meeting rhythms, priorities
If you’ve not seen Dan Pink's video yet RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us, I urge you to view it. Pink presented his views on human behavior and motivation during the Phoenix Growth Summit. I’ll have more on his offerings in future blogs.
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Topics: priorities, Growth Summit, human behavior, productivity, Balance
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Topics: planning, One Page Strategic Plan, priorities, strategy
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Topics: Employee Feedback, weekly meetings, positive reinforcement, priorities, Balance
Every day, depending on the area you live in, you see this universal symbol telling you when to stop or go. As part of Strategic Discipline we expect our clients to provide metrics for their company, team and individual performance. It’s a part of the weekly meeting agenda. That might seem sufficient to provide accountability, yet when conducting meetings we feel it’s important to dispense with the numbers as quickly as possible in order to get to the meatier topics that can help the business build momentum. The metrics need to communicate quickly whether success is being achieved or there’s work to be done.
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Topics: Accountability, priorities, success criteria, Business Dashboards, metrics, meetings, Dashboards, Individual Dashboard
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Topics: Accountability, weekly meetings, priorities, Pearsons Law, metrics
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Topics: Discipline, Customer Feedback, Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, priorities, metrics, The Compound Effect
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Topics: Discipline, Success, priorities
As publisher of Success Magazine for 15 years, having interviewed countless successful people pursuing his passion to provide his readers with an alternative to the negative news media stories that predominate today’s communication channels, Darren Hardy is an authority on success. Darren admitted to being a self achievement addict. He’s discovered there is a big difference between over achievers and super achievers. The difference however he’s discovered is not what they do.
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Topics: Discipline, One Thing, Success, priorities, Compounding
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