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Scaling any business is challenging. In Masters of Scale Reid Hoffman shares the story of Danny Meyer, who first opened Union Square Cafe in 1985, and whose restaurant company now extends beyond just restaurants to include Shake Shack, operational consulting, multifaceted catering and events business, Union Square Events, and a growth fund, under the umbrella of Enlightened Hospitality Investments (EHI).
Read MoreTopics: customer service, priority, Scale Up, Reid Hoffman, Enlightened Hospitality, Masters of Scale
In Love is Free. Guac is Extra.: How Vulnerability, Empowerment, and Curiosity Built an Unstoppable Team, Monty Moran shares the decisions he made on Chipotle’s priorities, “If the most important skill of a leader is to build a strong team, the second most important skill is the ability to make many good decisions, quickly. Of course, in some ways, this is a distinction without a difference, since building strong teams requires many good decisions.”
Read MoreTopics: Top Priority, Business Priorities, priority, The One Thing, Monty Moran, Love is Free. Gauc is Extra
Verne Harnish hosted another virtual Summit with 3 speakers (click the link to watch the replay) on Wednesday, February 24th.
Read MoreTopics: People, People/Relationship Drivers, leadership, priority, Effective Leadership, Chipotle, Vulnerability, Monty Moran, Love is Free. Gauc is Extra
Verne Harnish, Author of Scaling Up, issued our first quarterly magazine, SCALING UP! I’m honored to be the first coach selected for the Coaches Corner highlight, which features a Gazelles coached customer who achieved success using the Scaling Up/Rockefeller Habits principles. Printed with permission by the editors of Scaling Up, and Verne Harnish, with special thanks to Elaine Pofeldt, who wrote this article, and is helping me with my book on my cancer journey, here is the article from the first issue of SCALING UP. You can visit the entire magazine here.
Read MoreTopics: priority, Scaling Up Verne Harnish, The One Thing, Pricing, Phil Lieber, P&L Technology
Topics: Strategic Discipline, Cadence of Accountability, meeting rhythms, priority, Execution, Key Metrics
The most rewarding part of being a business coach is watching the business and people you coach grow and succeed. If you’re in business, I’m sure you share this feeling.
Read MoreTopics: Discipline, priority, Leadership DNA, Effective Leadership, Attitude, Trends
In my experience a lot of business leadership teams invest an exorbitant amount of time discussing and making changes on the wheels of the vehicle the company is driving, while very little time is invested in the direction for the vehicle the ultimate destination.
Read MoreTopics: quarterly meetings, One Thing, Top Priority, Annual Plan, priority, quarterly plan, Scrum
In Purpose - The Dickens of Your One Thing, Ebenezer Scrooge discovered, life is driven by the purpose we give it. There’s a catch Scrooge confronted. Purpose shapes our lives only in direct proportion to the power of the priority you and I connect it to.
Read MoreTopics: One Thing, planning, Top Priority, priority, Willpower, Power in the Moment
Topics: One Thing, Top Priority, Annual Plan, priority, quarterly plan
A foundational principal we will teach at the Scaling Up Workshop on Wednesday at our November 11th Scaling Up Workshop in Cedar Rapids, IA is One Thing. We recommend that when choosing a priority you choose One Thing for the year or your quarter to choose to focus on. It’s based on the principal that less is more.
Read MoreTopics: Decision-Making, One Thing, priority, time management
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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
