I’m excited. When my clients respond and do something that is powerful and gets them excited I am too! Yesterday I got a PowerPoint from one of my client’s sharing their theme for the company for their first trimester of 2013! It was incredibly well done, simple, powerful, clear and concise! It’s their first effort to establish the Rockefeller Habits theme process although we’ve been working together for some time. That’s often a good idea. Start simple with the process of Strategic Discipline. Less is More! Get your leadership team fully understanding the fundamentals and then move forward with your theme to the company fully when you have your sea legs.
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Topics:
Strategic Discipline,
One Thing,
themes,
Businesss Disciplines,
Bone Marrow Transplant,
Graft-Versus-Host Disease,
GVHD,
4 Disciplines of Execution
In Top Ten Elements to Drive Business Growth - 4-3-2-1 Formula we looked at the elements that Gazelles and Positioning Systems focus on to drive growth in small to mid-sized businesses. These are fundamentals that Jim Collins discovered in his groundbreaking book Good to Great and have been further confirmed by studies at Harvard Business Review.
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Topics:
Strategic Discipline,
Coach Advisor,
Catalyst,
Culture of Discipline,
Consultant
From the outbreak of the Civil War until July 1863 General Robert E Lee, commander of the rebel Confederate forces was able to repulse, evade, and defeat a much superior size and equipped army of the Potomac. He relied on precise, accurate information about the movement of his adversary as provided for him by his cavalry commander Jeb Stuart. This flamboyant, attention seeking, audacious, Major General provided reliable information that allowed Lee to at one point to divide his inferior forces and capture an important victory at the battle of Chancellorsville. That confidence building victory propelled Lee to invade the North in June of 1863 bent on dealing the Union a crippling blow that would capture Washington DC and bring Great Britain to the Confederate forces aid.
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Topics:
Strategic Discipline,
leading indicators,
leading and lagging indicators,
Four Disciplines of Execution,
Execution
In Top Ten Elements to Drive Business Growth - 4-3-2-1 Formula we provided Four Decisions, Three Disciplines, Two Drivers and One Catalyst as the keys to grow your small to mid-sized business. The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling suggests there are Four Disciplines and supports this with examples and evidence of companies who have achieved success following these four disciplines.
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Topics:
Discipline,
Strategic Discipline,
Four Disciplines of Execution,
Execution,
4 Disciplines of Execution,
top priorities,
Wildly Important Goals
I’ve always been a believer in being thankful, however the process of meditation, reading and learning from Dr. Joe Dispenza’s book “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself” has dramatically changed my belief to an absolute. Dispenza believes there are elevated emotions and survival emotions. As we get to middle age we are even more susceptible to survival emotions which is why many resort to addictive tendencies. Fortunately if we gravitate to the higher “elevated” emotions we can break our bad habits and become who we truly are and desire to be.
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Topics:
Strategic Discipline,
Elevated Emotions,
Gratitude and Recognition
All customers are not created equal. That’s one part of the message in How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In, by authors Rick Kash, David Calhoun. With some customers being more valuable than others it’s important to discover which are, and also to be aware of how your market is changing to understand latent, and emerging demands. The world has already changed to a demand driven economy. In order to be in the forefront and capitalize and even survive your business will require a higher level understanding of your customers and how to market to them.
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Topics:
Customer Feedback,
Strategic Discipline,
Demand Based Economy
Life can be ironic. Positioning System's fundamental coaching principles surround the ideals of discipline. The reason Positioning Systems focuses on Strategic Discipline for meetings, metrics, and priorities is due to my personal beliefs in the foundational teachings from Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and Jim Collins in Good to Great. They remain to me the most important element in achieving business growth and success.
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Topics:
Discipline,
Good to Great,
Acute Myeloid Luekemia,
Strategic Discipline,
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits,
Jim Collins,
Bone Marrow Transplant
Yesterday I re-entered the hospital. It goes without saying that I must trust the doctors, nurses and health care for bone marrow transplant that is planned for me.
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Topics:
Acute Myeloid Luekemia,
Strategic Discipline,
People,
performance,
Trusted Advisor
One of my very good clients in Florida is a season ticket holder for the Florida Marlins. Naturally he’s been very disappointed this year with the Marlin’s performance. Expectations were high with opening a new stadium, brought in a new manager (Ozzie Guillen) and new ball players (Jose Reyes) to make a strong drive for the playoffs and possibly the World Series.
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Topics:
Acute Myeloid Luekemia,
Strategic Discipline,
meeting rhythms,
priorities,
metrics
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