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When to Change Your Top Priorities

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Mar 8, 2012

In less than 24 hours ten days ago, from Friday to Saturday the following day, my world spun 180 degrees or more. (See A Personal Story – Can You Sell Your Business?)

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Topics: Discipline, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, quarterly meetings, Strategic Discipline, change, Compounding

Key Performance Indicators – Your Reality Check

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Feb 29, 2012

Yesterday my reality check came.

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, leading indicators, key performance indicators, Key Metrics

Business Alignment – Why Don’t Your People Get It?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Feb 23, 2012

Last blog we discussed how as your company grows and expands it seems harder and harder to communicate your vision.  People at the tactical level of your company often don’t know what the strategy for your business is.  In fact they don’t know a lot of things that are important for them to know about your business.  There’s often a huge gap on how they work with prospects and customers due to poor communication of your vision and strategy, let alone company policies.

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Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, One Page Strategic Plan, priorities, metrics, Alignment

Three Reasons You Need the One Page Strategic Plan

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 20, 2012

As your business grows does it seem like it’s been harder and harder to keep everyone on the same page?  The larger you get does it feel like the vision and strategy you had that seemed so clear has become foggier to you and the people you lead?

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, One Page Strategic Plan, Alignment

Strategic Discipline – Why It Guarantees Success

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Feb 16, 2012

Albert Einstein, Compound Effect author, Success Magazine Publisher Darren Hardy, and  Strategic Learning author Willie Pietersen all agree. Focus and compounding are the two most powerful forces in the universe.  Developing clarity of focus is your springboard. 

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, priorities, metrics, Two Day Rockefeller Habits Workshop

Rip Van Winkle’s Leadership Lesson from Martin Luther King

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sun, Jan 15, 2012

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

Relieve Stress With Meeting Rhythms

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Dec 15, 2011

At this time of year it’s very common to find people exhibiting high stress levels.  A trip for groceries, or to the hardware store, takes a bit longer due to long lines and depending on where you live the weather.

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Topics: Accountability, Strategic Discipline, meeting rhythms, metrics, The Power of Full Engagement, stress

Strategic Discipline Inspiring the Team Video

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 31, 2011

At the Growth Summit in Phoenix Gazelles created a fun video I’d like to invite you to view.  It’s a fun presentation of what many company’s face in terms of planning and detachment.  How do you conquer both?  If your business is struggling to execute on your annual and quarterly plans, Strategic Discipline through a steady dose of the Rockefeller Habits tools is Positioning Systems’ recipe for success.   

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Topics: quarterly meetings, Strategic Discipline, Annual Plan, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions, Execution

Do You Have the Discipline to Handle an Unexpected Economy?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 24, 2011

In Jim Collin’s new book Great by Choice he asks the question:  What’s coming next?

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Topics: Strategic Discipline, Annual Plan, Jim Collins

Jim Collins' New Book “Great By Choice” Supports Strategic Discipline

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Tue, Oct 18, 2011

At Positioning Systems and Gazelles you know by now that we’re big fans of Jim Collins books Good to Great, Built to Last, and How the Mighty Fall.  When Collins new book, Great by Choice arrived last week I just had to pick it up.  If you receive Verne Harnish’s weekly newsletter you know that he’s reading it as well. 

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Topics: Discipline, Good to Great, Strategic Discipline, Great by Choice, Jim Collins

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