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Monday morning during the Collective Intelligence portion of one of my customers weekly meetings we engaged in asking the team specific questions from the Q12 Gallup Employee Engagement Processto help solve a specific issue on this company’s top priority for 2013.
Topics: employee engagement, collective intelligence, strategy, Q12, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey
Determining the right strategy is the key to top line revenue growth. Strategy is one of the Four Decisions every growth company MUST get right to succeed. Just a reminder these include People, Strategy, Execution and Cash.
Topics: Decision-Making, Decision Paralysis, Four Decisions, strategy
Topics: Four Decisions, The Inside Advantage, strategy, revenue growth
Over the past two weeks Bob Bloom, author of the Inside Advantage and the New Experts met with two of my clients who are focusing on growing their sales and revenue for 2012.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, One Page Strategic Plan, The Inside Advantage, strategy, consistently execute, Alignment
In today’s world the consumer has turned the tables. Today’s consumer is in a position of power in just about every purchase transaction. That’s just part of the insight you’ll get by reading Bob Bloom’s The New Experts. Bob’s Blog on Five Most Serious Challenges CEO’s face in 2011 will give you quick insight into the consequences this shift in consumer awareness means to your business. I’m afraid these challenges remain for most CEO’s in 2012 as well.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, The Inside Advantage, strategy, Brand Promise, Differentiation, The New Experts
Those of you who read A Lesson from Good To Great Stockdale Paradox – 3rd Biopsy Results know the results from my third biopsy were not what I’d hoped. Thursday evening late I got more bad news about the results from my fourth biopsy. What the doctors had hoped would happen, the good blood cells would return faster and denser than the leukemia did not occur. In fact the mass in my bone marrow increased to 20%, however the Leukemia cells (blast) increased from 71% of the cells to 82%.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Strategic Discipline, One Thing, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, The Inside Advantage, strategy, Stockdale Paradox, Mono Somy 7
Topics: One Page Strategic Plan, Four Decisions, strategy
Twelve tired, sweat covered young men shuffle through the hall toward a classroom. Each chooses a desk to sit in, plops themselves down for an unexpected respite from a grueling first week of basketball practice. The group looks around, engages in small talk, with one team member shouting out, “Wick, do you know what this is about?” I shrug my shoulders. It’s a first time experience for me as well as the rest of the team. Shortly thereafter, the new head coach enters his biology classroom where the boys have taken up temporary residence. Coach Belke strikes a commanding appearance. He’s about 6’2” with a barrel chest, large thick forearms, and looks every bit like the man who supposedly had a try-out with the Chicago Bears. Immediately the room falls silent, such is the presence he dictates. While Coach Belke has coached football and basketball before at Princeton High School, it’s been nearly a decade since he’s done either. He volunteered to take on the task of coaching basketball this year when our coach of the past three years unexpectedly left for a better teaching position. After years of dismal sports performances, this team is expected to do well. Our sophomore year our team won the first game a Princeton basketball team had won after 37 consecutive losses. The following year (our junior season) our team finished 13-6, 3rd place in the conference. Expectations are high.
Topics: planning, Annual Plan, strategy, Strategic Planning, Vision
In 2012: Planning or Strategy we discussed the distinction between planning and strategy. While many companies struggle to execute their plans, the reality is most companies fail not due to execution, rather due to poor decisions.
Topics: One Thing, Annual Plan, Four Decisions, strategy, Strategic Planning
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