In advance of the Fortune Fall Growth Summit, Gazelles coaches gather to sharpen our plowshares [so to speak] and learn new best practices and ideas from the thought leaders. Today included a new tool from Verne Harnish to help identify the 4-9 critical processes that drive a success as well as Verne’s new concept on Strategy. He specifically provided a best practice example from one of our Gazelles clients, Build Direct, that’s applying the Seven Strata of Strategy with great success. More on these in future blogs and newsletters.
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The Drama Triangle or Empowerment Dynamic - Orlando Growth Summit
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Tue, Oct 19, 2010
Topics: employee engagement, Growth Summit, stress
Employee Engagement is a critical factor in getting maximum performance. I’ve pointed to this before and the work Gallup has down developing their Q12 [12 questions from the book First Break All the Rules that gauge engagement in the workforce] and how Best Buy uses these questions for their Core Score. You can read more on how just a 2% increase in employee engagement at Best Buy resulted in an additional $70 million in profitability here.
Topics: employee performance, productivity, stress, Key Metrics
How much time during your business day are you truly concentrating on your work? During the day, the average person is interrupted once every 11 minutes. It’s been estimated that it takes the human mind approximately 25 minutes to get up to speed on anything.
Topics: stress
Having just returned from two weeks of vacation and having read the book Stress for Success by Jim Loehr [he co-authored The Power of Full Engagement with Tony Schwartz, a book I highly recommend], I can tell you I learned first hand the value of having too much relaxation as opposed to too much stress.
Topics: stress






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