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Share Your Company’s Values

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 27, 2023

One of my customers was facing a difficult decision.

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Topics: Core Values, Core Purpose, Vision, Core Behaviors, Vision & Purpose, Mission, Vision, Values

American Icon – Path for Scale Ups & Strategic Discipline

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 14, 2019

A customer of mine, who I’ve worked with on and off for the past ten years, recently contacted me to start our coaching relationship again.

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Topics: Culture of Discipline, metrics, Business Vision, Execution, Vision, Alan Mulally, American Icon

Leader or Manager

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 8, 2016

As an E-Myth Senior Business Coach for ten years I used the E-Myth resources and tools to help my small business customers apply the systems concept to build their business.

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Topics: leadership, manager, Business Vision, E-Myth Revisited, Vision, Performance Management

Alignment – How Will 2012 Play Out for You?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Dec 29, 2011

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.

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Topics: planning, Annual Plan, strategy, Strategic Planning, Vision

Send A Man to the Moon - Your BHAG

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sun, Oct 17, 2010

My wife, youngest son and I journeyed to Kennedy Space Complex on Friday ahead of the Fortune Fall Growth Summit.  Witnessing firsthand the size of the rockets and the place where so many historic space launches took place was inspiring.  It was also fascinating to learn all the products and services that developed directly from the space program.  [Did you know that grooved highways came from NASA’s determined efforts to learn how to slow the Space Shuttle?]

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Topics: Focus, BHAG, Vision

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