The article introduces Themes as a fundamental practices for success. Organize around Themes to ensure work aligns with delivering the vision. Themes offer a 2-5 year picture of how the business will look. They provide a powerful framework for planning and executing, shaping future outcomes, and differentiating the business.
The best Business Models can be communicated in a few words, documented in a couple pages, and managed with a few meetings. Your Business Model should fit on one or two pages. It should be shared, known and worked on by everyone in your business. Create a Cheat Sheet (n: a written or graphic aid …
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The left funnel of the Business Model highlights people elements that are needed to successfully deliver a business vision. There are 5 key practices: 1. Joint Ownership for coordination & monitoring 2. Individual Ownership by all for action 3. Right People 4. Right Seats with the right responsibilities 5. ACT to develop people who grow …
Today, we look at the Keep Score practice on the strategy row of fundamental practices for success. Leaders can reach their vision by adopting these 8 practices. StrategyOS works with these fundamentals by creating a process to execute them as part of your daily work. Now, here's today's newsletter covering setting up scorecards to ensure …
Great strategy execution starts at the top with an aligned, coordinated, and supportive leadership team. It is built on a great weekly Leadership Team Meeting. Many teams never realize the full value these meetings can deliver. Let's explore how to do it right. Start with meeting objectives. This meeting is the one time reserved each …
This week I held my first fully remote Strategy Choices Workshop with the leadership team from Formula Roofing. Here's some good and needs improvement things I learned through the process. Let's start with social validation: "This high focus forum has been a very effective way to discuss high level issues with the whole management team" …
Many leaders fail to recognize when issues hold them back. Others decide to work around them or fail to fix root causes. Issues continue to nag at their success and make work less enjoyable. Let's explore how a well run, recurring problem solving approach can 10x any team's success. In my experience, the most successful …
The military teaches that leadership is about caring for those in your charge. Yes, that's me on the far left as a new army Lieutenant with my first platoon on a field exercise in Korea. Here are 8 lessons I learned to better care for others on your team: 1. Empathy: Really listen to those …
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If you're an entrepreneur, you need to do three things well to realize your vision: 1. Work in the business 2. Work on the business 3. Work on improving how you work on the business These three areas compound success. Lets dive deeper...
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