Unlock the power of rhythm in your business! 🥁 Discover how a regular meeting cadence can drive progress toward your vision and keep your team coordinated and accountable.
Rhythm to Go the Distance
Adapt and Grow Phase Keeps Strategy Relevant
To survive and thrive, your business needs effective feedback. This allows all complex systems to adapt, survive, and thrive across time. If you want to refresh and accelerate your business success, learn how to apply the Adapt and Grow phase of StrategyOS.
Create Powerful Business Measures
Ready to supercharge your growth? The secret is finding powerful measures for your business. The right scorecard creates a bridge between strategy and execution, mapping out the path to success. Read on to discover why and how to create the right measures to align everyone's efforts with your business vision.
Get People in the Right Seats with Working Genius
Patrick Lencioni’s book “The 6 Types of Working Genius” offers a easy-to-use use framework to discover people's natural strengths and work preferences. In this context, “work” encompasses all types of personal and professional tasks, from job-related duties to everyday chores and volunteering. It helps to answer: why some people love their work and others dread …
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Build in Leadership and Management
Does your business have functions for both top-level leadership and management? Should it? Learn how to organize to get both functions working together for better results.
Lead and Manage
There has been a lot of debate, about the value of leadership versus management. In researching this article, I found many comparisons that disparage managers (fixed mindset, authoritative, detached) in order to reinforce qualities of good leadership (open mindset, empowering, inspirational.) These arguments have been outdated for a long time. I prefer the perspective from …
Identify and Fix Growth Mindset Failures to Win
Do you think you work from a growth mindset? All the time? Probably not! Everyone has thoughts that sabotage productive mindsets. Learn to identify them and how to shift to a growth mindset to accomplish whatever you want.
Recurring Refresh Quarterly Meeting
About 90 days is as long as people can stay focused without getting off track. It’s just how we're wired. Learn how to run a recurring refresh at least quarterly to stay on track toward your strategy goals.
Transform Phase Delivers Success
The Transform phase of StrategyOS delivers your Vision. Many businesses struggle to implement after putting together a bold strategic plan because they lack the practices to turn planning into reality. As Prussian field marshal von Moltke once said, "No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” In this case, the enemy presents as risks, uncertainty, …
Be Great at People (deepened)
Last week I attended a week long Vistage Academy. It was one of the best trainings I've been through in my entire career. In this week's news letter, I'd like to reflect and share with you some of the learnings that have wide application for any business leader. These practices expand on the Be Great …