One Metric Every Business Owner Should Track Most business owners monitor at least a few metrics regularly. Their metrics might include financial, sales, operational, employee, or economic metrics – but very few business owners track what we believe is the most critical metric. From our experience in helping hundreds of business leaders build successful and…Read Full Article
Oklahoma State Government Meets Strategic Execution It is very encouraging to see our state government starting to recognize the importance of strategy and execution in improving their performance. I recently spent a day with Governor Stitt and his Cabinet helping them install our Strategic Execution program as part of their management processes. Of course, many…Read Full Article
Strategic Execution Took My Company to the Next Level I know it sounds like a cliché, but Strategic Execution really did help me take my company to the next level. My company sells and services sophisticated measurement equipment. About three years ago, my company kind of hit a wall in terms of growth and profitability. We…Read Full Article
Great Execution or Great Strategy? Are you kidding me? Detailed three, four and five-year strategies and most of us don’t even know what will happen in the next six months. Back in the 80’s and 90’s, many of us became enamored with long-term, and I mean long, strategies. Unfortunately, we were lost in the…Read Full Article
What is Situational Leadership? The Situational Leadership Model was developed about 40 years ago by Paul Hersey, professor and author of the book The Situational Leader, and Ken Blanchard, leadership trainer and author of The One Minute Manager, while working on the first edition of Management of Organizational Behavior. I think they nailed the…Read Full Article