Drucker’s Decision Making Tool

Our team is utilizing a new model for each decision we make this year, across divisions courtesy of Peter Drucker. Dr. Jacobsen has issued the challenge and team members have already started to implement. A decision has not been made until people know: The name of the person(s) accountable for carrying it out. The deadline (timeframe for completion). The names of people who will be affected by the decision and therefore have to know about, understand, and approve it–or at least not be strongly opposed to it–and The names of the people who have to be informed of the decision, […]

Scaling Up Excellence – Notes from Chapter 1

It’s a ground war, not just an air war. (Going slower to scale faster – and better – later.) The Problem of More = Executives can point to pockets in their organization where people are doing a great job of uncovering and meeting customer needs. There was always some excellence – there just wasn’t enough of it. How do you spread that excellence to more people and more places? We’ve identified 7 reliable signs that scaling is going well or badly… 1. Spread a mindset, not just a footprint. Distributing your banner and logo far and wide vs. having a […]

#19 Shipping and Wrapping

Reflecting on yesterday’s administrative retreat, my mind is full of good things. Shipping and wrapping is the first to come to mind. Shipping our ideas – Seth Godin has a booklet called “Ship It” designed to help launch your ideas. We all have ideas. Fear keeps us from taking action and implementing them. The goal is to lose the fear of failure and launch them. Learn from them. Wrapping our decisions – The Heath brothers new book “Decisive” was on our team’s summer reading list. The premise revolves around how truly bad we are, as human beings, at making the […]

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