September 20, 2006
"You always want to be moving at the edge of your abilities without losing control."

Khari Villela,
chief software architect,
NCR Corp.
 
 
 

How to Guide: Three Ways To Growth

With all of the latest and greatest concepts, seminars, webcasts, and "How-To" books vying for your attention, you would think that growing your business was as complicated as building the space shuttle. The fact is, there are only three ways to expand business...

 
Talking Points: The Best of the Best Do Planning

Need talking points to convince your boss or board of directors to do a strategic plan? Here are some points to help you make your case:

High-performance organizations have fundamental differences that set them apart from other organizations. Anecdotally, these companies are better than their competitors at everything they do. They work more diligently and incessantly to improve faster than their competitors.

There are tons of studies out there that dig into the hows and whys of companies that are ahead of the pack. But instead of getting lost in the details and differences of these studies, take a look at the basics.

At the end of the day, high-performance organizations accomplish extraordinary results, and they do it with ordinary people. The key to achieving is to structure an organization so ordinary people can regularly accomplish outstanding things. Enter a strategic plan.

If you keep waiting for extraordinary people to come along and make things happen, you’re going to wait a long time. Instead, your goal should be to transform your organization in such a way that your people are capable of delivering high performance every minute and every hour of every day.

Look for additional talking points in up-coming StrategyChecks!



Quick Tips: Four Questions for Business Change

There are four component questions to ask about your organization:

  • How should your strategy transform?
  • How should your operating activities transform, whether or not you have a shift in strategy?
  • To accomplish a transformation, what shift in people and leadership is necessary?
  • And what shift in organization processes must you facilitate?

These are the four components of how to make money: strategy, operating activities, people, and processes. When you confront reality, you may have to make changes in one of the four, two of the four, three of the four, or all four.

A leader has to determine when not to change, when to change, and to what extent to change. Then you determine which of the four internal organizational components have to be changed, and in what sequence, to meet those goals.


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