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The five traits of high-performing teams
Read more: The five traits of high-performing teamsHumans are adaptable. We’ve survived all manner of calamity to get where we are today. So it should be no surprise then that we’ve found ways to make work “work” in a post-pandemic age. That’s what I took from recent research into the common characteristics of high-performing teams in the workplace. An article on the research…
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Getting Pushed is How we Learn
Read more: Getting Pushed is How we LearnAny business can grow from the inside out. I start with that fundamental belief. The journey to that goal is seldom easy or obvious. That was certainly the case when I first started working with RHB, a higher education consultant based in Indianapolis, Ind. There were early doubts that it was a good fit. I…
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How To Recruit from Jay Abraham
Read more: How To Recruit from Jay AbrahamThe Great Resignation has not made hiring any easier, but it has made it far more important. Almost every business I work with is spending more time, energy and money on hiring than they were last year at this time. One was paying $22 per hour for summer workers in 2019 and struggled to fill…
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No win without a Winning culture
Read more: No win without a Winning cultureOn the road from a few bucks to a few billion, every company creates the same problems for itself. One of those must be solved in order to achieve lasting success: Preventing growth from destroying culture. You see, every successful startup has a special culture – whatever it is – that propels it to those…
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Start with WHY
Read more: Start with WHYWhen we started FiveFour in early 2018, the vision of the founders was to teach everyone what had made our individual businesses successful: a remarkable customer experience. But what we discovered is that, with our customers, most needed a step before that. They needed to start with WHY. I was reminded of this while listening…
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“We have three cultures”
Read more: “We have three cultures”I was talking to the CEO of a bank with more than a dozen branches when he said, “We don’t have a culture at our bank. We have three cultures and which one you encounter depends on which branch you’re at.” What’s more, the CEO said, “You can tell when you’re in a branch that…
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Aligning the two kinds of Purpose
Read more: Aligning the two kinds of PurposeThere are two kinds of purpose and they are the most powerful when they’re aligned.
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“Early on, my culture was rock solid.”
Read more: “Early on, my culture was rock solid.”That was what this former CEO said when I shared my 4D Transformation Method with him recently. “Up until we had about 35 people,” he said, “everyone was on the same page. I never had to let anyone go because the few times we didn’t hire the right person, the culture quickly pushed them out…
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Does this vision statement mean anything to anyone else?
Read more: Does this vision statement mean anything to anyone else?That was the question asked by the leadership team of one of my clients this week as we were discussing their vision. They just had the best year in the company’s 30-year history, but they’re hungry for more. Why? Because they have a big vision that hasn’t yet been fully realized. But they’re not sure…
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Should we slow down?
Read more: Should we slow down?That was the question posed by the leadership of a highly successful business that I recently started consulting with. They had recently come through a period of rapid growth. And that growth exposed some missing systems. A few client engagements had gone off the rails. Salespeople were chasing the wrong deals. And the leadership team was…
