October, 2011

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The Fundamentals of Becoming Excellent

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From an article in Fortune Magazine's "Secrets of Greatness" series: " What it takes to be great ". The premise? Your lack of a natural gift is irrelevant - talent has little or nothing to do with greatness. You will achieve greatness only through an enormous amount of hard work over many years. Understand that talent doesn't mean intelligence, motivation or personality traits.

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Could You Really Change - If You HAD To

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Could you change your behavior - when change really mattered? When it mattered most? Yes, you say? Try again. Yes? You're probably deluding yourself. That's what the experts say. They say that you wouldn't change. Here are the odds that the experts are laying down, their scientifically studied odds: 9:1. That's nine to one against you. How do you like those odds?

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The Usefulness of SWOT Analysis Before Strategic Planning

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Leveraging strengths. Minimizing weaknesses. Discovering new opportunities. Managing or eliminating threats. That's what SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) is all about. SWOT analysis is a powerful technique for understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and for looking at the opportunities and threats you face. The purpose of looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in Discipline VI.

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Personal Accountability Is The Number 1 Office Pet Peeve

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LinkedIn recently released the survey findings among 17,000 professionals worldwide about the top office pet peeves. "People not taking ownership for their actions" (OK, we'll label this "personal accountability") has the distinction of hitting the number one spot in LinkedIn’s global survey of most irritating office pet peeves. 2. Were the negative/complainers. 3.

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Whitepaper: Top Five Secrets of High-Performance Businesses

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The visionary small business expert Anita Campbell over at Small Business Trends , reveals some of the research we conducted here at Six Disciplines. Her post Top Five Secrets of Small Business Success focuses in particular about the reliance on trusted outside advisors. In addition, Anita mentions: "Six Disciplines has a white paper outlining the research along with tips on how to use it to run your business better.".

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Engaging Your Workforce For Strategy Execution

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At Six Disciplines, our research has shown that the number #1 difference between the highest- and lowest-performing organizations is strength of leadership , based on the average of several factors. One of those factors was the ability to motivate or engage the people in the company in pursuing its goals. For this isolated factor, the ability to engage the workforce, top-performing companies rated 281% higher!

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The Usefulness of SWOT Analysis Before Strategic Planning

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Leveraging strengths. Minimizing weaknesses. Discovering new opportunities. Managing or eliminating threats. That's what SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) is all about. SWOT analysis is a powerful technique for understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and for looking at the opportunities and threats you face. The purpose of looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in Discipline VI.

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