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John Doerr was an electrical engineer who started at Andy Grove’s Intel, which he left to become one of the most successful venture capitalists in America. He has backed Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Google, Netscape, Twitter, Slack, and other successful tech businesses. Doerr took Andy Grove’s objectives and key results (OKRs)...
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) program, created by FranklinCovey, drives organizational results through behavior change. 4DX focuses on articulating your major, definite objective, the one it calls the Wildly Important Goal (WIG or The War) and then breaking it down into a handful of “WIG Battles” and quarterly execution...
Following the publication of Traction, Verne Harnish came up with “Rockefeller Habits 2.0” and titled it Scaling Up. This is a system directed at strengthening fast-growth companies, organized around four areas: people, strategy, execution, and cash. In Scaling Up, Harnish updated the One Page Strategic Plan and added a thinking...
Patrick Lencioni is a management consultant and alumnus of Bain & Company and Oracle who struck out on his own and has published a dozen business books since 1998. He runs the Table Group. Lencioni writes about team dynamics and how to make organizations perform better. Most of his books,...
Keith McFarland, former CEO of twice Inc. 500 winning Colletech Systems, credits a chance meeting with Jim Collins for inspiring his research that led to The Breakthrough Company. McFarland replicated Collins’s Good to Great process, conducted for the elite of the Fortune 500, and applied it to small, fast-growing companies....
Gino Wickman joined his family sales training business at age 25. He soon discovered that his father was more of an entrepreneur than a manager, more excited about ideas, strategy, and clients than managing a profitable business. Gino jumped in and helped to right the ship and grow and sell...
With so many brands out there vying for attention, the question of what makes a brand stand out becomes increasingly pertinent. How does a brand become more than just a name or a logo, evolving into a recognizable identity synonymous with unique values and quality? That is something that this...
Verne Harnish studied as a mechanical engineer, after which he decided on a business career and earned an MBA. While studying at Wichita State University, he founded the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs and then expanded the concept nationally and later globally when, in 1987, he founded the Young Entrepreneurs Organization...
What is Fractional Integrating? Fractional integrating is an approach to company management that involves hiring part-time executives or specialists to fulfill specific roles within an organization. It is seen as very cost efficient, gives access to a diverse skill set and gives access to scalability. Ideally, fractional integrating allows businesses...
Ever glance at someone’s success and think that it was just luck? It’s easy to imagine that some people are just born under a lucky star, always finding themselves in the right place at the right time. But what if I told you that there’s more to luck than mere...
In 1983, 13 employees of International Harvester purchased a part of the company that rebuilt truck engines, called Springfield ReManufacturing Corporation (SRC). They put in $100,000 in cash and assumed $8.9 million in loans; a share in SRC was worth 10 cents. Twenty-five years later, SRC group’s revenue had grown...
The E-Myth, written by Michael Gerber, was first published in 1986 as a non-fiction book and re-released in 1995 as a business fable, titled The E-Myth Revisited. According to Michael Gerber, the e-myth, or entrepreneur myth, is that most companies are started by heroic business visionaries. However, in reality most...
