Business Operating System #8: 4DX
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 steps. The process includes keeping […]
Business Operating System #3: The Rockefeller Habits
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 (now: EO). Working and consulting […]
Business Operating Systems #2: The Great Game of Business
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 from $16 million to more […]