Ready to Execute Your Strategy? 7 Behaviors For Success

Ready to Execute Your Strategy? 7 Behaviors For Success

As a strategic business coach, I often see businesses that have great strategies but struggle to execute them. The book, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, is a great resource for any business leader who wants to improve their ability to execute their strategies. We’ll focus our attention on Part II of the book: The Seven Essential Behaviors of Leaders so we can evaluate how well we, as leaders, are exhibiting these behaviors needed to execute our strategies effectively.

30 Years of Principles, 1 Tool to Help You Win

30 Years of Principles, 1 Tool to Help You Win

Jim Collins, author, researcher, speaker, and consultant compiled his life’s work into one strategic tool, THE MAP. Each component of this tool walks us through the inputs to reach the three desired outputs of Superior Results, Distinctive Impact, and Lasting Endurance. We can all agree that leading a company that is excelling financially, making an impact, and leaving a long-term legacy is the definition of winning.


Let’s go through THE MAP to find out how we can achieve these goal worthy results and win...

Strengthen Your Core…Without Breaking a Sweat

Strengthen Your Core…Without Breaking a Sweat

Do you have a clear and differentiating STRATEGY? Turn to your financials to find out.

If you have consistent and sustainable revenue growth with increasing gross margin dollars, the answer is more than likely yes.

Your Strategy is the blueprint for how you will achieve your goals and your ability to bring this Strategy to life comes down to your Core Values, Core Purpose, and Core Competencies.

A Three Question Exercise to Build Trust Instantly

A Three Question Exercise to Build Trust Instantly

How do we bring to life the 7 Leadership Commitments discussed in last month’s blog to form this hypothetical “elite team”? 

I’m a huge fan of the Personal Histories exercise to help us build Trust and Respect.

According to Patrick Lencioni, with this exercise, we can build trust on our teams in less than 2 hours. Yes, you read that right. It’s not too good to be true and I’ll tell you WHY and HOW.

7 Leadership Commitments for Elite Teams

7 Leadership Commitments for Elite Teams

Regardless of industry, size, geography, or title, we are all impacted by the quality of our leadership, which directly relates to our ability to scale. We are unique in how we lead and what our end goals are, but we can find common ground through our desire to become better leaders.

Since we can all connect through leadership, let’s look at leadership through the lens of a former Navy SEAL…