by John Boudreau | Dec 21, 2020 | execution, strategy
Over the past 25 days, we’ve been discussing strategy. In our last post, we shared reviewing your strategy on a regular basis (we suggest monthly) is critical for successful execution. Mankins and Steele also talked about the strategy – execution gap and ways...
by John Boudreau | Dec 18, 2020 | execution, monthly meetings, monthly team meetings, strategy
Over the past 24 days, we’ve been discussing strategy. In our last post, we shared how you can use a strategic principle to communicate your strategy. It turns out the regular communication of your strategy is a key component to the strategy actually getting...
by John Boudreau | Mar 2, 2018 | execution, strategy
I think everyone would agree that having the right strategy is important if you want to maximize your chances for success. Yet, I find many small businesses not maximizing their chances of success – at times even unintentionally weakening their chances for...
by John Boudreau | Apr 5, 2016 | Accountability, execution, KPIs, strategy
“Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.” Naveen Jain I love this quote from entrepreneur Naveen Jain....
by John Boudreau | Mar 16, 2016 | company goals, company vision, execution
“Ideas are easy, execution is everything” – Chris Sacca What a great quote! That is so true isn’t it? It’s fairly easy to come up with an idea, all you have to do is to think one up. With SpaceX, Elon Musk had an idea to commercialize space travel. It turns out...
by John Boudreau | Jan 5, 2011 | Business, collaboration, execution, hiring, processes
At Astonish we have a yearly company meeting. Our meeting is today and I thought I would write about one of the major points I’m going to share with our company. It’s called the “right things” model. I first heard about this concept for Vern...
