by Chuck Kocher | Feb 14, 2012 | People and Teams
What is the single greatest competitive edge you can give your business? Best-selling business author and speaker Patrick Lencioni maintains that it is not finance, strategy, or technology that gives a business the ultimate competitive edge. He claims that teamwork is...
by Chuck Kocher | Feb 7, 2012 | Business Growth, Coaching and Encouragement, People and Teams, Strategic Thinking, Strategy Creation, Strategy Development
Trying to run a business without a strategy—without a clear idea of who your customers are, without definite goals, and without a specific plan for achieving those goals—is a recipe for failure. But is honing your strategy the most important you can do to assure your...
by Chuck Kocher | Jan 31, 2012 | Leadership
You may have competitors that are bigger than you. Some of your competitors may have more resources than you do. Some may even have inside connections that you don’t have. All of those things may be beyond your control. But here’s something that you—and you...
by Chuck Kocher | Jan 26, 2012 | Execution and Productivity, People and Teams
As a leader, what’s more critical to the success of your business: people or process? While you could argue that people are always more important than anything else in your business, the fact of the matter is that you have to have good processes in place if you want...
by Chuck Kocher | Jan 17, 2012 | Strategic Thinking, Strategy
One of the toughest things for many business leaders to do is to think like a customer. Business leaders tend to think like . . . businesses. Most of us would probably deny this, but we act as if our customers’ goals and objectives are really ours. They’re not. Our...
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