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Stop Learning the Hard Way! How Your Bottom-Up Processors are Your Canaries in the Coal Mine
Is the big picture more important than the details? It’s a trick question. Both are required to do great and complicated things! Learn how to listen to your bottom-up processors who have arrived back at the big picture to give your company the best chance for success.
How to Create a Workforce that Dominates
When leadership ignores the details, they teach employees that connections don’t matter. Neglecting connections creates cultures that neglect customers. When you create connections to why work matters, put work in terms of how people think of their work, and include handoffs as part of the definition of their work, you create a workforce that dominates the competition.
Priorities, the Eisenhower Matrix, and Who Really Controls Your Life
Who’s in control of your life? Are you always pushing off the scheduled, important things you want to do due to impromptu, urgent fires? That may be life’s way of giving you repeat opportunities to choose differently. See how the Eisenhower Matrix can reveal where your actual priorities are and what you can do to take back control of your life.
Potential Isn’t Real and How to Believe People When They Show You Who They Are
Do you believe what people say or what they do? Most people believe in results. Why, then, do so many companies believe big talkers rather than those that get work done? See how replacing false belief with genuine curiosity unlocks your company’s true potential.
The False Promise of RTO and How to Actually Increase Engagement
Is Return to Office the best thing since the office, or are you using RTO as a cheap, physical substitute for knowledge of what’s really going on with your business? Read what happens when you start measuring the right things.
Perfect Systems Adapt
Perfect systems can adapt to any change. But how do you do this in your business? Read how to start building a more perfect system in your business and how The Healthy Company Framework can help your business achieve more.
People Are Who They’re Allowed to Be, Personal Edition
Fourth in the “People Are Who They’re Allowed to Be” series, you as an individual are directly impacted by what you tolerate. If you’re stuck, try this simple 3-question trick to get you unstuck.
People Are Who They’re Allowed to Be, Manager Edition
Third in the “People Are Who They’re Allowed to Be” series, superstars and underperformers may be killing your team. See how Units perform better than KPIs at solving this common business problem.
People Are Who They’re Allowed to Be, Company Edition
Second in the “People Are Who They’re Allowed to Be” series, leadership latency is one way companies are impacted. See how management standards can help remove the latency from your organization.
People Are Who They’re Allowed to Be, An Introduction
People are who they’re allowed to be. As simple as this statement is, it has profound impacts on companies, managers, and to you personally. This introduction is the first in a series of articles where you will discover how you have control over this for your business, as a manager, and to you personally.
How Purposes Allow Predictable Patterns to Change and Adapt
Predictability is powerful, but what are you applying it to? Read how Purposes, a key component of The Healthy Company Framework, help your business make sure it’s focusing on doing the right things, not just doing things right.
Transform Your Business by Connecting Others
Collective happiness among strangers requires everyone to look out for one another. But how do you do that with the strangers you’ve employed at your company? See how The Healthy Company Framework can transform your business.
Perspective, the Imperative of Communication, and How to Achieve Connectivity
80 in the driver’s seat feels very different than 80 in the passenger seat. Your business is the same! In a world where the divide seems to keep widening, see how you can unify your business and get everyone headed in the same direction.
The Manager Who Cried Wolf and the Power of Predictability
Change is all but guaranteed. Too much self-inflicted change creates chaos. The power of predictability helps your company create experts, and a company of experts sets your business apart. Learn how to stop crying wolf and take control of the change at your company.
How to Fix Middle Management
Whether your managers have hit “The Peter Principle” or they just don’t want to lead, this article will teach you what to look out for so you make informed choices about your leaders and give you the tools to set up any leader for success.
Burnout Hits Efficiency, Job Performance, Customer Service, and Innovation, But Companies Can Fix It
Burnout affects 55% of the American workforce and hurts efficiency, job performance, customer service, and innovation. Businesses can put out the flames of burnout by following a few key steps, taken from The Healthy Company Framework.
The Best Way to Grow Your Business
Grow your business like you grow your garden and tend to the things that matter. See how The Healthy Company Framework teaches you how to best cultivate a blooming business.
How Owning Your Failures Heals Your Business
Great leaders look out the window to praise others when things go well and look in the mirror to own mistakes. Ask these questions to create a culture that owns its contributions to inevitable failures and watch your business grow and flourish like never before.
The Lasting Impact of Toxic Leadership and How to Rebuild Trust
The lasting impact of bad leadership is a real issue most companies ignore. The toxic leaders you let stick around are the fuel that’s pouring into the fires of your business. You must do the work to put out the fire, rebuild, and regain trust. The Healthy Company Framework and Company Connections helps you rebuild.
Affirmation The Healthy Company Framework is the Greatest New Business Methodology
Is The Healthy Company Framework the greatest new business methodology? True or not, there is no shortage of articles that call out the same thing: companies contribute to the burnout of their employees. The Healthy Company Framework is your solution.