Principles of Execution

What Everybody Ought to Know About Building a High Power Team?

“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”  By Harry Emerson Fosdick

His Background

• Both his parents were computer science professors
• Attended Okemos Montessori School (1975-79) and graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991
• Was attracted to computers at age 6

Set Goals, Get Results

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” By Zig Ziglar

Her Challenges:

• Her mother was an unmarried teenager.
• Lived with her grandmother during her first six years. Her grandmother was so poor that at times her dresses would be made out of potato sacks.

How To Solve Problems Like Auntie Anne’s Pretzels And Build A World Class Franchise?

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” By Theodore Rubin

Her Challenges:

• She was the baker and bread maker in for her seven siblings and parents.
• Only had a ninth grade education.

Coach Phil Jackson's Secret To Winning 11 NBA Titles

"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

by George Shinn

His Challenges:

• His parents were Assemblies of God ministers. Ultimately, he assumed he would follow in their footsteps.
• He and his siblings grew up without movies, dancing, or television. Sports were their only way to feel like normal kids.

GOT LUCK?

How Nelson Mandela Change A Nation And What We Can Learn From Him About Change Management?

“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.” – by Robert F. Kennedy

Insights From Steve Jobs On Visionary Leadership

 “The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist”. Eric Hoffer

What did he have to overcome growing up?

• He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs who lived in Mountain View California. 

7 Things We Can Learn From Bill Gates About Innovation

  “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning,” Bill Gates

Jack Welch Style Of Leadership

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

Resources for Continuous Improvement

 “Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves,” by Walter Anderson.

 
Frank Lloyd Wright:

• Was commissioned to design and build the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo Japan.

Effective Communication Skills

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein, physicist.

Accomplishments:

• He delivered two or three speeches a day for General Electric Theater as a tour guide for its 139 plants.

Who’s on your team?

“When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. “ Yogi Berra 

• He was selected in the first round of the 1967 NBA draft and won two NBA titles throughout his 13 year career.

Are You Getting The Results You Want?

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”  Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

Accomplishments:

• He created one of the most prestigious and innovative auto companies the world has ever known.

Are You A Systematic Problem Solver?

“We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.” Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

• He never attended college because of his mother’s illness and an accident in which he lost a number of teeth while playing hockey in high school.

The Competitive Advantages of Risk Management

“I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk”. Oprah Winfrey

• He understood the importance of managing risk and being prepared to make life or death decisions.

10 Things Every Stakeholder Wish You Knew

 “For [a product] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can.” Paul Graham, Made in USA

•  He was commissioned in the US Army as a second lieutenant in 1958 and is a veteran of the Vietnam War from 1962 – 63 and 1968 – 69.