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Are you suffering from Mad How Disease trying to figure out how to connect to the right people? Or do something you haven’t done before? There is a solution. Look for your ‘Who”s instead!
Interpreting the Ten Rockefeller Habits for Scaling Up – Habit 2: Everyone is aligned with the #1 thing that needs to be accomplished this quarter to move the company forward.
Tip 2.4 Quarterly Theme/Critical Number posted throughout the company and employees are aware of the progress each week. The Quarterly Theme is a fun motif you can use in your internal marketing to rally everyone around achieving your Critical Number. Especially for...
Interpreting the Ten Rockefeller Habits for Scaling Up – Habit 2: Everyone is aligned with the #1 thing that needs to be accomplished this quarter to move the company forward.
Tip 2.3: A Quarterly Theme and Celebration/Reward are announced to all employees that bring the Critical Number to life. Think of the scaling up process as a continuum. Companies can not embrace the entire process out of the gate. Theme creation usually is more likely...
Interpreting the Ten Rockefeller Habits for Scaling Up – Habit 2: Everyone is aligned with the #1 thing that needs to be accomplished this quarter to move the company forward.
Tip: 2..2 Three to Five Priorities (Rocks) that support the Critical Number are identified and ranked for the quarter. The magic of the Scaling Up process is getting everyone in the company to accomplish one additional thing that is aligned with the company’s focus...
Interpreting the Ten Rockefeller Habits for Scaling Up – Habit 2: Everyone is aligned with the #1 thing that needs to be accomplished this quarter to move the company forward.
Tip 2.1 The Critical Number is identified to move the company ahead this quarter. Rockefeller Habit #2 starts with identifying this Critical Number. While all your metrics are important, the Critical Number designation is specific to one metric each year. A key step...
Interpreting the Ten Rockefeller Habits for Scaling Up – Habit 1: The Executive Team is Healthy and Aligned
Tip 1.4 The team is engaged in constructive debates and all members feel comfortable participating. Are your meetings boring? How would you like to have these outcomes instead? Have lively, interesting meetings Extract and exploit the ideas of all team members Solve...
Interpreting the Ten Rockefeller Habits for Scaling Up – Habit 1: The Executive Team is Healthy and Aligned
Tip 1.3 The team participates in ongoing education (monthly is recommended) If you thought that learning stopped when you graduated from high school or college, think again. Continuous learning is a critical part of personal and business life in today’s rapidly...
Interpreting the Ten Rockefeller Habits for Scaling Up – Habit 1: The Executive Team is Healthy and Aligned
Tip 1.2 The team meets frequently (weekly is best) for strategic thinking Instead of thinking about strategic planning it’s helpful to think about breaking planning sessions down into two parts: strategic thinking and execution planning. The 7 Strata framework...
Interpreting the Ten Rockefeller Habits for Scaling Up – Habit 1: The Executive Team is Healthy and Aligned
Tip 1.1 Team members understand each others differences, priorities and styles. The Boys in The Boat is the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in...
What Do Women Leaders Know that Their Counterparts (Men) Don’t?
Warning: Men won’t like this article, Stop here. Women leaders can balance it all with the proper infrastructure and network to be successful. Women learn quickly how to be connectors, communicators and multi-taskers. It must be in the DNA. Just think how many chores...
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Are you suffering from Mad How Disease trying to figure out how to connect to the right people? Or do something you haven’t done before? There is a solution. Look for your Who”s instead!
Stanley Milgram was a social scientist and in the 1960ʼs he put together a series of experiments to find out how connected, or disconnected people really were.
The small-world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. The research was groundbreaking in that it suggested that human society is a small-world-type network characterized by short path-lengths. The experiments are often associated with the phrase “six degrees of separation“, although Milgram did not use this term himself.
The experiment consisted of sending a package from Omaha, Nebraska, in the center of the U.S. to recipients in Boston, Massachusetts, in the NE.
The package came with a set of instructions. The goal was to get the package hand delivered from Nebraska, to Massachusetts. So whoever received it had to think about who they knew that was either going to Boston, or might know someone who knew someone who was going to Boston. They couldn’t ship it. AND, they could only pass it to someone they knew on a first name basis.
What Milgram discovered through the experiment, was that it took about six people handing off the package before it was hand delivered to Boston. Hence the term, six degrees of separation.
How is that relevant to you? Well, first off all, it tells you that your “Who”s are closer than you might have thought. Especially when you realize that we don’t have the same limitations on our lives as Milgram put on his experiment. Do we have to know someone on a first name basis to ask for help? No. We can ask anyone.
Does our package have to be hand delivered? In other words do we have to be standing in front of someone to ask them for help? Can we use Google, email, LinkedIn etc. to find someone?
Of course not. With the power of technology, we can talk to people around the world, for next to nothing. Is it possible that our “Who”s are no more than 2-3 degrees away.
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