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Do you know your organization’s “Execution Quotient”?
“Execution Quotient” or “xQ” for short – measures the gap between an organization’s goals and how well it achieves them. It’s like measuring the organization’s IQ for achieving results. Why do so many organizations find it difficult to execute their strategies and achieve results? Harris Polling surveyed 2.5 million workers to ask about this and they found the following shocking results...
Hire People with Organizational Grit!
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people” - so said the famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. For organizations seeking progress and change there seem to be too many reasonable people about!
THE PERMISSION MODEL
This article was first published in Training Journal as part of the series by Carol Wilson identifying the tools and models frequently used during coaching projects, of which Learning & Development Directors and Corporate Coaches will find it useful to be aware. It is reproduced by kind permission.
Business Success -- When it's okay to quit
When is it okay to quit and when should you muscle through it? How do you know if this is the time you should throw in the towel or is this just more of your demons popping up to torture you? Here's a little system you can follow to help you know the difference.

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Who Has True Grit?
In the feature film, True Grit, Marshall Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) warns "Lucky" Ned Peffer (Robert Duvall) and three companions of their arrest. Cogburn on horseback faces the four horseman across a clearing. Cogburn tells Peffer that he intends to kill him within seconds or see him hang. Peffer responds, "That's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man." After a flurry of gunfire only Cogburn is alive. The moral? Never underestimate people with disabilities.
Accepting Responsibility and Making Ethical Decisions
In the feature film, True Grit, Mattie Ross searches for Tom Chaney. Chaney is wanted in Texas for killing a senator, but she is after him for stealing her father's money and killing him. She meets up with Chaney. She pulls out an ancient horse pistol, but he ignores the weapon thinking she won't use it. She fires and wounds him. Lying on the ground he complains, "Why does everything happen to me?" Does this behavior sound familiar?

It Takes G.R.I.T. to Win More Sales
Remember the movie, True Grit? John Wayne played an over the hill U.S. Marshal who in spite of some character flaws displayed “grit.” Many professional sales people sometimes feel over the hill especially during difficult economic times. What would happen if you had some of that grit of U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn?
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