Jones recognized for outstanding leadership in the pursuit of performance excellence KINGSPORT, Tenn., March 2020 — David M. Jones, vice president of McClaskey Excellence Institute, has received the 2020 Ned… Read more »
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Optimize the Financial Impact of a New Store Opening
I recently had a very interesting conversation with a McClaskey Excellence Institute “Achieving World-Class Results” class attendee. This conversation related to how to best use the “extraordinary thinking” taught in… Read more »
How to Select Your Initial Projects
All McClaskey Excellence Institute classes are set up to inspire and enable all participants to successfully take the knowledge learned in the classroom and convert that knowledge into actions on… Read more »
Designing Processes to Sustain the Gain
Shannon, a consulting client of McClaskey Excellence Institute, who heads a large and rapidly growing brand, asked a very insightful question during a recent consulting session. We had been talking… Read more »
Getting Good Out Of the Way of Becoming Great
In a recent McClaskey Excellence Institute (BEI) “Achieving World-Class Results” class, one of the class participants, I will call him Sam (not his real name), described what he got out… Read more »
Sustaining the Change
How to get people and organizations to sustain a positive change is probably one of the most important, yet vexing hurdles in all of leadership. As such, sustaining a change… Read more »
What We Focus on Is What is Important
One of the keys to an operationally excellent organization that we teach at McClaskey Excellence Institute is that everything you do should be the best known way to accomplish your… Read more »
Habits: How to Sustain Them
Want to stay better? Now that you know what habits are (see my blog on Habits: A Key to Sustainable Change) and how to change them (see my blog on… Read more »
Habits: How to Change Them
In my previous blog (Habits: A Key to Sustainable Change), I discussed two key concepts related to habits from the book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We… Read more »
Habits: A Key to Sustainable Change
As we seek sustainable change, both at home and in the workplace, habits play a key role in making change permanent. Learning the principles behind habits and how habits can… Read more »