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Get your Huddle Communication in Check
May 22, 2013 By Great Game Staff
“A well-executed Huddle creates focus, accountability, alignment (line-of-sight), and a sense of urgency to take action and drive improved results”Recently, we explained why you should hold weekly “Huddles” as opposed to traditional staff meetings and how to format those Huddles to ensure they are effective...
6 Key Components of Financial Forecasting
May 9, 2013 By Great Game Staff
You wouldn’t drive your car while only looking in the rear-view mirror…why run your business looking only at the past? However, this is the method many businesses have used for decades...
Make Staff Meetings More Effective: Stop Meeting, Start Huddling
May 1, 2013 By Great Game Staff
Even if you feel you have your staff meetings down to a science, you may still struggle with keeping your employees engaged, informed and focused on the company’s goals. One of the biggest challenges in business today isn’t planning or even strategy; it’s the ability to execute company goals...
13 Financial Terms to Teach Employees During Financial Literacy Month
April 24, 2013 By Great Game Staff
If your company practices any level of transparency, you know it’s often difficult to help your employees understand all of the financial jargon they will hear on a daily basis...
A Stake in the Outcome: How a Chocolatier Brought his Cocoa Farmers into the Game
April 17, 2013 By Great Game Staff
Every year, Shawn Askinosie makes pilgrimages to some of the hottest, most humid and poorest regions on the face of the Earth, specifically: San Jose Del Tambo, Ecuador; Davao, Philippines; Cortes, Honduras; and Tenende, Tanzania...
Mistakes are Opportunities by Bill Collier
April 16, 2013 By Bill Collier
Every company makes mistakes. That's one thing all businesses have in common. That said, each mistake is an opportunity - especially if the error affects a customer. Some companies blame anyone or anything but themselves...
Why the Heck Would Anyone Want to Buy a 20 Year Old Book?
April 11, 2013 By Steve Baker
“Why the heck would anyone want to buy a 20 year old book?” That was Jack Stack’s question to me. I didn’t know if he was going to punch me or throw up. Jack Stack is not a guy who likes to toot his own horn, and here I was asking him to re-issue a book he wrote two decades ago...
How Open-Book Management Can Psychologically Effect Employees
April 10, 2013 By Great Game Staff
A recent New York Times article featured a Q&A with David Rock, the director of NeuroLeadership Institute. In the article, Rock explains his analysis of employees’ motivations and behaviors with the acronym “SCARF” (status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness and fairness)...
5 Lessons to Learn from a Billionaire
April 3, 2013 By Steve Baker
Seth Godin recently wrote a post entitled ‘Studying entrepreneurship without doing it is like studying music without listening to it.’ In it, Godin points out that until you’re actually in the thick of things, you really have no idea of what it’s like to be an entrepreneur...
4 Ways to Increase the Power of Open-Book Management
March 27, 2013 By Great Game Staff
For years, we have battled with explaining to others how the concept of open-book management and The Great Game of Business are not one in the same. To sum it up quickly, The Great Game of Business is an operating system in which open-book management plays a critical role...
