steady consistent planning and efforts

TearsInRain

IE boogeyman
What’s Your 20 Mile March? | The Art of Manliness

The group analyzed seven companies that performed not just better than their industry, but ten times better. They discovered a very interesting key finding. The qualities that business gurus frequently tout as being the main difference-makers — things like innovation, creativity, and the ability to quickly pivot in a fast-changing world – were indeed somewhat important, but it was actually discipline, fanatic discipline, that was one of the true master keys of the companies’ success.

Instead of constantly changing course, making really aggressive moves, and taking big risks, “10Xers” (as Collins and Hansen dubbed these greatly successful companies) came up with a plan, and carefully, methodically, and consistently stuck with that plan; they moved ever towards their long-term goals instead of getting side-tracked by short-term temptations, fears, and changing circumstances. They didn’t panic during stormy periods, nor did they expand too aggressively during good times.
 

DS

Fenderbender
Fanatic discipline?
It may achieve results,but at what cost?
Obviously,production is a major element that affects the reality
of a 9.5 planned day.
If you want to piss off customers,over dispatching drivers with
a mandatory return to building time of 19:00 hrs,gives them
no leeway to actually make service .
Fanatic discipline is a stupid idea.
The results may seem positive but in the end customers will clue in.
 

Jones

fILE A GRIEVE!
Staff member
Fanatic discipline?
It may achieve results,but at what cost?
Obviously,production is a major element that affects the reality
of a 9.5 planned day.
If you want to piss off customers,over dispatching drivers with
a mandatory return to building time of 19:00 hrs,gives them
no leeway to actually make service .
Fanatic discipline is a stupid idea.
The results may seem positive but in the end customers will clue in.
I think you're misunderstanding the authors use of the term "discipline".
 

Catatonic

Nine Lives
These elements apply to the UPS I have known over the years and today as well.
My first thought is that this is a common type of book and these guys will be on the circuit for a couple of years (maybe more) and companies will pay them lots of money to come and speak and so on and so on.
I have 7 or more books like this in my library.

Extracted from the article:
Seven elements that create a good 20 Mile March:

  1. Clear performance markers
  2. Self-imposed constraints
  3. Appropriate to the enterprise [or individual]
  4. Largely within your control
  5. A proper timeframe — long enough to manage, yet short enough to have teeth
  6. Designed and self-imposed by the enterprise [or individual]
  7. Achieved with high consistency
 

TxRoadDawg

Well-Known Member
These elements apply to the UPS I have known over the years and today as well.
My first thought is that this is a common type of book and these guys will be on the circuit for a couple of years (maybe more) and companies will pay them lots of money to come and speak and so on and so on.
I have 7 or more books like this in my library.

Extracted from the article:
Seven elements that create a good 20 Mile March:

  1. Clear performance markers
  2. Self-imposed constraints
  3. Appropriate to the enterprise [or individual]
  4. Largely within your control
  5. A proper timeframe — long enough to manage, yet short enough to have teeth
  6. Designed and self-imposed by the enterprise [or individual]
  7. Achieved with high consistency
Does number 7 refer to how often pkg forecasts change only to still end up 500+ stops off high or low for the day :)
 
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