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Business As Usual?

It's Time
To Change The
Costly

Business-As-Usual

Culture

That
Deprives
All Types Of
ORGANIZATIONS
From Achieving The Ultimate In
Success
From Both
Financial
And
Mission
Standpoints!

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GCC
Identifies
and
Solves
The Very Problems
That Prevent
Organizations
and
Institutions
From
Achieving
the
Highest Level
of
Excellence
and
Bottom-Line
Success!

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The Most Powerful Resource For Transforming Your Organization, Regardless Of Its
Size Or Mission,
Into A

Competitive Powerhouse
Resides Within Your Very Organization..

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GCC
provides
the
Solutions

for achieving and sustaining a

competitive advantage
and
heightened level of
excellence and bottom-line success

that:

  • provides value to customers and others who are served

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Examples
of
What GCC Can Do For
Organizations
and
Institutions
in
FIVE
COMMON,
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Restoring
CHARACTER
In
INDIVIDUALS
Based On
Honorable Values That Define
An
Individual
as
PRINCIPLED
Is
Exactly
What
Organizations
and
Institutions
and
Society At Large
Need Most!

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GCC's Unique, No-Nonsense, No-Spin Strategies And Solutions Provide A Unique Opportunity For The Restoration Of Character, Leadership, Integrity, Confidence, Excellence, and Bottom-Line Success
For Business, Government, and Organizations of All Types
While Presenting The First Real Solutions For
Improving The Culture In Society At Large!

GCC's
General Strategy
for
All Types of Organizations!

Applies True Leadership With Integrity!

 

 

"GCC's General Strategy"
applies
to all types of organizations
including
Business, Government, and all others.

However, in Government, because of the additional
serious problems that
"politics" and "elections"

introduce,

especially in the
Executive and Legislative Branches - -
problems which, generally, are in addition to
the typical ones found in non-government entities - -
GCC deals with those unique problems separately,
in

"GCC's Strategy For Government".

Once
"GCC's Strategy for Government"
is successfully
implemented, then
"GCC's General Strategy,"
covered below,
could then be applied to Government
in much the same way that it would be applied in other types of organizations
.


 

GCC's General Strategy - - unlike any other in the management advice industry - - provides a unique opportunity for business organizations, government institutions, and virtually any type of organization to secure a more successful, enduring future - - a future in which the organization or institution itself, its executives, its managers, and its employees, together with all other stakeholders, are able to benefit in a sustainable way.

This General Strategy gets to the very core of what every organization or institution, regardless of its type, size, or mission, should be doing to achieve and sustain a heightened level of EXCELLENCE and BOTTOM-LINE SUCCESS:

  • Where "EXCELLENCE" involves a restored culture of "Topside Leadership With Integrity" that values ethical behavior among its employees - - ethical behavior that permeates the entire organization or institution. It constitutes a win-win strategy in which all parties stand to benefit.

  • Where "BOTTOM-LINE SUCCESS" refers to both the FINANCIAL BOTTOM LINE and the MISSION BOTTOM LINE.

 

Under this General Strategy, the counterproductive business-as-usual culture and general lack of principled character in people that promote wasteful activity, irresponsibility, bad conduct and behavior, and corruption are replaced with a Principled Culture of INTEGRITY AND RESPONSIBILITY that comes from the top and that benefits all stakeholders.

GCC's General Strategy focuses on two major areas of an organization or institution - - two areas that many would believe are unimportant or even irrelevant. The two areas are:

      I. The Workplace Culture|

      II. The Work Activities

These two areas embody:
    • EVERYTHING that can go WRONG in an organization or institution

    • EVERYTHING that discourages operating with INTEGRITY, RESPONSIBILITY, and PARTICIPATION

    • EVERYTHING that prevents an organization or institution from achieving the highest possible level of Excellence and Bottom-Line Success.
 

I. The Workplace Culture

GCC's General Strategy creates a workplace culture that transforms an organization or institution into a better and more desirable choice from the viewpoint of those who count:

      • its customers or others it serves

      • its employees at all levels

      • its other stakeholders

Under GCC's General Strategy, the executives, managers, and employees at all levels (and their counterparts in not-for-profit and/or other types of organizations):

Are mobilized to operate in a new and genuine spirit of collaboration,
that stems from
the
recognition, acknowledgment,
and
understanding
of
one's own character
strengths and weaknesses
that
for the first time
,
enables
executives, managers,
and
employees
to come together

to restore integrity
and
achieve
,
for themselves
and
for the organization's
other stakeholders
,
a level of excellence
and
bottom-line success
that is sustainable!

 

 

The full impact that results from the climate created under GCC's General Strategy is finally felt by both the organization and its customers.

It is a climate in which the entire organization or institution comes to fully understand not only the importance, but also, the reality and true significance of:

    • the customers as the organization's most valuable asset and,

    • the employees as the organization's most powerful resource.

Under GCC's General Strategy, "EXCELLENCE" in the new way that CUSTOMERS and OTHERS SERVED are treated by the organization's employees at all levels, and in the new way that EMPLOYEES at all levels are for the first time engaged in meaningful, effective work activities serve two important purposes:

    • differentiates the organization from its competition in very positive ways - - especially in the eyes of customers, potential customers, and others served.

    • secures and sustains a heightened level of success for the organization, its employees at all levels, its customers and others served, and all of its other stakeholders.

So, under GCC's General Strategy, the workplace culture becomes one in which:

  • executives, managers, and employees at every level are, for the first time, mobilized to team up in an unprecedented way, to manage and work coherently, rather than at cross purposes, towards achieving excellence and the highest level of bottom-line success

  • all parties benefit - - executives, managers, employees, customers (and others served), and all other stakeholders.

 


The Business-As-Usual Culture
is a costly, counterproductive
workplace culture
that "governs" how most of today's
organizations and institutions operate.

It is also often a self-defeating culture
and
should be considered
as something that
MUST BE CHANGED,
if organizations and institutions
are to be relevant or are even to survive!


Those who are in the best position
to make such a change possible,
namely
the
organization or institution's
Executives, Managers,
and
Employees
at all levels
are the very ones,
together with
Customers
and
Other Stakeholders,
who, in the end,
stand
to gain the most!

 

II. The Work Activities

GCC's General Strategy transforms how employees, at every level, work. It is a transformation that employs four simple steps that everyone in the organization follows when carrying out the organization's daily activities in support of its mission. Those steps include:

    FIRST: Ensuring that everything an organization or institution does to carry out its mission is, in fact, worth doing in the first place (i.e., relevant to the task of carrying out the mission). GCC's General Strategy ensures that the culture is in place at all levels of the organization to make this happen

    SECOND: Discarding irrelevant things (i.e., those unnecessary to the task of carrying out the mission)

    Third: Ensuring that the relevant things GET DONE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME at every level in the organization

    FOURTH: Requiring that the relevant things add value for those being served (i.e., customers, clients, members, citizens, etc.).

    NOTE: Exceptions may apply when a policy, procedure or work process is required by law.

A Word About Sustainability

GCC's General Strategy ensures that organizations and institutions are left with a plan that works and is sustainable; a plan that secures a more successful, enduring future; a future in which the organization or institution itself, its employees, its customers and others served, and its other stakeholders are all able to benefit in a sustainable way.

 

"Effective Leadership and Management with Integrity"
is a
Critical Aspect
of
GCC's General Strategy
and a
GOAL
that the
Organization or Institution's
Leadership and/or Stakeholders
Should Be Serious About
Ensuring
and
Maintaining!

 

 

 

Conclusion

GCC's General Strategy is unlike any other in the leadership or management advice industry. It is a unique strategy in many ways:

  • It was designed to work equally well not only in all types of business organizations, but also in government, and in virtually any other type of organization or institution

  • It brings about real change - - change that transforms the costly bureaucratic, business-as-usual ways that organizations and institutions operate

  • It provides an organization or institution the opportunity to mobilize its most powerful resource -- its executives, managers, and employees at every level in the organization -- to come together to achieve and sustain a heightened level of excellence and bottom-line success from both the financial and mission standpoints, success in which all stakeholders benefit

  • It brings about a transformation in which the true value and importance of "the customer and others served" becomes significantly more apparent to the employees at all levels resulting in the success of the organization or institution itself together with all stakeholders including employees themselves

    As a result, the employees become more highly motivated and dedicated to embracing and supporting GCC's powerful effective customer-focused culture - - representing a real positive transformation unlike any in the past

  • It transforms the organization or institution into a better and more desirable choice from the viewpoint of its customers and others served

  • It assures that executives, managers, and employees are mobilized to achieve and sustain excellence and bottom-line success with integrity intact.

    GCC's
    Unique, No-Nonsense, No-Spin
    Bottom-Line
    Leadership Advice
    Provides a Unique Opportunity
    that enables
    Organizations and Institutions
    of all types
    to
    RESTORE INTEGRITY
    and
    achieve and sustain
    Excellence
    and
    Bottom-Line Success
    !

     


     

    Authentic Leadership, Responsible Management,
    Ethical Conduct,
    and Simplicity
    in combination with
    GCC's
    Unique No-Nonsense, No-Spin
    Advice and Execution Approach,
    are the hallmarks of GCC's Strategies and the very qualities that underpin and create
    the true organizational environment for
    Sustainable Success!

     

 

 

 

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Attacks,
And
Half-Truths
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