ResultMaps Newsletter: October 2024
Happy Fall, ResultMaps Community!
As Halloween approaches, we're excited to share our latest updates. We're approaching the back stretch of Q4, the perfect time to reflect on our progress and gear up for a strong finish to 2024.
🎃 Quick Halloween Tip: As you plan the perfect costume, now's the time to ensure your business strategy for the coming year is dressed for success.
Let's dive into how we've worked hard to get you value this month.
This month, we shipped these value enhancers to the platform:
Accountability and Ownership Charts: We added significant updates to this tool for point-and-click ease and one-click printing.
Project Playbooks/Outline View: Enhanced for even better usability and use.
"The Math of Trust" is a new guide to help leaders lead better, and managers manage more effectively. It helps leaders build trust within their teams, improving collaboration, performance, and the bottom line.
Communication Tool Guidelines: We have a new playbook resource to help teams use the right communication tools at the right time, enhancing productivity and reducing information overload.
Workflow Rules: choose whether you want to review assignments you've made before they show as "done."
🔍 Feature Spotlight: Streamlined Accountability and Ownership Charts
Stay in flow as you build out your Ownership and Accountability Chart. Just point and click to assign an owner to a seat, add existing rocks or measurables (OKRs and KPIs if you're not running EOS), or create new seats. Learn more about the benefits of this new twist on the org chart here.
These updates help you with:
More intuitive, point-and-click cues for quick seat and chart creation
Effortless 1-click integration with existing goals, rocks, and metrics
Flexibility to accommodate various management frameworks and business operating systems (EOS, OKRs, KPIs)
1-click printing for easy sharing and reference
🏆 Customer Headlines
CoPoint Data: Presenting to Dipesh Patel's EO Forum Group was a pleasure. Dipesh, Co-Founder of CoPoint Data and ConnectPoints, showcased his new Accountability Chart to his EO Forum group. He highlighted how easy it was to set up in ResultMaps and the inspiration and clarity from setting it up. CoPoint is helping mid-market companies get the full business benefits of combining their data with AI, led by seasoned, proven founders John Humphrey and Dipesh. If you are or know a mid-market company on the Microsoft stack that wants to efficiently unlock the power of their data, check out CoPoint.
Octain Growth Systems: We loved starting Octain Growth Systems onboardings in October. It was fun to see their outstanding system for marketing ops translated into ResultMaps projects and playbooks within hours. Industry veteran Clare Price leads OGS. They do for marketing operations what every outstanding sports program does to create high performance: they ensure diligence in the little things that matter to drive outstanding results. Octain's focus on diligence in marketing is inspiring, and they've recently been named a partner of EOS Worldwide. Check them out.
📚 This Month's Book List
Strategy Essentials for Year-End Review + Prep
Here are four must-read books to sharpen your strategic thinking. This list is helpful if you need to do strategic thinking and planning for 2025. Each book here can clarify your thinking and gives you actionable techniques.
"Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters" by Richard Rumelt This book takes a machete to the misuse of "strategy tools" and misuse of the word "strategy" that has been pervasive over the last 50 years. While Rumelt can sometimes be heavy-handed as he discusses what strategy is not, the core ideas are sound. In Rumelt's view, "good strategy" defines one and only one focus. This focus means your organization can and must say "no" to everything else. And this focus allows you to create strength. See more key takeaways here.
"The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists" by Richard Rumelt Elaborating on ideas from "Good Strategy/Bad Strategy," Rumelt uses length and examples to illustrate his points. The key idea is that you must define the one focus - and only one - that will enable all of your goals and desires. That's the "crux," and all your goals and initiatives flow from it. Check out more key takeaways here.
"Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works" by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin After reading Rumelt, I was prepared for another heavy read. I was surprised at how action-focused this book is, and I loved the questions the authors use to frame strategy. The tone is refreshingly modest, focusing on how the head of Procter & Gamble enabled his teams and made good decisions with a portfolio of products. You can apply most of the ideas to a small business despite its corporate focus. Check out essential takeaways Part 1 and Part 2 for more.
"Survive, Reset, Thrive: A Practical Guide for Beating Uncertainty and Thriving in a Post-Pandemic World" by Rebecca Homkes Rebecca Homkes, a powerhouse strategist, has put together a complete playbook for growing in volatile times. She shows how leaders must shift from a planning mindset to a preparing mindset to navigate uncertainty effectively. This book offers outstanding tools and practical guidance for implementing them. See the book review and highlights here. See Rebecca's appearance on the Adaptive Growth podcast here.
📅 Upcoming Events
Join us for an exclusive webinar: "Transform Your 2024 into an Outstanding 2025."
CEOs, founders, and leaders in business whose annual revenue is from $8 to $30 million will benefit from learning how to
Run a practical review of your 2024 results.
Lock in organizational learning.
Track trends and beliefs moving forward (so you can adapt as things change and you learn more)
PREPARE for success in 2025
This webinar will help you shift from a planning mindset to a preparing mindset and set your teams up for success in 2025. Sign up here.
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