In 2009 I first discovered Verne Harnish and his disciplined approach to creating gazelle-like entrepreneurial businesses: The Rockefeller Habits.
Since then, The Physio Co has steadily introduced our TPC’d version of Verne’s system with great success. In fact, implementing The Rockefeller Habits has been one of the most significant changes we’ve ever made. It has helped us create more time and better control our growth than I ever imagined was possible.
One of the best pieces of advice I received about executing The Rockefeller Habits however did not come from Verne and it was more about what not to do…
You see in mid 2009 I visited HeartQuarters, the home base of Nurse Next Door - one of Canada’s best places to work, fastest growing franchise systems & committed Rockefeller Habits fans. At this meeting with co-founder Ken Sim, we discussed many entrepreneurial systems that we both use eg. Topgrading, Lean, Painted Pictures & The Rockefeller Habits. As the conversation ended and I started to walk away, Ken said “Don’t try and do them all at once”. When I asked him to clarify, he explained that, in his experience, implementing all of The Rockefeller Habits at once was not a great idea. Picking something that will have the biggest impact and slowly adding new systems was a better way of implementing.
Since 2009, The Physio Co has slowly added more and more of the habits. But even now, after more than two years, we still don’t do them all. Maybe we never will…
Systems need to be created and implemented in a way that will create lasting change: slowly and carefully.