The Importance of Discipline in an Organization
Matt Keegan has worked as an editor since 1992. He has edited technical manuals, newsletters and articles for several aviation and automotive companies and is currently the editor and publisher of “Auto Trends Magazine.” Matt earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Ramapo College of New Jersey.
No One Knows all the Pain that I need to Impose on My Body – Monfils on Discipline
“People sometimes they think it’s easy to come back,” Monfils said. “They see me move easy. They see me quite chill and laughing and doing that. As I say, no one knows all the pain that I need to impose my body to get back into shape. All the mental discipline.”
Monfils has continued his resurgence this week in Cincinnati, where he will face Alex de Minaur on Wednesday.
When we watch him sprint around the court like a 26 year old, we should keep in mind that it is not easy to make 36 be the new 26.
“People, they see always the good stuff, always smiling, always the show, always the charisma, the wins, the followers, the nice picture and this,” Monfils said. “They are never there when it’s raining, your coach is there screaming at you, that you need to work, all this.
“People, they think we are rabbits. Like, wow, we wake up and we super happy to go run for an hour and do the fitness. Some days is tougher, as for everybody. That’s part where we better as athlete because we have this discipline.”
Execution Management: the most important discipline you’ve never heard of
Most companies simply aren’t running at their full capacity.
Before anyone gets defensive, this is a truth widely documented by data across every core function of the business. In The 2021 State of Business Execution Benchmarks Report — a survey of over 2,000 business leaders across six countries, eight industries, and four different lines of business — the difference between average and best performing KPIs is significant enough to be costing companies hundreds of millions of dollars.
That data bears out patterns we see elsewhere. According to the report for example, the average on-time delivery rate in the supply chain is only 48.5%. In the meantime, Amazon is out there achieving 98.9%.
In Finance, the average company has a Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) of just 48.4 days, whereas top performers achieve a DPO of 74.5 days. That has huge implications for their working capital.
And when you look at Customer Service, the average net promoter score is only 31, compared to leading performers hitting scores as high as 97. Again, you can imagine the impact that has on customer experience.
In other words, most companies are not doing as well as they could be. COVID-19 made this clearer than ever, showing up the gap between where we are and where we need to be.