26 DECEMBER 2025 WorldWide Drilling Resource® For more information, call 480-609-3993 info@mountainstatesgroundwater.com mountainstatesgroundwater.com \ Raffles \ \ Exhibits \ \ Seminars \ \ Networking Opportunities \ \ Buck Lively Scholarship Auction \ Corporate Discipline by Tim Connor There are average companies and there are good companies. There are poor companies, and then there are great companies. Each operates in the same economy; has the same pool of potential employees; develops its employees or doesn’t; has competition; must deal with the government in some way; has opportunities for growth; makes a variety of decisions each day; is on the path toward excellence or mediocrity; lives its core values or doesn’t every day; believes in its mission, people, and destiny - or doesn’t. I could go on, but there are a few things that separate the poor, good, or average companies with the great and outstanding ones. For over 50 years, I worked with hundreds of organizations worldwide in a wide variety of industries, and I can tell you my unscientific but real-world research and observations that the good, poor, or average companies could be great ones if they would only have the courage, discipline, will, and commitment to operate with a few but basic premises or principles. In summary, I believe they are: 1. Find what you are passionate about and only do that. Resist the pull toward opportunities - no matter how alluring or tempting - that offer quick cash, fame, market share, or whatever if these opportunities are not at the core of your fundamental business. 2. Success in business is not about timing, products/services, competition, state of the economy, or having good people. It is about having the RIGHT people in the RIGHT jobs doing the RIGHT things at the RIGHT time. And, it is getting the wrong people out of your organization as soon as you realize they are the wrong people. 3. Corporate culture is always a top-down issue. Great companies create a corporate culture that permits freedom, innovation, initiative, and an empowering environment while providing general guidelines and accountability whereby people can operate with minimum supervision and inspection with the freedom to fail, learn, grow, and create. 4. Outstanding companies understand the key is not to motivate people, but to find people who are motivated while management does its best to not demotivate these people. 5. Successful companies invest more in their people than they do any other corporate expenses. And, if they are the right people, they then step back and watch the company soar beyond their wildest dreams. 6. Managers and executives of outstanding companies understand the simple rules of human behavior: • You get the behavior you reward. • You have to inspect what you expect. • You must hold people accountable. • People want to do their best. Are you working for or running a great company, or an average one? In His service, Tim Tim Connor may be contacted via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com
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