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 Archive for the ‘leadership’ CategoryBreakthroughs don’t come from being reasonable…Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 Being unreasonable leads to breakthroughs in profits and everything else (DNA) Compare and contrast: incrementalism and breakthroughs. The Incremental Improvement Strategy is based on finding things in your business that could work better and making small changes. Year after year your operations improve slightly and bit-by-bit become more efficient and more effective, producing small, consistent dividends for you and your family, and your investors if you have them. How to make mistakesWednesday, April 13th, 2011 Don't make bad decisions because you didn't know any better This is serious… And it might come as a surprise, but from time to time, I’ve been known to make bad decisions… And weirdly, some of my clients do too. Bad decisions will cost you money, cost you time and eat into your profits. In the worst case, one bad decision can totally kill off your business. Actually we all make bad decisions, and most of these “mistakes“ are not caused by a lack of knowledge or a shortage of skill. Often they are errors in judgment, caused by one or another of the basic personality flaws, the kind that are deeply imbedded in our brains and our culture. Context is DecisiveThursday, January 6th, 2011In plain English, context means framework. When I say Context, I mean the mental framework in your head. It’s composed of things like beliefs, values, expectations, access to and variety of language, point of view, past experiences, and so on. Even your momentary blood sugar or hormone levels can shift your context. It colors how you interpret every event both internal or external. Whether you see something as good/bad, happy/sad, opportunity/threat, friend/foe, partner/competitor, worth it/not worth it, investment/expense, nourishing/poisonous, etc., is all given by that mental framework. |
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