To get what you want; stop doing what isn’t working.
–Dennis Weaver
You have your To Do list.
Do you have a Not To Do List?
Jim Collins’ book Good To Great was the first time I was introduced to this concept and I found it fascinating.
The basic concept is we all have idiosyncrasies which sap our productivity day […]
Archive for September, 2007
Part 2 of my 10-part series Top 10 Mistakes Small Business Owners Make and How to Avoid Them.
Mistake #2: Small Business Owners Don’t Articulate Their Vision
I’m not a fan of what I’ll call ‘fad management’. I remember the days of Fast Company and the like espousing the free wheeling rules to the ‘New Economy.’ […]
Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
-Donald Marquis
I’m what Marcus Buckingham would call an ‘Achiever’.
What gets me jazzed more than anything? Getting stuff done. Ticking stuff off my list. That’s what gives me a sense of accomplishment.
It’s not uncommon. It’s almost […]
Part 1 of my 10-part series Top 10 Mistakes Small Business Owners Make and How to Avoid Them.
Mistake #1: Small Business Owners Measure the Wrong Things
Peter Drucker once said, ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’
So as a business owner you’re faced with some tough questions.
What are the metrics that drive your […]
To do two things at once is to do neither.
–Publilius Syrus
Multitasking.
Hard to believe it’s been a problem since the days of Latin maxim writers (circa 100 B.C.) — but it’s true.
We’d like to blame technology for our hectic lifestyle. But we love to keep busy. If we’re idle for too long, we feel we must […]
What one does easily, one does well.
–Andrew Carnegie
What are you good at? Are you doing it?
One of my biggest challenges as a business owner? Trying to do it all by myself.
Intellectually, I know I can’t excel in all areas of my business. But I spend a lot of time obsessing because […]
The other day I received an email from a new member of our community . I’ll call him Danny because, well, that’s his name.
Danny’s request sounded simple.
He wanted examples of short, intermediate, and long term goals. He wanted strategies used to support these goals as well as some tactics he could use to implement […]
