Begin Again
As we operate our business over the years, we patch and plug and add-on. We modify and tweak and paint over old methods and ideas and processes. Sometimes we create a purring masterpiece; but often we wind up with a patchwork that's not so elegant. It's like cleaning up -…
"Books are made out of books"
When they write the book about your business, will it be a great one? A leader has to be a learner.
Your mileage may vary
Ideas implemented in one business or industry may produce greater or lesser results than the one they were borrowed from. Pay attention. Try things. Be observant of your own business. Rise above it and see what is really happening. To implement the right ideas in the right combination, you…
Blooming Flowers
The product or service the customer experiences is the fruit, the flowering, the peak, pinnacle and purpose of all you have done behind the scenes to make it happen. Had you not built that team, done all that training, invested in that place and equipment, spent all those man hours…
We're all amateurs
Feeling like you don't know how to do things well anymore? It's ok. There's nothing wrong with you. The world is changing at such a rapid rate, that we're all amateurs. Software, apps, gadgets, the cloud, services, free lancers, hardware, 3D printing, the crowd... Get used to it, and take…
Want to make twice as much money?
Just work twice as long. Oh, you can't do that? Well then working longer and harder is not the answer then, is it? It must be something different...
Labor of Love?
For many people who are self employed, they start their business doing X, because they love doing X. But then X becomes a business that has needs - as in you NEED to keep it going. A labor of love turns into a love of labor - until you're…
Will your business work without you?
No? Then it's more of a job you own, rather than a business. If it won't work without you showing up, then it's not worth anything to anyone else. Right? What do you have to do to make it work without you?
What you need to do
You moving your organization forward is about what you need to do, not what you elect to do. We like to do what we're good at, and that will only take an entrepreneur so far. But it's what we aren't good at that we've been avoiding that's been holding us…
Process is messy when you are innovating
When we try to create something new, it can feel like it's not going well (maybe it isn't!) because it's clunky, inefficient, and we aren't good at it. Stay with it. Show others how the sausage is made early, and they can help you make it better, and give you…
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Reboot
We have a quote of the week board in our office and this week’s quote is “The most dangerous phrase in the language is: ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ -Grace Hopper
Yes, thanks, Larry for these great tips and reminders and for taking your time to write them for us. I agree that in business we need to constantly improve on what we did before. It might mean leaving something out or doing something differently as you said. I believe it is part of the Japanese philosophy of constant improvement in life. Thanks again, Larry.
Funny how one action leads to a thought which leads back to inspect a previous action and come up with this other mesmerizing thought … My mind sometimes gets carried away and I find myself facing a wall that has a secret door in the middle. Some mental games are just pure cruel but some mental connections create these occasional unique scalp and body tingles.