Nobody rises to low expectations

Do your people know what you expect from them?

Capitalist economies grow

(You know that old story about the poor guy who wins the lottery and where he is in 5 years?)  

Capitalist economies grow because they reward wealth to it’s creators, who have already proven they know how to invest it and increase it.

Can you be a creator and good steward of value?

Meritocracy at work

I don’t pay some people more because they have been here longer, because of their age, or for any title.  I pay them based on the value they bring to our customers and goals.  It’s the right thing to do.

What do you think?

Process

There’s a process for getting the results you’re getting now – it’s what you’re doing.

There’s also a process for getting the results you want.  Do you know it?  Do you follow it?

Social Program Administrator

The best social program going is a job.  Businesses like yours create jobs by adding value to their customers lives, so that those customers freely exchange money for the company’s product or service.

Congratulations!  You are making the world a better place and taking care of people! 

Trust

You can’t own trust.  It’s a two way exchange, and given to you by others.  It’s a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing.  There more ways you can reveal your authentic self, listen to others, and give them control, the more you will build trust.  

Do your people trust you?

Go Home

It’s 6 pm and you still have lots of work you think you need to do.  Your family needs you.  Dinner is ready.  You are pulled in two directions and you feel the pressure and frustration.  What do you do?

Is it worth having a poor family life and regrets because you weren’t there, even if your business made it?  There’s no guarantee that you working late will make any difference anyway – you’ve been doing that for years and you still think you need to.  But all you have to do to make your family life work is to go home.

The choice is clear.  Then come back tomorrow and figure out how to reinvent your job at the company you own so that you can get the most important things done in (__X___ hours a week, or by ____pm).

Right?

Just do it

On the job and elsewhere, trying is the best way to learn.

Try it, get stuck, ask questions, keep going.

Are you and your employees learning on the job?

Let Employees Breathe

When a tree grows in a crowded forest it competes with others and can only grow one way – up for survival.   They’re all skinny and weak, none reach their full potential, and many don’t make it.

When a tree grows in a field it expands multi-dimensionally, and becomes all it can.

Micromanaged, over regulated, restricted employees who aren’t allowed to contribute their ideas and talents are like the trees in the crowded forest.

Do you allow your employees to breathe?

The smartest person in your company

If that’s you, you are training everyone to copy you, and all your people have the same weaknesses (and blindness to knowing where the gaps are).

 Hire some people with different knowledge, skills and personalities.  Diversity is good.