Rocks and Clay

Some things shouldn’t change: your values, belief in yourself, your persistence.  Rocks.

Some things should change: “How you do it,” your processes and systems, and even your business model.  Clay.

Many failures were caused by businesspeople who changed things they shouldn’t, and did not change what they should have.

Creating Value

Your rewards not what you want them to be?

The marketplace is telling you that you aren’t helping other people enough.

And there is your secret for improving your situation.

Choosing your income

Of the 7 billion people you share this planet with, most have no prospects of improving their income.  Others just weren’t born into the right family.

You are blessed to be HERE, NOW, where you can choose your income and thus your economic destiny.

How to do it, we know.  WILL you do it, is up to you.

What will you do with your great opportunity?

Why great business leaders fail

Likely you think you are good because of a past success.  Then you try something new and it fails (or languishes and hasn’t succeeded YET). 

But have you put the same passion, energy and time into the new venture as you did in the old one where you succeeded?

Should you?  Will you?

Consider you’ve been wrong

Maybe you haven’t been.  But the mature person looks for the truth – the brutal facts. 

Sometimes we have such an investment, emotionally and financially, that we look to prove we are right, even when we are not.

Pull your ego out and see things for how they really are.

How are they?

The “Impossible”

What is “impossible” to do today in your business, but if it could be done, would change your business or world forever?

Go do it.

Focus on what is wrong

Managers will tell you what is right.  Leaders need to rise above and look for where what is happening doesn’t match goals, potential or objectives.

You need to call it when nobody else will.  Then fix it.

What’s wrong with your business? 

Compliment Relay Stations

Some people work at places for 20 years and never get a compliment about their work.

Compliment someone.  As the leader it means a LOT to people coming from you.  You have a sparsely used positive power most leaders don’t even understand.  It costs nothing and takes so little time.

If they know that you feel they are doing a good job, guess what they are more likely to think about you and the company?

Are you a good leader?

Unless you are one of a two- or three-person operation overseeing every transaction, you can’t get happy customers with employees who aren’t happy.

You’re in the people business.  Unlock the best in your people, so your customers can get what they want from your company through them.

Your employees ARE your business.  Right?

Employees – Gotta Love ’em!

You have a choice.  You can see them as problems to be dealt with, watched, controlled and defended against – or see them as the lifeblood of your business. 

Without employees who feel respected, safe and valuable, you’re going to be fighting it the whole way – and you’re not going to be happy.

How would your actions and attitudes say you see it?