We’ve talked about the importance of taking action on many occasions … and in many forms.
I’ve been known to follow this mantra … Ready – Aim – Fire … when I realize it’s better to fire at something … “take action” … than to spend too much time aiming.
Try it. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Throughout my long career, I have never found a better single criterion for a superior performer than their attitude.
Have you found a different word that works for you in identifying your best employees? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
This is a good way to think about the impact you want to have.
You don’t have to invent the cure for cancer or world hunger to register your footprints.
You don’t need to be perfect or act perfectly.
Focus on the impact you can have on your family, friends and colleagues no matter how small that circle.
You can make a lasting impact … just not by sitting down.
At your peril, you can ignore this cornerstone of your business … but it will ALWAYS come back to TEAM.
There is NO substitute for a Great Team … whether it’s the leadership team at the top of the food chain or a small team you’re managing inside of a particular functional group.
Making your team as strong as possible will create a powerful and positive difference to your performance this year.
Feel free to reach out to me directly. We can think about it together so you AND your team can knock the ball out of and park in 2019.
Happy New Year, my friends.L et’s see what we can accomplish together in 2019!
Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. ~ Oscar Wilde
The New Year is always a great time for renewal and for a fresh start … but don’t let yourself get bogged down by a bunch of new resolutions that you most likely will never keep.
In fact, just embrace Oscar Wilde’s simple mantra for 2019.
If you woke up yesterday morning with sugar plums dancing in your head, most likely Santa made it down the chimney … and you found Rudolph stretched out on the ottoman with a cup of egg nog in hand.T here’s a powerful lesson in here for you.
“Seriously?” my wife said.
“You’re really singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer while you’re getting dressed this morning?”
I’m afraid so.
Honestly, I have no idea how that song got into my head on Christmas morning.
Maybe because Rudolph … along with Santa and Frosty … are the most iconic images of a secular Christmas?
Why is Christmas like a day at the office? Because you do all the work, and the fat guy in the suit gets all the credit.
Maybe all that … but for just a moment, I stopped to consider the words … mostly to figure out how to convince my wife I hadn’t lost it … yet.
When I did, it dawned on me that there’s a very timeless message in this simple tune that applies to all of us entrepreneurs … and everyone else trying to find their way in this world.
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