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Jun 28 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Judgement and Curiosity

One of my heroes, Howard Brinton, often says, “get out of judgement and into curiosity.”

Don’t judge the new system. Get curious about the results.

Don’t judge the book cover. Open it. Read it.

Don’t judge the song in the first 20 seconds in. Listen fully.

Your life will alway feel like it’s in rewind when judgement rules the mind.

Curiosity is the precursor of all forward progression.

So to get from point A to point B, we’ve got to start asking questions, wondering why, finding why, understanding what’s written between the lines, and reporting back.

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Jun 27 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Imagination, Leadership

The Competitive Advantage of Speed and Response

Response and speed will be the competitive advantages the great enterprises seek in the decades to come.

You can own any market with a simple 3 step formula:

1). Find the market.

2). Identify the market’s needs.

3). Respond with a remedy.

Could it be more simple?

Of course your remedy response is the most courageous step you’ll have to take, but he who can boldly take these three steps the fastest wins in the marketplace.

And after you respond with a remedy to the need – keep listening.

We love when our favorite bands and businesses actually play the music we requests.

 

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Jun 14 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

The Bridges

There is a bridge between your dream and your reality.

Think of those you classify as a hero, mentor, or leader. They live on these bridges. They are never content on this side of the ravine.

Ask them how they got to where they are and they always go back to their stories of finding, building, and sometimes even stumbling onto these bridges.

There is a bridge to wisdom. There is a bridge to love. There is a bridge to wealth. There is a bridge to creativity. There is a bridge to peace. There is a bridge to fulfilment.

Just know that what got you here won’t get you there. You’re going to need another bridge.

Dreaming is the easy part, but reality will require a bridge.

And if you can’t find a bridge, please find a way to build one.

The world needs you on the other side of the ravine.

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Jun 11 2012
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Business, Discipline, Focus, Leadership

Know-It-Alls

One of the problems graduating from school, finishing a book, or having listened to a message is that we get really proud of what we now know.

I would argue that today, at this very moment, you know most of what you need to know to succeed in your ventures.

You know what you should or should not eat. You know who you need to call. You know the difficult tasks that need to be done. You know. I know you know.

You know what it would take to think back on your day as you drive home this evening and be able to check ‘yes’ on “denting the world.”

Some thoughts for your Monday:

Resistance is very content with your knowledge bank, as long as you don’t go spend its deposits.

Know-it-all’s are noisy. Do-it-all’s are quite musical.

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Just doing it > Just knowing it.

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May 25 2012
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Discipline, Leadership

Cut, Lead. Cut, Lead. Cut, Lead.

Want to be the efficiency leader, be the cutting wasted time leader. The proverbial smoke break has swapped places with social media. Think about it.

Want to be the customer service leader, then lead your current customers and cut out chasing the customer that will never be yours. You current customers will be mainly responsible for your new customers in the years ahead anyway.

Want to be the profit leader, be the cost cutting leader. Do more with less.

More of something is always available when less something is around or being attended to.

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