After finishing Malcolm Gladwell’s amazing book, The Tipping Point
, I decided to take another stab at Michael E. Gerber’s E-Myth Mastery. I have gotten to the chapter entitled, “The Discipline of The Enterprise Leader”, and the something resonated with me this time that hadn’t before—Michael’s idea that discrimination will set a leader apart.
All too often, small business owners find themselves caught up in the minutiae and trivia of everyday work activities and spend equal amounts of energy and time on tasks that have vastly different values in relation to the goals or vision of the business. Discrimination and learning to do it actively is an important lesson to take hold of. Allowing ourselves to quickly decide whether activity is of high value or low value and focusing on the high value will, I am sure, move you more quickly to toward your end.
My exercise for the next week is to discriminate and evaluate everything in relation to my vision.
What can you do next week to move you to make your business become truly world class?
February 3rd, 2007
My favourite quote ever is one that I found in one of Jay Conrad Levinson’s books is this:
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” - General G.S. Patton
For the longest time I had this quote pinned to the bulletin board in my office. It is now burned into my brain.
I have a history of procrastination, perfectionism and perpetual planning. I have found a number of ways to deal with these issues but it is the Patton quote that really brought me to attention (pun intended).
In Search of Solutions
In the last year have read a number of interesting articles on time-management and planning. Here are four of my favourites:
You will notice that three of the four articles are by Steve Pavlina. He is by far one of my favourite blog writers, if you can call him that. No one on the web I have found puts more effort into their articles than Steve. Some of his ideas you may find odd but they will always prove thought proving.
What are Your Favourites?
Let me know what your favourite time-management, procrastination and perpetual planning remedies, techniques and insights you have learned.
Tags: Steve Pavlina, Jay Conrad Levinson, time management, procrastination, planning, getting things done
June 29th, 2006
Management and sales maven Tom Peters has just released a new manifesto “111 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling”. From the first two pages I’d say this one’s a keeper.
Don’t hesitate to check out the other manifestos at ChangeThis.com. Topics are wide ranging and make for great references.
March 9th, 2006