Category: Team
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#63: Is everyone in the business smarter today than they were yesterday?
Today, your business needs to be able to adapt and change quickly. Which means you need people in your business that can adapt and change quickly. In fact, your people’s ability to adapt and change quickly could be your biggest competitive advantage. So, you might want to put acquiring new knowledge on everyone’s daily to-do…
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#62: What have we got in our ‘hidden talent bank’?
There’s a difference between talent and skill. Talent is something that you can do naturally. Skill is something that you can learn to do. Very often a person’s biggest talent is NOT the skill they are getting paid for. For instance, ‘Suzy in accounts’ was always good with numbers, so she studied for accountancy ……
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#59: Should we have an Andon Cord?
As you grow your business, it’s essential you ‘let go’ and pass responsibility to your team members. Of course, this isn’t as easy as it sounds, because so many things can slip through the cracks. Oftentimes, this isn’t out of incompetence or neglect … but a result of a flawed system. For instance, let’s consider…
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#57: How should we be celebrating failure?
There might very well be a thousand motivational quotes about failure. A large amount of them attributed to Albert Einstein 🙂 It’s a populist subject. Probably because ‘fear of failure’ affects most people. Evolution has wired us up that way. And very often, right from the very first time we attempted something unsuccessfully … Experience…
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#56: What feedback loops have we engineered?
When it comes to achieving significant goals (such as unleashing growth in your business) – it’s helpful to ask yourself: ‘How do you eat an elephant?’ Of course, the elephant is metaphorical and the answer is ‘one bite at a time’. Simply put, your achievement of big goals is only made possible by the achievement…