Very few businesses create a good strategy, but of the ones that do almost every single one that I have seen is missing this one thing, and it’s the difference between success and failure. It’s your business rhythm.
How often have you written a plan only to find that it fails to be executed with excellence?
I know in that past that I certainly have.
The key is to get clear on your daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly meeting rhythm that ensures consistent execution.
It’s common sense, but it’s not common practice.
There’s a tendency to gather information, and more information, and more information, indefinitely if a decision is important.
Your next 40 years will be determined by your next ten years.
A mantra I live by in business is, ‘tolerance is the enemy of excellence.’
Functional fixes are not solutions for existential misalignments.
If you’re buying your lunch from someone, what happens if he’s 20cms shorter than you?
It’s almost certain that what’s being agreed isn’t fully understood.
Don’t be a dick.
Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”
In tennis, the majority of the game is spent volleying.