I recently wrote an article about getting the most out of what you’ve got.
There is another aspect of high performance I would like to address today. John Dudeck introduced me to this one of his concepts about 10 years ago.
I wrote about perspective the other day and it reminded me of the universal law of relativity. John Assaref covered it recently in his blog. He made the observation one’s wealth depends upon its relativity to Bill Gates or a citizen of the third world. I enjoyed reading it and how well it dovetailed into the point I made about perspective.
It also reminded me of a conversation I had with him earlier this year about the Five Musts for Success.
I have coached my clients how delightful it is to move past problem solving to opportunity exploiting.
Think of yourself and your team as having a generally fixed level of energy. Fundamentally this energy store is applied to taking action appropriate to driving your organizational success.
However, if you have great many issues, problems and mistakes to constantly address, your energy must, or at least should, be applied to their solution. There are at least two key points here. First, if you are not correcting your troubles and working on opportunities instead, you may be eroding the very foundation of the organization. Second, being in a constant fix-it mode is emotionally draining and demotivating.
Jay Abraham, a man I have referred to in the past, had a philosopher as a colleague. Spike Humer served as Jay’s COO until he founded his own firm this summer.
Jay gathered a group of primarily entrepreneurs from nearly 20 countries to hear from about 2 dozen sages in marketing in business.
At the end of the affair, Spike had an opportunity to share some of his thoughts on life. I think you will like them.
