Check out this video about the “Backwards Brain Bicycle” and how our brains work when we have to relearn something we think we already know. It struck me as especially meaningful, given the speed of change businesses are experiencing due to the convergence of technology and its impact on human potential. When something is easy, people say…
read moreStarting today, if you make a 1% improvement to your business everyday, what will your results be in one year? It’s called the theory of marginal gains and it took Sir Dave Brainsford 5-years of 1% improvements to lead the British cycling team from winning only a single gold medal in 76-years to winning 10…
read moreIf you put one foot on a block of ice and one foot on fire your average temperature should be just right. This silly analogy speaks to the problem with data (especially averages). Without comparison, contrast, and context the performance data about your business tends to lack meaning or it can even be misleading. Unfortunately,…
read moreNobody knows better than you how hard it is to start and grow a business. Sure, there are those times when things are easy. But even during the “easy times”, you remember how hard you worked to get where your are today. The good news is, once we’ve experienced some success, we have a repeatable…
read more[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1599072386026{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]If you operate a successful business, you know there are always things that could work better, but sometimes it’s hard to see exactly what and how. Take the process you use to acquire new customers, your sales funnel. At its highest level, a sales funnel consists of a top, middle and bottom. Let’s call…
read moreStarting today, if you make a 1% improvement to your business every day, what will your results be in one year? It’s called The Theory of Marginal Gains, …and it took famed cycling coach, Sir Dave Brailsford, 5 years of 1% improvements to lead the British Cycling Team from winning only a single Gold Medal…
read moreIt was Heraclitus who is first quoted as saying: “Change is the only thing that is constant.” First of all, doesn’t this quote beg the question: How much change was going on around 500 years before the birth of Christ, compared to today? I guess there was the constant threat of being attacked…
read moreIt doesn’t take special powers to see what we “woulda, coulda, shoulda” done in the past, after the fact. We all have regrets about the past… an opportunity we missed, if we only knew what we know now. They say hindsight is 20/20. But it takes foresight to combine a vision of the future with…
read moreIt is easier to paddle a canoe on a calm lake. Resilient systems are much more efficient and effective. They rely on workflows that function in spite of setbacks, barriers or even limited resources. They do not rely on top-down hierarchical structures but, instead, they create a latticework of self-organization. Its faster to get where…
read moreYou know that thing where you become aware of something—an unfamiliar word, item, image, or action—and then see it again and again, seemingly everywhere you look. It’s called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. …It works in the other direction, as well. Troxler Fading is an optical illusion where, if we are presented with a steady image in…
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