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Create The Conditions (that create the conditions) For Success
Courage is not something you’re born with. Courage is something that defines you only when you face adversity and overcome it. Which means, you can’t demonstrate courage until you find yourself, or put yourself, in the position to prove you are courageous. To rise to the opportunity! In business, proving you’re courageous is done by making … [Read more...]
Repost from iQuestinc.com Weaknesses, by traditional definition, are attributes of your company that are inferior to your competitors. A common response to identifying weaknesses is to try to fix what's wrong or improve it. Only one problem. Just because something you're doing as a company might appear to be "inferior" doesn't necessarily mean … [Read more...]
Reposted from iQuest Inc. Old school thinking describes a strength as something you're good at while a weakness is an "area for improvement". Whether you're talking about an employee or your company, these traditional precepts for strengths and weakness actually do more to distract you from seeing the opportunities than they help to clarify … [Read more...]
We make luck possible. Companies aren't successful or fall apart because of some magical stroke of luck. We do things, right or wrong, that impact the eventual outcome. Sure we get blindsided, and yes, we score a fluke every once in a while, but even those don't happen without our contribution. The secret, that's not really so secret, is that … [Read more...]
Is it that time of year for your company? Time to pull together your numbers, check what you did last year that you can refurbish, then sketch out some rough plans? Welcome to budget planning mode. The problem is that budget planning requires strategic planning, and strategy shouldn't be condensed into an annual event. It's not simply about … [Read more...]
