What’s wrong with your business?
Maybe nothing. I mean it. Maybe nothing at all. Ponder this question, though: What is the center for my business and how does it show? What’s it all about?
What’s wrong with business?
So, the way music is framed is about art, enjoy, amusement, etc. And the way business is framed: profit product growth brand etc. The thing is, none of those are about the customer. Your customers don’t buy because of what your product, your biz or you do (or even why you do it, depending of the need). They buy from you because you solve something for them. And they don’t care how. If they could achieve that very same thing with a AAA battery, a 5-minute writing process, or a complex…
What’s wrong with me?
Sorry, everybody. Third is a charm: https://www.tiktok.com/@oneminutebass/video/7298332506716146977?is_from_webapp=1&web_id=7327430302627677728
Helping by saying No.
Author, data architect and fellow daily emailer, Andrew Jones, wrote back to “The thing about scope creep” with an awesome insight (bolding mine): “I’d add another one: saying no.I often say that saying no is the most important skill I’ve learned in my career.I always wanted to say ‘yes’, because I wanted to help people, and it was just easier!But I’d end up over promising and under delivering, or be prevented for saying yes to things that mattered more because I’d already promised too much.”…
Slow in the weeds
Collaboration is about getting into the weeds, about messiness. While speed and efficiencies do help, getting faster to the wrong goal or executing flawlessly the wrong thing won’t move the needle. Discussions, sometimes, feel like they get you stuck in the weeds. That it brings friction. And we try to avoid friction. Here’s the thing, though. Without discussions, there are no compromises and it becomes an easy way out when things are meh. It becomes easier to point fingers at. It becomes a…
Focus on Speed + Good Enough
This way you’ll get quickly to the goal. HOWEVER… Getting quick and good enough to the wrong goal is worse than slow towards the right thing. Like the player here ???? The player here did score, with efficiency, mastery and intent. Just at the wrong thing. It’s not about speed, good enough delivery or “avoiding perfect”. It’s about seeing where to go and choosing the right direction. That beats efficiency for the sake of efficiency. Because you’ve seen times over and over wrong things executed…
Cringe
What are words / things in your industry that make you cringe? Number 1 for me this month: Storytelling. Let me know yours?
Working on the weekends
If you want, you can. But here’s the thing, you need to understand this is your choice. If you can’t say no to work, or you need to be working all the time, because any reason, ponder this question: Is this a pattern? When it becomes a pattern, you get “obsessed” with work, it’s not a choice anymore. And you’re in your business because you wanted to make the right choices for you. Disconnect. To-ta-lly. from work. Here are 2 benefits you’ll find: You won’t burn out. You’ll leave your brain to…
Weekends
As an entrepreneur, business owner, solo consultant… do you work on the weekends?
Stages of risk acceptance
In short: when you have nothing, you try, fail and do whatever it takes to get things moving. That takes you to a place where things in the environment are the status quo and you break it. However, when you get to the first results, you want predictability. So you try and fail less and embrace the status quo. You get afraid of things failing now. You have more at stake. And that can hold you back. What Blair Enns calls the The Innoficiency Problem.