Practice This

Recession is not an obstacle to reach your career potential. In fact, it is a catalyst to show off your skills, time to get even better results. Say what? recessions is a catalyst for my career growth? Huh?… In Career Counsel: Follow Your Own Path published on Harvard Business Review, Robert S. Kaplan offers three basic “rules of the road”. Kaplan writes:

by laurenatclemson

1. Managing your career is 100% your responsibility, and you need to act accordingly.2. Be wary of conventional wisdom.3. Have faith that, although justice may not prevail at …

How do you know your are growing your business? How do you know you are on track? Would you run complex statistics and try to correlate the findings? Would you run a survey and then again get buried in stats? In The One Number You Need to Grow Frederick F. Reichheld takes a stand:
by Tuftronic10000

If growth is what you’re after, you won’t learn much from complex measurements of customer satisfaction or retention. You simply need to know what your customers tell their friends about you.

When you do your work, are you:

Task oriented? Or…
Result oriented? Or…
Process oriented?

Why it is important? It is important since different orientations get you different results.

by ogimogi
As part of my quest to become more effective and efficient (read – competitive) I was reading a book by Masaaki Imai, Kaizen: The Key To Japan’s Competitive Success. Masaaki Imai shares in his book the difference between Process Orientation and Result Orientation:
"KAIZEN generates process-oriented thinking, since processes must be improved before we get improved results. Further, KAIZEN is people-oriented and is …