Practice This

Get out of comfort zone and move to where all the great things happen. Take few friends with you along the way too.

It’s easier to say than do. Or is it?

In the book Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success the authors offer prescriptive strategies that were scientifically proven to work and help change happen.

If you need to build or renew your business model consider following an approach presented in the book by  Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers. It provides prescriptive guidance and architecture how to build your new business model. The authors also provide several case studies where the approach effectively applied to Nintendo, Amazon.con, Apple, Google and many others. The core artifacts are The 9 Building Blocks and The Business Model Canvas.

Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants: Breakthrough Tactics for Winning Profitable Clients is a book by Jay Conrad Levinson and Michael W. McLaughlin I’d recommend anyone, not only consultants.
My biggest takeaways from the  book is a marketing mindset I should have as a consultant and also the prescriptive guidance on how to build my marketing strategy.
Here is my distillation. Read on…

Top performers are the best kept secret of a winning team. Losing team is not an option today. How do you make your team all stars team? How do you win, let alone survive in today’s reality?
 by roy²

In her Four Ways to Improve Your Team’s Performance Daisy Wademan Dowling digests New York Times article about Tom Donnelly’s strategy of building a winning team:
Spend as much time with the slowest runner as with the fastest.
Take away performance pressure by adding perspective — and fun.
Accept inevitable setbacks — and move …

“What is it that inspires you to do your best work?” – this is the first line of the newsletter email I have just received from Dale Carnegie. Doing my best I can is one of my quests. I kept reading the newsletter. I found simple but powerful recipe to inspire others.
by Steven Fernandez

Managers, Consultants, Parents! Consider adopting it. I tried it and it perfectly works. Here is the recipe:

Don’t dictate — inspire
Don’t direct — win people to your way of thinking
Begin with praise …