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Mirror Mirror On The Wall… Who’s…
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Article Overview: How often do you confront your current reality?
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Mirror Mirror On The Wall… Who’s…
How often do you put your business in front of a mirror?
One of the first steps in growing your business is confronting the brutal facts:
To help you discover the real truth about your business, ask open and honest questions, such as “Is this strategy working?” and “What can we do better?”
Talk to your clients, employees, and suppliers—in fact, everyone whose opinion you value—and ask, “What is the one thing that we could be doing better?”
Also ask, “What went wrong?” “What went right?” “Why do we get the business that we do?” and “What keeps us from getting the business that we don’t get?”
More importantly, having a framework of questions like this helps you to confront issues that shouldn’t be ignored.
The “Stockdale Paradox”, a concept named for Admiral James Stockdale, a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for over seven years.I feel that his paradox sums up this reflection idea.
In Jim Collins’ book FromGood to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t(Harper Collins, 2001), he states, “Every good-to-great company embraced what we came to call the Stockdale Paradox.
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
How often do you confront your current reality?
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To help you discover the real truth about your business, ask open and honest questions, such as “Is this strategy working?” and “What can we do better?”
Talk to your clients, employees, and suppliers—in fact, everyone whose opinion you value—and ask, “What is the one thing that we could be doing better?”
Also ask, “What went wrong?” “What went right?” “Why do we get the business that we do?” and “What keeps us from getting the business that we don’t get?”
“Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.”Getting answers to these tough questions through open dialogue with your clients, employees, and suppliers will help to provide you with information that you can use to solve most problems.
-Baltasar Gracian
More importantly, having a framework of questions like this helps you to confront issues that shouldn’t be ignored.
The “Stockdale Paradox”, a concept named for Admiral James Stockdale, a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for over seven years.I feel that his paradox sums up this reflection idea.
In Jim Collins’ book FromGood to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t(Harper Collins, 2001), he states, “Every good-to-great company embraced what we came to call the Stockdale Paradox.
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
How often do you confront your current reality?
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Re: Where to focus your time?
- Thank you Michelle and Thank you Evan
F-O-C-U-S . . . That has been my biggest challenge since I was 3 minutes old.
My Ex business partner always said " No one can beat Barry [u:1px6ddia][i:1px6ddia]when[/i:1px6ddia][/u:1px6ddia] he's focused". . .With "WHEN" being the proverbial "operative word".
Thanks for holding up the Mirror. That is the benefit of being part of this community.
Thanks again
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Barry
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Whether "The Terminator" and "Wall-E" warn people about the pitfalls of technological advancement... [/quote:4vw6oega]
I don't think that technological advancement is necessarily the problem...just advancement without the necessary human development as well.
For example, one of the interesting things about Wall-E is that it had its message about "rampant consumerism" -- the "villain" behind the story was the huge congomerate Buy N Large, for example...
But when I bought my ticket for the movie, I was handed a watch that the clerks were giving away with each ticket purchased. A cheap watch --- and one that you cannot replace the battery -- so once the battery inside it runs out, the only thing to do with that watch is throw it away -- into a land fill!
So they're giving a message on one hand, and destroying the message on the other!
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- Great American entrepreneurs have been using their names as brand.
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- I didn't want a limit on what I could make. I grew up in the 60's and you didn't have the money making possibilities you have now. I came out of college and went to Wall Street in 1974 as a stockbroker/commodities broker. People were doing well but not the crazy numbers we see today.
All I knew was that the people making big money were the people who were in their own business.
Re: What I'm reading this weekend - Oct 8, 2010
- these are great!
In particular, I liked "you’re already perfect" and "Smashing through the Black Wall of Fear."
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