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7 Tips for Growing Your Business You Do Not Want to Ignore:
Growing companies must always be ready for the next challenge. If you fail in meeting critical business challenges you will not grow. Challenges often require some type of breakthrough. But do not be misled. A business breakthrough does not have to...
Brainstorming! The Key To Wealth
Advertising executive Alex F. Osborne first coined the word “brainstorming” in the early 1940’s. Since then literally millions of ideas, products, services and solutions have been created and improved on.
Every institution from Fortune 500...
Coping with Meeting Disrupters
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Management Consultants, Creativity, Innovation
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Don't Reinvent the Wheel, Just Get Yours Rolling
"There is no new thing under the sun" wrote the wise author of
Ecclesiastes. The wheel was always present, it just took man
catching up with the idea to implement it. So, there is no need
to reinvent it, is there? But is your wheel rolling? Is the tire
flat? Is there something just "not quite right" in some
situation in your organization or your personal life? Worse yet,
is there an impending doom looming on your horizon?
We all find ourselves in situations where our best-laid plans
did not turn out the way we wanted them to turn out. We work
ourselves into a lather wondering how we are going to fix our
mess, execute our business plan, pull ourselves out of a sales
slump, or some other form of getting our wheel to roll.
One of the best strategies I have discovered throughout my life
and career goes against the grain of so many business "gurus".
Their advice is to "think outside the box". I had a boss once
who lived by that mantra. While he was outside the box, it
seemed someone would come by and nail the lid on the box. The
real solution to the problem was still in the box. Understand
that I am not advocating "closed minded thinking" nor am I an
enemy of creativity. Quite the contrary. It takes some mighty
creative thinking to look at the same set of circumstances over
and over again to ultimately discover something new. More times
than not, though, the solution to the problem was either
overlooked or the problem unforeseen.
Get back in the box. Start the troubleshooting process. In my
early twenties, I got a job at the local cable company and for
about 8 years I
was a service technician. Mind you, I have never
considered myself to be technically gifted. My best work has
always been with people, not technology. But, it was in this job
that I learned the first step in troubleshooting... start with
what you know is bad, identify a place where it is good, and
narrow down what is in between.
Look for the simple solution. Everything complex consists of
many simple parts. It is usually a simple thing that went wrong
that led to a very complex problem. This not always the case as
it may be that there were several simple processes that went
wrong and contributed to a much larger and more complex problem.
The source of a problem can always be found in what I call the 3
Ps. Look into the plan. Was the plan faulty from the get-go? If
not, look into the processes to determine if they were
inadequate to accomplish the plan. Next, look into the people
that implemented the processes that caused ineffective execution
of the plan.
When the wheel is not rolling, reinvention isn't necessary. What
is needed is a turnaround. Sometimes what is needed is a mega
turnaround. Don't be afraid to get help. Learn from the
experience of others to get your wheel rolling again, whatever
your wheel is.
Copyright 2005 Rory Elmore
About the author:
Rory Elmore is an author, consultant, and speaker with over 25
years experience in management, customer service, and technical
operations in the communications industry. Learn more about his
strategies and sign up for the Mega Turnaround newsletter at
http://www.MegaTurnaround.com
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