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Focus on Actions? or Focus on Outcomes?

by Rick Baker
On Jul 30, 2014

When we get the actions right the outcomes tend to naturally follow.

When we don’t get the outcomes we want we must change and improve our actions.

When we focus on actions too much we can choke.

When we are in the zone of excellent performance we envision and are pulled toward outcomes.

Focus on Actions? or Focus on Outcomes?

Success is maximized when we know when to select and how to perform the two strategies.

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Thinking as in Think and Grow Rich

People self-motivate when you provide situations that combine structure with ability to be creative.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 29, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Situations of pure structure don't promote motivation; situations devoid of structure promote unfocused motivation; situations can be constructed to uncrush creativity.

Well-designed process can co-exist with creativity: well-designed process can breed creativity.

Business Contains Only 3 Things: People, Process, & Situations

Spirited Leaders design situations, providing the opportunity to maximize self-motivation. Designing situations: that's the path to motivated work performance.

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Desire: the fan that stokes the flames of imagination.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 28, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Desire - desire for something - isn't that what stokes imagination?

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Touching & holding imagination: can there be anything more magical?

by Rick Baker
On Jul 28, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Imagination waits for us at the oasis where human excellence refreshes itself.

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That Aversion to the Details

by Rick Baker
On Jul 28, 2014

When people are at work, why do they avoid the details?

Do they feel they are too busy and do not have time to attend to the details?

Do they think the details are someone else's responsibility rather than part of their job?

Do they feel too bored or too fatigued to bother with the details?

Do they choose to avoid the details so they can concentrate on big-picture things?

Do they choose to avoid the details because they know others are more skilled with the details?

Do they choose to avoid certain details so they can think about other details?

Do they feel frustrated as they avoid the details?

Do they feel energized as they avoid the details?

Do they feel weakened as they avoid the details?

Do they feel strengthened as they avoid the details?

Does their business falter as they avoid the details?

Does their business gain advantage as they avoid the details?

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That aversion to the details can be a wonderful thing for all involved...or it can be brutal.

If that aversion to the details is a wonderful thing at your workplace then figure out how to replicate it.

If that aversion to the details is a brutal thing at your workplace then figure out how to stop it.

Imagine the possible: create the impossible.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 27, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Imagination triumphs over impossibility.

If you disagree, just watch others as they pass you.

If you agree, find others who will run with you.

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