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When business leaders can step aside, understand their challenges, and express them without bias...solutions are at hand.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 24, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

When you are in the heat of day-to-day business work, leadership work, it seems difficult to free up the time to be objective...to step aside and consider the situation in an unbiased way. Regardless, this needs to be done if challenges are to be kept in context and understood. And, these are the first steps toward taking significant business-growth steps.

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Often, the sources of problems are chameleons...appearing to be one thing while in fact being quite different things.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 24, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Wouldn't it be nice if we had X-ray vision so we could see the roots of our problems!

...and Ultrasound....and RADAR...etc.

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Solving Problems: that's the essence of growing relationships with clients and growing business.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 24, 2014

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Problems are the seeds that allow opportunities to flower. And, when problems are solved the results are things of beauty and value. And, from the customers' shoes, providing value is the only reason your business exists.

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Solving Problems: that's the beauty and the beast of business.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 23, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Remember...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

and

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

George MacDonald, Scottish author, (1824-1905)

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Some say, "Forget your mistakes". That's not good advice.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 23, 2014

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  1. Our brains are powerful machines, designed to remember, not to forget. Why waste brain-energy fighting the natural flow?
  2. Invest brain-energy learning from mistakes and then celebrate that learning.

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Better to fix the problem than to fix the blame.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 23, 2014

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Winners seek solutions and think of better places.

Losers agonize over problems and fear uncertainty.

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