Thought Tweet #842 In business – discussions are good, decisions are better, and delegated decisions are best.

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Discussions help you determine whether or not you have good/capable people on your leadership team. Quality discussions allow you to help the people you work with.

Decisions set the paths to results, either failures or successes. Learning from failures is the route to better future decisions and top future effectiveness, success, & profit.

Delegation of decision-making authority and accountability is the only way to grow a business. Master discussion first, then decision-making, then the art of delegation.

Thought Tweet #841 Major achievements flow in the wake of small wins.

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Sometimes we find ourselves marveling in the overnight success enjoyed by people and businesses. Sometimes we feel a little twinge of jealousy, wondering why this doesn't happen to us. Sometimes we waste our breath talking about the fortuitousness of this or that person or endeavour.

When we find ourselves tempted to think or talk along those lines we should pinch ourselves. As we wince under our own pinch we should remember major achievements flow in the wake of a series of small wins. Remember, the Beatles paid their dues, for years, in small clubs in Hamburg, Germany before they splashed onto the worldwide music scene. And, hobbyists played with backyard rockets long before NASA put men in lunar modules on the surface of the moon. And Beethoven learned his craft from taskmasters.

Thought Tweet #840.5 "I'm too busy". That's a real good way not to be thinking.

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

I favour abundance thinking over scarcity mindsets. 

If I think "I'm too busy" then I have a scarcity mindset with respect to time, the most-precious commodity...or darned close to it.

So - I must not think "I'm too busy."

And - I must leave "I'm too busy" to the people who embrace those scarcity mindsets.