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Thought Tweet #625

by Rick Baker
On Dec 7, 2012

Thought Tweet #625 Know what you know, see what you don't know: then, learn about making your business grow.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

There's an old saying, "What you don't know cannot hurt you."

...not a good idea to apply that to business

In business, 2 functions reign over all others. They are: Strategic Planning and Risk Management.

At the heart of Risk Management:

  • discovering how to uncover & see what you don't know - being present & checking reality
  • anticipating situations that contain risk and considering & planning for them before they happen

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Business Contains Only 3 Things | Business Plan: Writing Plans | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #624

by Rick Baker
On Dec 6, 2012

Thought Tweet #624 When business leaders can step aside, understand their challenges, and express them without bias...solutions are at hand.

 

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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I'm too busy! - I don't have time! | Solutions & Opportunities | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #623

by Rick Baker
On Dec 5, 2012

Thought Tweet #623 When it comes to your work - Who mentors and coaches you? How does that happen?

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

The best athletes have mentors and coaches.

The best musicians have mentors and coaches.

The best artists have mentors and coaches.

Who mentors and coaches you?

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Questions?: The Art of Asking Good Questions | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #622

by Rick Baker
On Dec 4, 2012

Thought Tweet #622 When it comes to your work - What do you practice? How much do you practice?

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

The best athletes practice.

The best musicians practice.

The best artists practice.

What do you practice?

Thought Tweet #621

by Rick Baker
On Dec 3, 2012

Thought Tweet #621 Procrastination feeds on negative feelings....so, you can put it on a diet.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

You can reduce your negative feelings and starve procrastination. Or, you can approach procrastination with positive feelings and...procrastinate for success.

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Emotions & Feelings @ Work | I'm too busy! - I don't have time! | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #620

by Rick Baker
On Nov 30, 2012

Thought Tweet #620 As a rule, you don't see happy faces when people are struggling with their work.


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

People struggle when they lack required talents, they lack opportunity to use their talents, they lack the knowledge required to do the task, or they lack experience.

Rather than seeing happy faces, which happen naturally when people are using their personal strengths, when people struggle with their work you are more likely to see...


  OR   OR  OR EVEN 

 

Create a Strengths plan - Learn people's strengths - Engage people's strengths.

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Emotions & Feelings @ Work | STRENGTHS: People-Focused for Success | Thought Tweets

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