Do you look like a business 5 years in the future or one 5 years in the past.
The world moves so fast today we have to be creative and innovative all the time - what's next - has to be a key focus of your business strategy
It's no good just having a strategy or plan today - it has to be a REVOLUTIONARY strategy!
So what was in this tweet that motivated me to write this post?
Who motivates you, who inspires you, who do you want to be like? It might be a famous person, a company or someone you know, but we all have people that we can look at and say "I wish I was more like that". However that's where most of us stop - just wishing!
Stop wishing start acting - identify 3 people/businesses that you admire and then ask yourself why you chose them, because that is what you want more of. Then you can start to identify how they operate differently to what you are doing...
When you look at many of the new companies that are success stories today, you see a very loose leadership style. Lots of empowerment, self responsibility, teamwork etc. Apple, Google, 37 Signals, Innocents Smoothies and so on, are all companies where you will see this 'new' way of working.
I have always believed that we can all do it right! We can all be fantastic at whatever it is we want to do – the difference between the successful people and everyone else is that they do it right – they are fantastic – CONSISTENTLY.
But how? Are they sub-human – somehow different to the rest of us?
Maybe they don’t get sick, feel tired, have hangovers, relationship problems or bad moods?
Or, are they exactly they same as everyone...
Sometimes we all lose the passion for what we do - I guess it's natural, only human - however it's tough to BE Fantastic when you're not passionate.
So how do you get the passion back?
The first step is to be clear about the difference between what you do and what your job is.
If we met at a party and you asked me what I do - I wouldn’t, but I could answer like this; “I drive up and down motorways, fly around the world, stand in rooms that are too cold or too...
In a world of such rapid change creativity is becoming a critical skill - so many people tell me that they don't think they are creative, but we all are - we would not survive without being creative.
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