Expert Author: Donald Mitchell | Category: Business Irresistible forces tend to make progress slow. But if we embrace the forces by anticipating their potential effects, we an employ strategies that always put us ahead by using the power of the forces.
Expert Author: Donald Mitchell | Category: Business Most businesses are constantly buffeted by forces outside of their control like weather, the economy, changing government regulations, currency shifts, and new technology. This article explains that this problem requires hitching one's wagon to take advantage of the forces rather than fighting against them.
Teams make most improvements. This article looks at how you can go from making ordinary improvements into accomplishing breakthrough, exponential progress by selecting the right team and leader.
Achieving perfect performance is often desirable but traditional carrot-and-stick approaches aren't sufficient to achieve that result. This article proposes using enthusiasm, better communications, and a better redesign process to approach perfection.
Daydreaming is fun, but living those daydreams is infinitely better. This article looks at how to turn your dreams of perfection into everyday joy of having that perfection.
Performance breakthroughs can be most easily established by seeing how natural tendencies to operate perfectly as individuals can be tied to ways that groups operate flawlessly. This article provides an example of how to make such a breakthrough in cost reductions for an organization.
Near-perfect performances are delivered by organizations all of the times. When we look closely at those examples, we can distill principles that can be used to guide near-perfect performances by our organization. Combine these principles into a new way of operating, and you'll soon have a breakthrough in effectiveness. This article shares two examples of how these breakthroughs can be accomplished.
You've probably laughed at the old joke about someone asking directions to Carnegie Hall. The punchline is: Practice, Practice, Practice! That lesson applies to creating the two-hour work week.
If you could accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources, you could finish your current job in two hours a week. Does that strike your fancy? If so, the key step in finding such productivity breakthroughs is identifying the maximum result that can be achieved with reasonable risk and resources, far beyond merely exceeding tomorrow's best practices. This essay shows you how to identify that ideal maximum result.
This essay shows how to exceed the best of what someone else will introduce as tomorrow's best practice in five years. It shows you how to move way beyond tomorrow's best practice in a timely and cost-effective way.
This article will show you how to identify what the world's future best practice will be in five years so you can set your targets for performance well beyond that level and accomplish 20 times more.
Expert Author: Donald Mitchell | Category: Management Measurement helps you achieve the most when focused on your organization's most important processes and most valuable opportunities. This essay shows you how to decide where to apply measurements, what to measure, and how to use measurements to achieve exponential improvements.
Expert Author: Donald Mitchell | Category: Management Many bad habits that harm performance can be overcome by having measurements that your organization understands, pays attention to, and knows how to respond to. This essay explains how to create a universal understanding of how to use measurements to eliminate stalls and point the way to more rapid progress.
Danger from inaction is usually much greater than the danger from action, yet many people act as though the reverse is usually true. This article shows you how to determine where immediate action is wise and how to gain benefits from needed rapid action.
Work processes that needlessly involve people cause your organization and its stakeholders to suffer from delays, misunderstandings, high costs, and minimal effectiveness. Organizations should eliminate the bulk of these work processes and then simplify and automate what remains. These changes free time and resources for more valuable tasks.
Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That's a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall, the most harmful bad habit you can have for delaying improvements. This article explains how you can be sure you are being understood.
Expert Author: Donald Mitchell | Category: Business Many unappealing places and things harbor untapped opportunity because everyone avoids them. This article encourages you to investigate past your first reaction to find out about what you've been overlooking.
Dangerous beliefs lead to harmful actions. This article identifies several dangerous beliefs and describes how to locate other such beliefs and eliminate them so your organization can accomplish 20 times as much with the same time, effort, and resources.
We all want to make fast progress, but often don't know how. These questions will help you find and implement the fastest routes to making your breakthrough imporvements.
Lord Keynes once pointed at that in the long run we are all dead. Achieving more is most beneficial when it occurs rapidly. This article contains an example of how this principle might be applied by a publisher to accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources.
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