What Is Your Career Built On?
You need a platform that makes it easy to turn your insight into a movement. ~ Seth Godin from the book Linchpin There’s a new world of work that exists in today’s marketplace. I call it the New Work Revolution. This new world of work starts with understanding and building a platform for yourself that you can work from to create maximum value in the marketplace. What is a platform and is your career built on one that is solid enough? The reason having a platform is becoming so important is that the work environment is changing. The way we create products in the United States has changed as I
The Value Creation Process
I was going to really outline the value creation process today and then I ran accross the article “Value Creation and Business Success” http://www.pegasuscom.com/levpoints/valuecreate.html and didn’t see much need to go further. It seems like this article has been around awhile but I thought I would share it anyway as most of the principles of value creation for your business are timeless. Before you read the article, get a pen and paper and take notes. Most of all for those who really enjoy a good process, have fun! How are you creating value for your employee, clients and investors
Know Your Why
In business and in your career, it’s important to fully understand why you are doing what you are doing. This seems like such a simple concept but it ends up being the single most important thing that holds businesses owners and wage earners back from success. Know your why and you have the first step to knowing everything else about you and your business. Knowing your why allows you to know your how and your what. In the article “Top 7 Principles For Transforming Your Business From Mediocre To Great”, http://www.1000advices.com guru/business_success_7principles_dc.html. it discusses knowing why your business exists and knowing what the end game result is for your business.
How Much Can You Give For A Dollar?
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” – Henry Ford I love the above quote as I think it really encapsulates why we do business. Value creation should be at the center of all we do. A good friend of mine, Garrett B Gunderson, always says that dollars follow value and that sentence drives my business. We are lucky as small business owners to only have our customers to answer to. We don’t have to worry about pleasing board members or the value
The Intrinsics of Your Business
In business, it’s important to ask questions like, why do I exist and who do I serve? It’s important to look at the intrinsic value of your business to assess these questions. Let’s look at the aforementioned questions, why do I exist and who do I serve, as examples. Why Do I Exist? This is a great question personally as we well as for your business. I ask this question to small businesses in our initial discovery process. I often get answers that have nothing to do with their business. Answers regrading why they exist revolving around money and things for them. Recognition, time off , respect etc etc. The
Maybe you should quit your job.
I ran across an article from my friends at MSN Careers/Career Builder this morning and its’ topic was how to “Bulletproof Your Job”. There were several items in this article that if I did work for someone else would have inspired me to quit. Here’s the article: http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-1724-Career-Growth-and-Change-Bulletproof-Your-Job-4-Ways-to-Stay-Employed/?sc_extcmp=JS_1724_hotmail1&SiteId=cbmsnhm41724&ArticleID=1724>1=23000&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=a6ec8f370ef54343b4b5350aefb766b5-281792667-VN-4&pf=true There are a few items that I had issue with in this article. The first is when they talk about being visible. This is the first way the article talks about keeping your job. It’s not bad advice but if you are “invisible” at your current job my first question would be, why? Is your performance not up to standard? Do you
Your purpose and living your best life possible
One question you may be asking yourself is, “what is my Soul Purpose?”. This is a spiritual conversation that may take years to fully answer and is something that is always developing. I ran accross a comparison last night between mission and purpose. “Purpose is the intuition of your spiritual goal; mission is what you live as you move towards this goal.” www.mudrashram.com/transformationaluses.html I wanted to make sure that it is understood that Soul Purpose and terms like “Life Mission” are not the same thing as sometimes I hear them used interchangably. Now that I have covered Soul Purpose in its’ essence a little more, I wanted to talk about
