Seeing is More Powerful than Thinking
Wednesday
Aug 3, 2011
Thinking first is how a lot of MBA's are trained these days to make decisions. The science of analyzing. It limits the possibilities that can show up. There are two other approaches to business that are far more intuitive and interactive – seeing first and acting first.
Professor Henry Mintzburg is an internationally renowned academic and
author on business and management at the McGill MBA program in Montreal. He's a champion for using seeing and acting more than thinking first.
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The greatest way to see and act first is to ask empowering questions and getting your awareness to go to work for you…
Recognizing and Expanding Success
Wednesday
Feb 3, 2010
In my last post I talked about how recognizing and expanding success can be a much more powerful way to build your business than just fixing problems. Yet so many businesses are so busy looking for problems to solve they aren’t able to see the opportunities that are waiting for them. A key to getting out of problem thinking and into expanding success is to have a look at your business with fresh eyes on a regular basis.
One powerful way to do that is to consciously step back from focusing on problems and take a broader look at your business. Take a break and refresh your mind. Then look for what is working. And what could be a source of a lot more business. Ask questions of yourself and other people in your company with an open receptive mind. There are specific ways you can do that. One is to simply ask a question such as:
“What success or opportunity can my business show me?”
A question like this can open up your awareness. If you don’t try to find an answer right away. Be receptive and see what comes.
Stay Fresh, Stay Alive, Stay Open to Greater Possibilities
Tuesday
Jan 19, 2010
A business is often only as successful and innovative as it’s owner’s awareness allows it to be. Even most ‘successful’ businesses are only getting a small fraction of their potential sales and profits. That’s because the owners and managers are not clearly seeing or using optimum strategies and they’re not functioning at peak performance.
They’re often hunkered down, trying to meet the next payroll and waiting for the recession to be over. They don’t have a lively awareness of possibilities. They don’t look at the big picture and see the leveraged strategies that would probably take no more money and effort than they are already putting in.
Top business experts all agree that along with the right strategy you have to you have the right mental attitude. You have to not be affected by the limitations and negativity around you. Or the temporary set backs and aggravations of being in business.
If you want to generate a life and business that really expresses who you are and nurtures the life you love to live, you have to expand past the fear and stuckness that so many people are living. You have to stay fresh and alive.
Jay Abraham is a legend in business consulting. He has helped hundreds of businesses small and large optimize their marketing and make millions of dollars. He has a knack for seeing strategies that can dramatically increase sales and profits. That kind of insight is available to you if you expand your thinking and function from outside the limits most businesses are functioning from.
Expand past the day to day actions of your business and start playing on a much bigger playing ground. Your energy has to be large. You have to receive and be willing to implement much larger possibilities.
Richard Branson for example was brought up by parents who didn’t judge him. They fully supported him. He had a lively curiosity and dynamism that didn’t get squelched. He naturally gathered the resources and people that could make his dreams come true.
He saw the need for a student newspaper. So he started one. Then he saw a better way to provide the new rock and roll music young people in Britain were craving. He started a record store that was a place where kids could hang out and listen to the records they couldn’t find elsewhere.
Richard partnered with someone who knew who the up and coming bands were. His new company Virgin Records caught the huge tidal wave of rock music as it swept through the UK, the US and the rest of the world.
He found a system that worked and he multiplied it. And then he got out at just the right time before the record industry crashed. Fortunately Sir Richard had learned to diversify and had other businesses to keep building his brand of serving people’s needs better.
Opportunities abound. You can find the right strategies that will optimize your business. You may not build a multi- billion dollar business like Virgin, but you can generate your own entrepreneurial success if you’re willing to be and do what it takes. Stay fresh, stay alive, stay open to greater possibilities!
How to Maximize Your Business Results
Friday
Jan 15, 2010
Michael Gerber and his E-Myth ideas are well known at least by name to many entrepreneurs and small business owners. But what does it really take to ‘work on your business’ instead of in it? If you read Michael’s books you know that you have to develop business systems and change your thinking from being self-employed to creating a business that works for you even when you’re away from it. Changing your thinking from working on rather than in your business is often easier said than done.
Working with business clients, I see that a big problem for them is to be able to step back from their business and really see it strategically. It’s so easy to get totally absorbed in the details Even when you have business systems in place, they can’t work optimally for you if you don’t have what Jay Abraham calls Expansive Thinking
Expansive thinking is being able to see the leverage points that can make you a whole lot more money without having to work harder. Such as turning some unique process you’ve developed into a franchisable system you can sell to other companies like yours.
It takes vision and dynamic action to take those opportunities. And a lot of the time, limiting beliefs and even feelings can get in the way of your fully taking advantage of leverage opportunities. What great ideas and dynamic action are you holding back from because your too busy working in your business and don’t fully recognize it?
Jay Abraham and Expansive Thinking
Wednesday
Jan 13, 2010
Business building legend Jay Abraham talks about how expansive thinking and the right strategy can make your business thrive during this recession. Jay has hundreds of personal stories of optimizing a business with a simple powerful strategy that specifically works to maximize that businesses bottom line.
But as he says you have to expand past the busyness of working in your business. That can require personal change. Fear or doubt or just being too busy can stop you from acting strategically and dynamically. Sometimes you have to shift your energy in order to really take advantage of new opportunities.
Even most ‘successful’ businesses are only getting a small fraction of their potential sales and profits. That’s because they’re not clearly seeing or using optimum strategies and they’re not functioning at peak performance.
You are an incredibly potent being, but you can stop yourself or slow yourself down. Your dynamic energy can get stuck in habit patterns that seem so real and permanent. They aren’t. You don’t have to live that way any more. You can expand your capacity to generate far more with your business than you are now.
This is not just pie in the sky talk. Jay Abraham, the master of business opimization, in the last 25 years has improved the bottom line of hundreds of companies. He’s taken dozens of businesses and increased their sales in 12 to 18 months by as much as 8 to 10 times by having them implement just one or two new strategies.
Of course the business owners had to be willing to generate and receive the changes necessary. A lot of times people are afraid or hesitant to make big changes and follow through effectively. How many people actually implement powerful new strategies? Usually 20% or less. Why is that? Fear, yes of course. But it’s also conscious and unconcious decisions and judgments that stagnate your life force. You can step out of that dead end swamp by using energy to work for you, not against you.
In this next teleclass we’ll be clearing the energetic habit patterns that don’t allow you to see and implement powerful strategies and get phenomenal results. You can improve your bottom line up to 2 or 3 times or more. This is not a promise of results. This is an invitation for you to seize opportunities with clearer vision and more dynamic action. The results you get are up to you. Are you ready to change your energy and change your bottom line?
During the teleclass you’ll be able to get your specific issues and energy blocks cleared that are holding you back.
You can sign up at http://aware-entrepreneur.com/bizteleclass/