Fix Sales Problems. What do you see as the biggest sales problems companies have today that they need to fix?
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Fix Sales Problems. What do you see as the biggest sales problems companies have today that they need to fix?
https://www.nosmokeandmirrors.com/fix-sales-problems/The biggest sales problem: introducing new customer needs that keep the necessary growth. With the economy being slow, and politics wanting to fix it with longer working hours, with national costs growing, and politics upping both taxes and fees, people have less money and time... Evolution or Extinction
Today is Charles Darwin's birthday. It has me thinking about his core idea of "survival of the fittest" and how the concept is frequently misused in business. Fittest does not mean strength. It means the most resilient and adaptable in a particular environment or ecosystem.... Introduction to who I am
My name is Paul Leverich. I’ve lived enough life to know that most people only show you the highlight reel. The clean parts. The filtered parts. The “I’ve got it all together” parts. That’s never been me.... Incorruptible Organizations AMA with Eric Ries. Wednesday 2/4 at 3:00 PM CT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNfb54LuzwII love how Eric keeps referencing mainstream examples like Vanguard and Novo Nordisk and Costco, so many organizational ideas blanket exclude big companies (often with the exception of Patagonia, lol) just because they're big.... Leave the country or stay? There was a time period where my friends and I were getting invited to these new exciting community projects in the Central America and Asia and Europe. Crypto millionaires and retired billionaires trying to bootstrap whole new civilizations and villages and large retreat centers.
Yet, all of us felt a certain affinity and even responsibility to stay in the States.
Which is a little strange considering probably all of our families also have immigrated here at some point.
How does one assess whether to establish a new home abroad and call it quits on the homeland? Or stick it out and try to make it work?
It reminds me of the dilemma that's often posed around do you try to reform an institute as a player within or do you go off and establish a brand new thing? Does staying in the current system doomed to be corrupted and compromised? Or is going off naive and doomed to failure as a retreat from life?
As I'm writing this, I could see the same dilemma in deciding whether to stay working for a corp or start your own business. Or stay in a currently challenging relationship or call it quits to find a new partner. Or even try to be a lay person in the world or go off to be a monk in the mountains.
I suppose the answer is ultimately context is what matters most.
And I've yet to see a really compelling abroad experiment that seemed actually integrated or likely to deliver on the promises.
I, myself, have been increasingly interested in building out more of the physical and social infrastructure locally to create the new type of village community in AVL. But, those billionaire communities or even rural Portugal tiny communities do tempt me at times.
interesting, took me until the 14m to understand the connection here. The non-profit can decide to end/"compost" the company and transform the whole thing to a time limited foundation. And also creating an ecology of orgs in connection with each other.... "You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”. Dennis Hightower, who at the time was head of Disney International.
https://www.nfx.com/post/9-habits-world-class-startupsHe asked me why I wasn’t doing something, and I responded by explaining the pros and cons of two different ways of doing it. Thoughtfully, he replied “You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”
The best Founders avoid over-analyzing. At a startup, you don’t have time — and the result will most likely be marginal. Pick a way and do it. Be consistently decisive.yes! I just shared this with the team, but I was delighted to hear a seemingly mainstream VC guy talk about this on a podcast. What I love about this is that he makes the case that Facebook's obsessive measuring of growth is (a) short term thinking and hurts their long term... "You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”. Dennis Hightower, who at the time was head of Disney International.
https://www.nfx.com/post/9-habits-world-class-startupsHe asked me why I wasn’t doing something, and I responded by explaining the pros and cons of two different ways of doing it. Thoughtfully, he replied “You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”
The best Founders avoid over-analyzing. At a startup, you don’t have time — and the result will most likely be marginal. Pick a way and do it. Be consistently decisive.More from that article: Speed is a formula for success because: Rapid product beats the competition Rapid results build team morale, leading to even more results Rapid results generate more interest (from the press, customers, prospective hires, etc.) Rapid results increase... "You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”
Dennis Hightower, who at the time was head of Disney International. He asked me why I wasn’t doing something, and I responded by explaining the pros and cons of two different ways of doing it. Thoughtfully, he replied “You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything.... Creative thinking vs winning an argument. Creative thinking needs to be taught and valued as highly as smart thinking, right thinking, and ethical thinking.
I wonder if we've been trained - consciously and unconsciously - to converse in formats that can be intimidating and arguable ... inviting responses that are judging, which can then be judged back and forth: smart or stupid, right or wrong, ethical or corrupt ... that binary thing we do. I propose that this creates anxiety and intimidates creative brainstorming, mutually respectful musing, generous listening, genuine questioning, seeking connection and curious questions?
I can be as guilty as the next person - fishing for affirmation by winning a point in conversation ...
#DeepTakes
I think I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. I just want to add that it's possible to frame creative thinking as the "explore" side of the explore/exploit dynamic. And by its nature, exploring is going to appear less worthwhile than exploiting by most metrics.... WeightWatchers
I feel sad about this: The body positivity movement, + ozempic (and other GLP-1 weight loss drugs) + the pandemic (WeightWatchers apparently was built on in-person support groups) meant that WeightWatchers went from $1.5 billion in revenue in 2018 to $770 million for this year.... The Relateful Company should embrace more job titles
We’re under-appreciating orange. We’ve included the green critiques, like the classic: "What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so" - V. F.... How can meta-awareness be trained? Any ideas? So I’m trying to purposefully train my meta-awareness. One thing that’s hard about it is I want to be seen as super meta-aware and so I hide how I’m not.
My current training method: Catching flies with fly paper.
I eat breakfast outside and the flies always come for the bowl and so I hung up four fly papers in a square and then put the bowl under it when I’m done. It’s really weird to watch them get caught and die. Some get away. One got away today and immediately landed on another strip.
I’m using this like a metaphor right now.
The flies are thoughts.
The paper is attachment.
To train meta-awareness I need to be aware (not pro or con) of the attachment-ability of my mind and its thoughts as well as the space in between where the bowl of food is placed.
I sit in an interaction and wait until I think four thoughts and then I
hold
them meaning I don’t think about them but I don’t push them away.I imagine that once I’m holding the four thoughts I have entered a nascent state, like I’m a baby consciousness and I tell myself there is a new action possible but that I maybe haven’t seen it so I both have to do something hard (baby grabbing cup) + something novel (Blas not acting out, Blas not just reporting feelings).
It’s really fucking hard. I kinda fall back on what I know if the stuckness lasts too long.
Anybody have tips about mistakes I could be making with this? Anybody else have ideas? Bonus points and trustability if it doesn’t sound like regurgitated Bhagavad Gita.
I’m really sure I’m meta-aware in some ways and really disidentified with how I got here, how to turn it up, etc.
Thank you for clarifying. Seems like (a big?) part of what your describing involves anticipating 2nd-order effects.