For those of you that know me well, you already know that one of my go-to resources for the best business ideas is John Spence’s blog. Now all of John’s blog posts (and books, and videos, and slide presentation, for that matter) provide highly relevant insightful advice that would consistently benefit anyone in business, but I just had to pass on his latest post. It’s one of the most densely packed, value-added ones I’ve read in a while and while it is directed at helping a business owner who is new to a geographic community, the blog would be equally relevant if you’re introducing new products or services locally, or if you’re trying to build a virtual community online. Take it away, John…
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“The right relationship between prayer and conduct is not that conduct is supremely important and prayer may help it, but that prayer is supremely important and conduct tests it.” - Archbishop Temple I frequently find that the best business wisdom isn’t. That’s because wisdom, regardless of where it originates, tends to have broad application. In that vein, I was struck a few years back by the insight in this quote by Archbishop Temple, which places the spirit and caliber of our earnest effort over the ends for which we strive. Shouldn’t we be thinking about business this way? “A man who never makes a mistake never makes anything.” - Herr Hunt, my third grade German teacher When I was in third grade, my teacher invited a guest instructor, Herr Hunt, to come in for a few weeks and teach us a bit about Germany and the German language. While I’ve forgotten most everything from that experience, save how to count to twenty in German, there was one comment made by our instructor which has never left me. Whenever Herr Hunt would see that we were afraid to answer a question, he would say, “A man who never makes a mistake never makes anything.” A friend recently forwarded me a post from Bud Caddell’s What Consumes Me blog entitled how to be happy in business – venn diagram. If you are in business and you are committed to BOTH your personal satisfaction and your business success (and why wouldn’t you be?) you owe it to yourself to take a look at this brief post. In it Bud shares a simple, but very insightful venn diagram that shows the overlaps between your business strengths (What We Do Well), satisfaction (What We Want To Do) and ability to earn (What We Can Be Paid To Do). From the diagram, we can infer that if you hit the trifecta (meet all three criteria) – Hooray! You’ve found the formula for business happiness – getting paid to do what you are both passionate about and excel at. If, instead, you are only firing on two of these cylinders, Bud provides succinct advice on how to increase your happiness. In a recent (Jun 19, 2009) interview with Fortune, Google CEO Eric Schmidt had this to say about coaching and everybody’s need for a coach: “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” - Henry David Thoreau After reading Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we realize that most challenges and opportunities can be viewed in terms of alignment. So, how can we take advantage of this realization? |
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