Decorating Your Rut Question
Quote: "I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut." - Tom Perrotta
Leadership - Page 6
Going back to our roots in E-Myth, we believe that leadership is a central piece of owning a business. Your leadership skills as a business owner will impact every area of your business. Over the years we often touch upon leadership in our Business Owner Insights and below is a collection of our leadership articles.
Safe and Comfortable Ruts
Last week we challenged you to identify a rut and to think about how it's decorated. This week we want to focus on the ruts that feel safe and comfortable. Examples of ruts that feel safe and comfortable might be:
How Do You Decorate Your Rut
A few weeks ago one of our business client's made the statement:
"They got into a rut and decorated it."
Those words quickly turned into a great conversation at our weekly business coach training. We acknowledged that we all have ruts and joked about how each of us might decorate our own ruts, and in that conversation realized the value of this conversation.
How Do You Know You Are Getting There?
"What gets measured gets managed." -exact source ironically not recorded
What is the point of measuring things in your business? What are things that should be measured? What about things that cannot be measured? What are your benchmarks for knowing your business is on track? Good questions. In fact, these are critical questions for your business, at least if you expect to meet your goals.
Goal Setting Question
Quote: "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." --William Arthur Ward
Question: Can you imagine a business that achieves all of the goals you set and does it consistently? Do you dream of a business that gives you the life you want and brings you satisfaction?
You Actually Can Get There From Here
Last week, we ended with a challenge to design an end-game scenario or story for the end of this year. In other words, how would you optimally describe your business on December 31, 2016 if you could have your most desired outcome? Today we begin with the end. That is the only productive way to start anything with a desired result. It is very hard to get there if you don't have any idea what it is. You cannot create a path to something you have not identified. Engaging your team in a set of goals is almost impossible without the ability to tell them where they are going.
Your Own Design
Here we go again. It is January and another new year. Time for those well-intentioned New Year's Resolutions most of us never seem to be able to keep. Do we lack so much discipline, or could it be our resolutions are just a wee bit unrealistic in the first place? Are we trying to bite off more than we can chew, or have we just now come to expect failure and disappointment when it comes to our "resolutions"?
Why Do You Own a Business?
Get Your Passion On!
For the month of December we are challenging you to remember why you own your small business.
We believe you should be connected to the passion, hope, dreams and desires you had when you became a business owner; to be inspired every day to achieve your vision! Take a few minutes to reflect and recall what you hoped to achieve through owning a small business.
Intentional Imbalance of the 3 E-Myth Personalities
Planning for Imbalance:
For most business owners/leaders, having an imbalance of Entrepreneur, Manager, and Technician is more the norm than having a perfect balance. Seasonal aspects of your business, employee vacations, and your personal plans can all be taken into consideration as you determine the balance of which of the three hats your business will need you to wear. Since we all know it's going to happen (the imbalance) we suggest you approach planning for imbalance in a rolling 90 day forecast based on your personal needs and anticipated business activity.
E-Myth Personalities
Quote: "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." ~ Carl Jung
Question: How do your business personalities react with each other to transform you and your business?
