Don’t talk about it.

Don’t write about it.

Don’t dream about it.

If you want to be a leader…lead

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When you want to avoid blame, assign a project to a committee.

When you want to avoid responsibility, use a committee.

When you want to get things done…avoid committees

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The problem is when all of this research results in nothing being done.

Analysis by paralysis can be even worse than making the wrong decision because when you make the wrong decision, you are working toward the right decision (assuming you are learning). It’s when you keep making no decisions that you end up in trouble

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True leadership is about changing the future.

Sometimes we try to evaluate short term and lose focus on the long term.

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What if we occasionally reach and think big?

In the book “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies” they referred to it as a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal).

Sometimes if you reach for the stars, you might make it there or might settle for the moon.

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One way to look at is does the reward that comes from the pain exceed the pain?

If the reward exceeds the pain, it’s amazing how much pain you can withstand. It’s when the pain exceeds the reward that you have to stop and wonder why you are doing something.

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There is a problem with doing your own thing and it’s that if you are wrong, you will take the fall for your actions.

This isn’t a good or bad thing and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t occasionally do your own thing but it’s important to understand that there is a risk that goes with the potential reward and if better be willing to accept the consequences.

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Companies that are employee centric make sure their employees have the right tools and the right training to take care of their employees. Their employees are able to be more relaxed and deal with the customers situations better.

Companies that are employee centric are able to take care of their customers with well paid, well trained and well prepared customers. Everyone will typically have a good relationship.

Companies that are customer centric frequently don’t have happy customers or employees.

Just an observation.

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It’s easy to find one that seems perfect and focus all of your time and energy on that but then if something happens (maybe during your due diligence or simply they aren’t available when you need them) you end up back at square one.

This is why it’s so important to keep searching even when you find what might seem to be the perfect proposal so you can have true options available when something happens to your first option.

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The problem I encountered was the company is in an industry I know nothing about. I didn’t know the main players in the industry, the main vendors or any of the options. I sent a lot of emails, left a lot of voicemail messages, filled out a lot of forms and didn’t have much success getting responses. When I did speak with people, they had partial solutions but not everything needed.

After getting a bit frustrated I started asking anyone I could get a hold of for recommendations on who they would used for the solutions I was looking for. All of a sudden I started getting possible solutions. Rather than just giving me names of companies, people started making email introductions and instead of trying to get in touch with a salesperson, I had presidents of companies contacting me or having the right person contact me.

I went from having very few options to a number of very good options and each of them came from someone elses referral. It’s been amazing how helpful people have been and how much quicker things started going once I stopped thinking I was on my own and started asking for help and for referrals.

Once a final decision gets made, I will have to look at who made the referrals and find a way to make sure they are rewarded in some sense even though none asked for anything in return.

To me, this has been a great experience and one that hopefully I, and others, can learn from.

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