Adding the growth questions into the daily review was a change for the positive. It both gave me a closer look at myself more regularly and helped Diana Coman help me. I found the questions thorough enough for quality reflection, but not too burdensome. Though I missed my deadlines and let myself get into an unsustainable sleep schedule, I delivered the daily review all five days.
I got a proposal out to a client who has said he wants to start our training program this month and made progress on abstracting it to make the sales process more efficient. I also moved some other sales forward, but need to expand the breadth of the pipeline in the coming weeks.
I was gifted some insight from MP regarding keeping what people say in the proper perspective, i.e. let them talk and keep doing what you’re doing until you see them executing. I have had the tendency in the past to put too much value in what others say and count chickens before they’ve hatched. The deeper problem is that I’ve also let the talking but not delivering affect me as these pages well document a split between saying and doing. That split is being cured by being more aware through recording, reviewing, sharing, getting feedback and making adjustments.
I published the TMSR OS statement and received feedback on our approach to providing group classes.
I’m taking a closer look at how I set priorities and became more aware that I’m letting days bleed into each other rather than starting fresh each new day. If yesterday was a success, don’t rest on your laurels ((Perhaps season your soup with them.)) and if yesterday involved failure, collect yourself, reorient, communicate and be present with the fresh slate.
I’m struggling to find the exact Drucker quote I read this week, but it was about well managed businesses being quiet and boring while poorly managed businesses are frantic. A goal for the days and weeks ahead is to be consistently boring and effective rather than living a volatile schedule caused by poor planning and communication with frantic attempts at recovery. The goals and projects on my plate are exciting enough.
Glad to hear it. And it looks precisely on the right track indeed!
There is that indeed, as an overall perspective. But more specifically to the exact point made, the proper perspective for interpreting even talk depends on the context of that talk. So it’s not as much that no talk is to be listened to, but that any listening has to be aware of the conventions of that time+place+situation, at the very least. And this goes deeper really since it’s quite the same for any text you read as well, it’s not all everywhere just “one” text as it were, just like there isn’t just one single type of talk (regardless of using the same words so seemingly “the same” on the surface), it just can’t be.
Drucker isn’t of course the first to notice the obvious and he is infuriatingly just listing the observations to make a “recipe” but this aside, your struggle there is exactly the where and why digital won the fight and books are ~dead indeed. Here’s the quote you were looking for – it took all of 2 minutes for a search and copy paste from page 43:
Comment by Diana Coman — March 7, 2020 @ 8:17 pm
That’s a good distinction. The more context you have with someone, the more accurately you can evaluate their words.
I didn’t mean to imply that he was first, just linking what I’d been reading; thanks for the quote and some insight on your objection to him, I’ll keep it in mind as I continue.
Comment by Robinson Dorion — March 9, 2020 @ 3:42 pm