1. Find The Obvious – Drucker looked for the obvious things in order to identify people’s greatest needs. It takes discipline to find them…and will lead to tremendous opportunities in your small business.
2. Help Employees Grow – Show the employees of your small business how to learn. In the knowledge economy we have today, Drucker believed continuous learning is the key for growth.
3. Teach – To become a better learner…teach. Drucker taught American history, Japanese art, religion and statistics during his career, because teaching requires learning new concepts, not just …

Improve yourself by going outside your comfort zone

Your comfort zone is exactly what it sounds like, places or situations where you feel comfortable in, while there is nothing wrong with comfort zones in order to expand our potential and succeed in life we sometimes have to move out of our comfort zone and into unfamiliar territory. Only by pushing ourselves to do something new or which we are afraid of can we develop and improve ourselves. The first step to take in venturing outside of your comfort zone is …

“There is always something that can be improved, as long as we think creatively.” To many, such a statement may be deemed as easier said than done. To many, try as we might, everything seem to be well in place, and there really do not seem to be any room for improvement.
With regards to this problem, a more appropriate question to ask ourselves, rather than “What else may I improve?” is “Am I getting ALL the results I hope for my team to achieve? If not, why not? Or specifically, …

At the point our body and our senses (eyes, ears, touch, etc.) meet the world lies a crossroads. At this very point we experience a constant, two-way flow from the…

Outside in-situations, actions and events in their environment
Inside out-how we feel, interpret, process these situations and decide on our response

Kevin Cashman talks about this intersection as it applies to leaders. On the one hand, a leader’s environment obviously affects what goes on in the leader’s mind and, in return, the leader’s …

Having been on the topic of taking care of our team for some time, let us now move on to our expectations of them. After all, as I often like to say, ‘Welfare is our obligation to our team, just as achieving standards is their duty to the larger organisation.’ As we commit ourselves to looking after the well being of our team members, we also do need to ensure that the team produces an appropriate standard of work, right?
In this four part series, we shall dwell deeper into the …