President
Obama
recently
said,
"Long
before
the
recession
hit,
hard
work
stopped
paying
off
for
too
many
people."
That
statement
applies
to
business
owners,
as
well,
although
not
in
the
context
the
President
intended.
Fact
is,
hard
work
alone never
"paid
off"
-
for
anyone.
Working hard is a virtue. It's a survival tactic. It's not a strategy. It's something you have to do when your business (or life) strategies aren't working.
A Chief Executive Boards International member once said, "The real measure of the value of your business is how much time you can spend away from it."
Think about it. If the route to improving your business by, say, 20% is working harder, what do you do if that "works"? How do you get the next 20% increase? Work even harder? Visualize 2 or 3 or 5 more iterations of that. Sooner or later you run out of gas. You're burned out and depressed, perhaps divorced or, worse yet, you're disabled by a stroke or heart attack. Working harder is not a strategy -- it's a downward spiral to an eventual unraveling of the company, created by yourself.
Here are 8 Alternatives to Working Harder -- ways and places to get some better strategies that reduce, rather than increase the amount of work you have to do.
Think about it.
Working hard is a virtue. It's a survival tactic. It's not a strategy. It's something you have to do when your business (or life) strategies aren't working.
A Chief Executive Boards International member once said, "The real measure of the value of your business is how much time you can spend away from it."
Think about it. If the route to improving your business by, say, 20% is working harder, what do you do if that "works"? How do you get the next 20% increase? Work even harder? Visualize 2 or 3 or 5 more iterations of that. Sooner or later you run out of gas. You're burned out and depressed, perhaps divorced or, worse yet, you're disabled by a stroke or heart attack. Working harder is not a strategy -- it's a downward spiral to an eventual unraveling of the company, created by yourself.
Here are 8 Alternatives to Working Harder -- ways and places to get some better strategies that reduce, rather than increase the amount of work you have to do.
Think about it.
