The biggest challenge in a business. Yourself!

2008 November 11 2008

In several examples, such as Kodak or other large corporations that go bankrupt or lose a lot of ground in your business, we often conclude that the problem is that they were not ready, they could not or would not see the change. Now I asked myself if I am ready as an organization to make all changes necessary for success, because as a human being willing to change aspects not being carried me down the road than I expected or understood as successful?

This is a shot a little post of my friend William Moralez called "My only venture: My Life" added to that seen in classes CETEAN about companies that did not have the vision necessary to make the necessary changes or worse, those they could make the change but did not, perhaps not prosper or ruin your present (currently being leader, but with great intrigue that position will be occupied in the future) or many times for not having "eggs "necessary to do and stay in your comfort zone.

I think Juan Carlos , once told of Tiger Woods (not the detail, but very general history), where it really proved to be the number one, not only to have the aptitude for the sport, but to have a mind capable of producing the necessary changes and have the 2 golf balls to take it and implement it.

The fact is that Tiger in a moment of his career, and being the undisputed number 1, note that the mode of play that had at that time, gave him a pain in the future it would definitely sidelined, rather than mostly a matter of attitude, fundamental to any golfer. Woods realized that the solution to this problem was to grab your instrument playing in a completely different, compared to us can be like trying to learn to write with your other hand. The thing that did change the golfer, terribly low level, and diambulo for a long time out of number one which had already demonstrated the necessary skills. The point is that as we all know, today is number 1 again Tiger and has already passed quite what happened.

In my particular case, many times I saw skills and attitudes of their own, they were not the best for what I was intending to do, by the fact that "good all these things that are on the surface I can change, but my way of being no "(?), or" I can improve, but not change my nature, "(??). Today I realized that to be committed to a vision, you must first engage with oneself and with the possibility of change, to things that today we can bring happiness, let alone those we know are wrong, but still doing.

The question is am I willing to make a change that may not want to accept, I do not want to see, to alter my "comfort" today? SI. Do I even need to be left-handed!

! That if Boca fan ever! lol ;)



The area

2008 September 16 2008

In a very good blog about personal productivity called the basket , I found the following post which talks about "the zone ". The same concerns when we get to be in those moments where conseguis absolute concentration on what you're doing, with the consequence of losing track of time completely.

In the post to give some tips on things to do to stay long in the area. Like being on a subject I know, but where there is always something to learn, you must also be challenging, we should encourage us to do and have a fast reaction (The times I remember being in the area when I was in charge of making the windows of technology, Pasban hours and hours, lost sales, but I was excited very much and kept me with full attention to what he was doing, the quick response I had was every two minutes to see if it was running or not)

As entrepreneurs (not necessarily people who have your business, but people with attitudes to change things), but it is important to leave the comfort zone , the most important thing that our entrepreneurial activity in the area. When we talk about the passion we must do things, focus, energy and other attributes, we refer to many of the things we found in this area.

Another important fact to know that you can, think that there is the possibility of achieving my goal more difficult it may seem. The way to accomplish something impossible or not known, first thinking it is possible and there, after checking which way to take us to our destination and so work in our step by step, fully focused.

Something very important is to get away from bad areas, like the criticism. It is a normal attitude, which inadvertently fall by the people around us. Where no real reason everything is wrong, everyone is complaining and complaining transmits culture. Ex: There's this underground that is filled! If it is a crap, they have to fix it! Because he's always bad! It travels like cows! Where perhaps it is 6 pm and a subway is coming less than 3 minutes each, for 90 cents! Another example is in the more traditional works: This work is a m ...., Underpaid, are a lot of hours, they ask you anything, in such other place x charge more. But no one says how to improve things, or do something to improve it, only complain as martyrs, on top of you where you work x who charges more, but installed another critical area where charge more but have more problems and head does not value what they do ( you told pumpkin? ). L or important is to make an important and significant act to cut it, but if you do not succeed ANDAT!, Because most do not want it going to affect you.

In closing I want to take this phrase from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi "What's interesting is that people who were doing something active and concentrated felt happier than people who watch TV without thinking."