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Donald Mitchell's Articles Strategic Planning (5) Non Profit Organizations (1) Leadership (20) Start Up (1) Entrepreneurships (3) Communication (1) Business Opportunities (2) Career (10) Business (185) Writing (1) Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest "Where Are We Going, and How Do We Get There?" -- The Directionless Stall A fundamental problem that most organizations have when encountering irresistible forces is the resulting confusion that stems from a lack of a clear understanding of what the enterprise itself is pursuing. This article explores that problem. A Leader's Job One -- Set the Right Goals to Make Helpful Breakthroughs Few organizations have any goals to make breakthroughs. It's no wonder they don't. This article explains how to set the right breakthrough goals. A Masterful Student Publishes His Work and Gains Worldwide Influence It's not enough to know what you are doing: Someone must notice you before you can have influence. This paper describes how an experienced executive went back to school to create a book that launched him and his organization into worldwide prominence. A Physician Starts Life Mastery Through Earning an Online MBA Many people learn the advanced material before mastering the basics. How can they go back and fill in those practical gaps? This article describes how online education can help. A Teacher and Her Students Gain Practical Advantages After She Returns to Being a Student Teachers want to become more effective and motivated. This article describes how a teacher used earning an MBA to accomplish both objectives. A Technical Whiz Becomes a Business Leader Many technical people dream of moving into management. But the pathway isn't clear. This real-life example should provide lots of guidance for making such a shift. Achieve the Lowest Costs -- Simplify Simplification What's better than simplification? Simplification that takes less time and effort is the answer to that question. Act Fast When Customers and the Community Lose Faith in Your Offerings Helplessness is most dangerous when customers and others are concerned about whether they can trust you. Act Like Your Life Depends on Action, and You'll Beat the Competition In many business situations, taking action is better than identifying the ideal action. Figure out where immediate action is needed and take that action to gain a competitive advantage. Add Breakthrough Solution Cost-Reduction Capability Spread knowledge of how to achieve cost breakthroughs and you'll be amazed at how much better you do. Add Desirable Do-It-Yourself Features to Lower Costs and Add Customers Everyone has had the experience of being waited on by a ham-handed person who made things worse. At such moments, most people have yearned to do it themselves. Add More Value for Your Beneficiaries by Picking the Right Benefits Some people think that being an charitable enterprise means you just have to give things away. But it's much better to give away the right things. Otherwise, you won't be able to help as many people. Add Unique Capabilities with Outsourcing Most organizations are too small to attract and retain rare specialists. By outsourcing, such organizations can access such valuable skills. An Online MBA Helps a Copy Cat Entrepreneur Become an Educational Leader Entrepreneurs can improve their chances of success by mastering the key perspectives of good business management rather than just copying what others are doing. This article contains an example of how one entrepreneur pursued this lesson. Anticipate Where the State-of-the-Art Will Be If You Want to Reach Past That Level Many business people are locked into poor performance by aiming to meet standards that were obsolete years ago. They need to dig their heads out of the sand and look forward to where the best performance levels of today seem to be headed in the near future. With that perspective, they can begin to identify ways to improve beyond that future level of performance. Are You Best Suited by One Strategy or Two for Eliminating Obstacles to Exponential Growth Efficiency favors one strategy for expanding growth, but sometimes you get better results by following two complementary strategies. This article looks at how to decide which approach is better. Are You on the Yellow Brick Road to Success? Each organization can find an optimal route to success after considering how irresistible forces will affect its activities. Are You Ready to Adapt to Irresistible Forces? It's not enough to know about irresistible forces; you need to be prepared to adapt to them. Are Your Measurements Making You Look Bad? Most organizations have measurements they use to establish how well they are doing. Many of these measurements can be misleading when it comes to performing well for customers. This article explains better ways of measuring to get the optimal results. Ask the World to Compete to Find Breakthrough Methods Expecting your organization to find all of the breakthrough methods that you could use is unrealistic. Expand your search and you'll enjoy more breakthroughs. Ask Your Customers, Users, and Beneficiaries What's Needed and What's Unnecessary To make exponential cost reductions, you need to check first with those who will be most affected. Find out what they don't want or need . . . and eliminate those elements. Attract More Readers than Most Best Selling Authors Selling books is viewed by many authors as a way to make money, but if you want influence getting readers is a much better idea. This article explains how to reach hundreds of thousands of readers. Avoid Incorrect Methods of Identifying Outsourcing Choices Outsourcing can be very helpful if you pick the right areas to look and locate the best suppliers. Otherwise, you make things worse by spending time on outsourcing. Avoid the Wishful Thinking Stall If You Want to Enjoy Irresistible Growth Don't assume that you know what future conditions will be. You'll just make a fool out of yourself if you do and miss valuable growth opportunities. Banish that Helpless Feeling When Trends Turn Negative Helplessness is a state of mind, fueled by emotion. You can take practical steps to banish that feeling and move toward valuable solutions. Barriers to Reaching Ignorant Potential Customers Many business leaders just assume they can reach all of their potential customers effectively by taking out some advertising. But it's much harder than that to get the attention of potential customers. This article looks at the barriers to attention and suggests some questions that can lead to solutions. Be As Strategic As Bill Gates in Choosing Breakthrough Projects Leaders make a mistake when they let enthusiasm direct their breakthroughs. Pick the right strategic advantage instead and you can accomplish vastly more. This article describes how to take control over breakthrough project selection. Be Attracted to What Repels You to Make a Strategic Breakthrough Most of us avoid what smells bad, looks unattractive, and sounds awful. Because of that, untapped opportunities lurk where no one wants to go. Be Curious About Trends Before They Affect Your Company If you wait until trends are affecting you, you will miss most of the opportunities these trends bring. Look around before you are affected. Be Flexible with Selecting and Employing Resources Customers' needs and wants change. If you are flexible in serving those needs, you'll do better. Creating a process that flourishes with flexibility is a key ingredient in that success. Be More Available to Your Customers Many organizations schedule their hours to make life pleasant for employees. That can be costly if those hours make life unpleasant for customers. This article explains how to think about the hours you operate. Be Wise Like an Owl in Choosing Your Breakthrough Directions Many leaders set their targets for breakthroughs in the wrong areas. As a result, they miss the opportunity to make greater improvements from the same time, money, and effort. This article provides a plan for making better choices of breakthrough targets. Become a Practical Optimist to Seize the Best Opportunities from What's New Most people are justifiably skeptical of new activities that aren't fully developed yet. Those activities seem juvenile, not authentic, undesirable, and annoying. Yet with improvements, those activities can become the best thing going. How do you decide when that's going to be the case so you can cash in? This article describes a discipline you can use to find the best opportunities. Being a Copy Cat Can Pay Off Big When Partners Show the Way to Success Everyone wants to know the inside word about how to succeed. Check to see if a partner can deliver that word to you. Beware the Current Path to Profit Growth: It May Be the Most Expensive and Longest Leaders fall in love with their strategies. They like to blame execution for any setbacks. If irresistible forces are causing your problems, you need a different strategy. Blow Away Movable Barriers to Rapid Profit Growth The best ways to grow profits are often barred. The wise leader realizes that such barriers need to be removed. This article describes why this is an important perspective. Boxed In: Which Way Are We Going? Leaders can easily define paths for growth that actually restrict the potential to expand. Wise leaders will be more careful to avoid getting boxed in. Breakthroughs Are Available If You Hold the Right Contest to Get Help from Outside Your Organization Productivity breakthroughs that can save lives, make large gains in performance, and cut costs with the same time, effort, and resources in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Many people find it hard to locate such breakthroughs, but a new method of holding global contests seems to be solving that limitation. This article provides examples of such contests. Build Your Business Model to Expand the Market Faster Insights into cost reduction often come from market development. You also need to incorporate those insights into your business model in order to gain the most cost reduction. Cancel Delays that Harm Customers to Create More Profitable Growth Most businesses operate for their convenience, rather than for the convenience of the customer. This article explores the importance of changing that focus. Challenge Your Organization to Do More After You've Simplified As Much As You Think You Can People quickly run out of simplification ideas in looking for cost reductions. But when they return to the task afresh, they find many more opportunities. Check the Downside to Be Sure You Enjoy the Upside Most leaders forget to check out what can go wrong when they choose an action. This article looks at how to look at the unappreciated risks. Check Your Organization's Values Before Launching into Improvement This article describes a self-assessment you can use to determine if your organization is employing appropriate values necessary to succeed. Check Your Plan Before You Act Many business people have the habit of repeating what they've done before. Such a habit becomes harmful when the plan for creating results is the wrong one. This article looks at using measurements to focus on improvements instead. Combine Individual and Group Perfection to Make the Most Valuable Breakthroughs One person can only do so much. But groups often get in one another's way. This article shows how to use both individual excellence and organizational coordination to accomplish breakthroughs. Combine the Best of Today in New Ways to Outperform Competitors' Bests Tomorrow Chances are that your organization does not yet know how to find and select the improved practice elements that, when combined for the first time, will drive you well ahead of the competition. This article gives you shortcuts to identify future best practices. Confidently Prepare for the Best When You Feel Helpless When you feel overwhelmed, the best path for creating a solution is to assume you will succeed. This article helps you create that mental process. Connect the Dots Correctly to Succeed Many of us get into trouble by making assumptions that aren't even close to being true. From there, we spin fantasies of what might work . . . without taking the time to check out thinking. This article shows how you can focus on the right areas for improvements and progress. Consider All Your Costs Before Adding New Products and Services Sometimes you are better off not adding an offering because your costs go up faster than your profit contribution. This article shows how to avoid that problem and add highly profitable new offerings for your customers. Consider How Adverse Conditions Can Be a Blessing in Disguise Any surprise startles us, making us feel uneasy. But the surprise may be a great blessing after we relax and think about what we are actually facing. Correct Misperceptions That Drive Away Potential Customers and Beneficiaries Most people misunderstand what you do and what the benefits are. This article explains how those misperceptions occur and how to overcome them. Create a Bias for Eliminating the Unnecessary Everyone sees wasteful activities. Most organizations make it unclear how to get rid of those wasteful actions. By changing that circumstance to encouraging everyone to eliminate the wasteful, great cost reductions will follow. Create a One-Step Solution for Purchasing Your Offering Make buying what you offer simple, and many more people will buy. This article explores lessons for leaders and managers. Create Full Flavored Effectiveness by Seasoning Improvements with Complementary Instincts Many businesspeople try to explore improvements too narrowly. That's like always seasoning your food with salt only . . . it's not good for your blood pressure and the taste gets boring. Create More Profitable Business Models by Determining the Needs of Beneficiaries, Customers, Most business models deliver the wrong benefits. Correct that misperception, and you will can have a strong foundation for a more profitable business model. Customize to Simplify, Reduce Costs, and Be More Effective: Turn Ruby Slippers into Traveling Shoes Most people think of custom offerings as being more expensive to make and deliver. Today, the opposite is usually true. As a result, you can be more satisfying to customers while also reducing costs. Danger: Your Beliefs Are Destroying Your Best Opportunities Why don't more people make breakthroughs? It's because they believe that breakthroughs aren't possible. This article explains how to get past that purely mental roadblock. Defending Failed Directions Can Direct You Away from Profitable Progress Some become frozen into following failed policies because they don't want to admit they made a mistake. That pride can be costly when it leads to harmful inaction. Delay Is Almost Always Costly: Act Now to Profit More! Procrastinators falsely believe that delay is seldom a disadvantage. The opposite is true . . . you often die by inches because of delays. This article looks at how to be rational about deciding when immediate action makes more sense than further study, thought, and delay. Design Your Offering to Be Friendlier to Do-It-Yourselfers Doing things for yourself can be fun . . . or it can be threatening. Those who want to reduce costs should focus on providing the fun. Develop Defensiveness Extinguishers to Find More Great Profit Opportunities When surprised, most of us get defensive. We don't learn from that surprise until we stop being defensive. This article describes ways to overcome defensiveness faster and more effectively. Disbelief Is Leading Your Potential Customers Astray Many organizations suffer from inadequate marketing; marketing that leaves potential customers with disbelief about the organizations' offerings will do. This article looks at how to identify harmful disbelief that marketing should dispel. Do Twice the Work and Enjoy 20 Times the Results Breakthroughs are wonderful, but breakthroughs that multiply their benefits can improve profits by 400 times. This article explains how to achieve that wonderful result. Do Your Unconscious Habits Help or Hurt Your Profitability? It's what we don't think about that often causes the most problems. This article looks at how organizations of all kinds and sizes can check themselves to find where bad habits need to be replaced with better ones. Doing Things the Way They've Always Been Done Is Costly -- If It Isn't Broken, Improve It Anyway! Everything we do can be improved. But following a company or family tradition can keep us from considering how matters can be enhanced. Question those traditions to get the best results. This article provides directions for how to shed those outmoded traditions. Don't Be Defensive about Your Mistakes, Profit from Them Setbacks are usually opportunities in disguise. Be sure you get over your defensiveness to look into what happened. Don't Become Obsolete -- Do That to the Competition This article explains how you can install a management process to avoid obsolescence while threatening your competitors with becoming irrelevant to customers. Don't Let Misperceptions Guide Your Entrepreneurial Decisions Entrepreneurs often take up the wrong opportunities because they misperceive the potential. This article explains how to avoid that problem. Don't Try to Put Humpty Dumpty Together -- Assemble Instead a Gorgeous Patchwork Quilt of Practices Many business people try to push a way of operating past where it can be successful, such as by running an assembly line too fast or with too few people. In this article, we look at changing the very concept of how to combine effective practices to create one well beyond what others have accomplished before. Education Creates Attractive Choices: From Climbing the Career Ladder to Planning for a New Career Many people seek an advanced degree, such as an MBA, to accelerate career progress by adding credentials and valuable new knowledge for their current work. That education can turn out to have added benefits for the mid-career person by opening up doors to a better career in a new field. This article looks at how Carlos Laya found a new career field through his MBA studies. Eliminate Capital Drains with Outsourcing Use less capital and you can grow faster. Outsourcers often supply capital in serving you that you would need to add for yourself. Eliminate Mistakes and Delays and See What Else You Can Eliminate Speeding up action often reveals opportunities to save money. Embed Your Essential Profit-Expanding Messages into Your Offerings Choose a new profit-expanding direction, and most people either won't get the word or will be confused. Trying in your messages about profit expansion into your offerings, and you'll do a lot better in profit growth. Encourage Your Staff to Find Do-It-Yourself Improvements over Outsourcing Let your people see what improvements they can come up with before you outsource. They will often see better choices. Enjoying Exponential Cost Reductions Can Be as Easy as Learning a New Language This article provides a description of how exponential cost reductions can be accomplished through business model innovation. Escaping from Evening Television Watching Brings a Businessman Many Rewards Businessman Bill Kempen felt like he was wasting his time watching television. He stopped television watching and started earning an online MBA with the time he freed up. The result was to improve his business, his retirement income, and his quality of life. Establish New Brands That Have Emerging Market Authenticity Consumer products companies have a massive opportunity to explore emerging markets as the source for authenticity that fascinates consumers. This article explores this opportunity. Estimate the Profit Consequences of Adding More Benefits to Grow More Rapidly You could lower prices, add more features, improve the packaging, provide promotions, or increase marketing. Which direction will bring the biggest increase in profitable sales? Add benefits customers want that cost you little. Even Those with Enormous Stakes at Risk Can Mistake Future Trends Don't believe that you can foresee future conditions and what they spell for the right strategy. Instead, assume that you need a strategy that will work well regardless of the conditions. Examine How New Processes Can Eliminate Expensive Outsourcing A simpler or revised process may allow you to stop outsourcing that isn't worth the cost. Expand Breakthrough Solution Capacity Among Your Stakeholders The people outside of your organization can make bigger cost reductions for you than your organization can. How can you gain more cost-reduction help from outside your organization? Expand Your Focus to Locate Previously Unperceived Targets for Cost Reductions Just when you think you've found all of the best ways to reduce costs, think again. You've missed most of them! Experience Your Own Process and Challenge Those Who Operate It to Improve and Reduce Costs It's easy to become complacent about the way you serve customers and other stakeholders. But put yourself in their shoes and you'll quickly see what needs to be improved. Challenge your colleagues then to improve performance and reduce costs. Extract the Annoyance and Add Enjoyment to Delight Customers and Gain More Profit As important as simplification is, sometimes steps cannot be avoided. But required steps can be made more palatable as part of an improved, more profitable business model. Find Dangerous Profit-Spilling Icebergs Before You Ram Them Trial and error management means hitting obstacles, repairing the damage, and starting off in a new direction. With the right warning, you can skip hitting the obstacles and head straight for the prize of greater profits. This article suggests a method for improving over trial and error management. Find High-Speed Roads to Growth at Low Cost A rich organization can afford millions to find rapid growth paths. A small organization may only be able to spend a few hundred dollars for the same purpose. This article shows how both large and small businesses would benefit from taking the low-cost path. Find Out Why Most People Don't Buy or Use Your Offerings Many leaders are blissfully unaware that most potential customers and beneficiaries of their offerings wouldn't employ those offerings even if paid to do so. How can they hope to grow their organizations without dealing with those issues? This article argues finding out why you are being rejected is essential to achieving rapid growth. Focus on Why Customers Want Your Offering and How You Provide It Many business leaders think about what they offer in terms of how they use the offering, rather than how customers do. That's an expensive mistake in many cases. This article describes a better approach. Follow the Rainbow Path to the Pot of Gold Delivered by Rapid Growth Small businesses cannot use the same methods that giants do to increase growth. This article looks at what can be done by small businesses to locate better growth paths. Follow the Rules of the Road for Helpful Do-It-Yourself Owners' Manuals Owners' manuals are often written to please defense lawyers rather than to help customers. Shift that focus and you'll slash more costs, including legal defense fees. For a More Profitable Business Model Add Complementary Partners for Achieving a Perfect Result Try to do everything that customers, users, and beneficiaries need and you'll have costs that are too high and you'll also make more mistakes than are necessary. Instead, seek partners who can improve performance and reduce costs. For a More Profitable Business Model Focus on Those You Can Serve Well While Using Few Resources Rather than try to serve everyone, it works better and is more profitable to emphasize those who you can serve the most effectively with the least resources. For Best Results Repeat Cost-Reduction Steps It's easy to overlook cost-reduction opportunities. By repeating your cost-reduction reviews, you'll find opportunities you missed in the past. For More Profit, Shovel Away the Sand Over Those Whose Heads Are Buried in It Be earnest in seeking out problems rather than denying them. The damage will be limited when you do. For Smoother Operations, Reduce the Number of People Involved From small to large organizations, matters slow down because people are needlessly involved. In small companies, the owners may stick their noses into everyone's activities. In larger companies, the checkers may be checking on the checkers. This article describes how to simplify operations for better, more profitable results. Form Alliances with Matchmakers to Gain Even More Profitable Alliances Your choices of allies and partners determine the ease by which you will add other allies and partners. These choices will either open doors to profitable opportunities or close those doors. Get More Value from Your Values . . . By Walking Good Talk It's one thing to proclaim your values. It's far more valuable to follow those values. Get Ready to Expand Your Number of Customers by 21 Times Most people aim at adding 2-3 percent more customers a year. Why not gain 2100 percent more? This article explains how. Go from Seeing an Opportunity to Becoming a Breakthrough Leader Low-profile change often works better than high-profile change, but it's had to persuade CEOs of that. In this article, I explain what leaders must do to achieve breakthroughs. Go from Thought Experiments to Testing Strategies for Exponential Growth Most strategies cannot be implemented. By starting with thought experiments, you can improve the odds but tests are still needed to confirm the validity of a strategy. [1] [2] [3]	I support SEOcontest2008 Submit Articles Member Login Top Authors Most Popular Articles Submission Guidelines Ezine Notifications Article RSS Feeds New Stuff About Us Site Blog Forum Link to Us Contact Us Privacy Policy Terms of Service Article Submission Service Free Online Games hong kong 7's tickets Canadian Domains Construction Equipment Trucks For Sale Critical Illness Insurance Over 50 Life Insurance Dating Online Florist Coupons Englishharbourcasino

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