{"id":534,"date":"2010-10-04T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T17:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/?p=534"},"modified":"2010-10-03T20:56:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T03:56:36","slug":"secret-to-building-a-stronger-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/2010\/10\/secret-to-building-a-stronger-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret to Building a Stronger Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just the title got our attention. BNET<\/a> posted an article with this title that made us want to pass along the key ideas.<\/p>\n

Ultimately success and effectiveness comes down to people, and more specifically: you. As chief executive, you impact every aspect of your business.\u00a0 Even when you delegate, your personality and decisions influence everything. It stands to reason that leaders who are psychologically in tune \u2014 meaning resilient, agile, and aware \u2014 are not only more effective, they also bring an unmatchable competitive advantage to their businesses.<\/p>\n

How can you make that happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many leaders \u2014 even those who run businesses with people-centric cultures \u2014 tend to prefer a straight-ahead, hit-the-ground-running, just-make-it-go approach to managing people. The alternative is an inside-out \u2014 rather than outside-in \u2014 view of managing people. When an employee makes a mistake or a bad decision, your first question should be \u201cWhy did he do that?\u201d not \u201cWhat can we do about it?\u201d If you want to motivate someone, you better understand first what motivates her.<\/p>\n

What to Do:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Strengthening your business by investing in \u201cpsychological capital,\u201d doesn\u2019t happen overnight. But here are two key pointers to get you started:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Understand that we all naturally assert the tendency to try to keep things the same, notwithstanding good intentions and recognized imperatives to make things different.<\/p>\n

First step:<\/strong> Identify the issue \u2014 say, become a better listener, feel more confident at board meetings, get your SVP to micro-manage less, understand why morale is low.<\/p>\n

Next:<\/strong> Start thinking about what the issue is made of, not how to change it<\/strong>.\u00a0 Talk about your ideas with a spouse or trusted colleague, confidante, or consultant.<\/p>\n

Remember, dismantling and reconfiguring entrenched systems requires time, thoughtful attention, and heavy lifting.<\/em><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Change isn\u2019t about finding easily opened doors. Whatever your desired outcome, what\u2019s most crucial to getting there is identifying and unraveling the tangle of ingredients, understanding how and why they got there, and then putting something new in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just the title got our attention. BNET posted an article with this title that made us want to pass along the key ideas. Ultimately success and effectiveness comes down to people, and more specifically: you. As chief executive, you impact every aspect of your business.\u00a0 Even when you delegate, your personality and decisions influence everything. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[54,62],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-innovation","tag-marketing-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}