Now that businesses are re-opening in many places, here are twelve leverage points for professional and business success, which are currently used by my clients to accelerate their career, business or organization.
- Can you help struggling competitors by making a deal: Absorb their clients and provide your competitors a graceful exit?
- What has worked remarkably well, which shouldn’t have worked at all?
- What are the internal processes and systems that prevent existing and new clients from doing business with you?
- How can you make creativity, opportunity, and growth thinking part of the mindset of every individual in your company from now on?
- Who have been your best clients and how can you create more value for them?
- Who have been your best employees and how can you give them more important and interesting roles, responsibilities and objectives?
- Can you help your best clients reduce risk to accelerate their growth?
- What has the been the best use of your time and how can you organize your work to do more of this?
- What’s the courageous initiative you can take right now to fill a huge vacuum in the market?
- What’s the new benchmark for doing essential work much more quickly and how can you use this to set a new internal standard?
- All predictions of the future are wrong. Some are useful. Which ones?
- And finally: Who have been your trusted advisors who helped you to distinguish noise from signal and provided value when times were tough?