Leading on from the mentor article I’ve thought about where all the knowledge comes from and why it is passed on. People acquire it via experiences, collecting relevant information to their business needs, books, events, training, teaching and then decide who and how they will disseminate their knowledge. Sometimes it’s just in small nuggets of information or opinions or thoughts they think relevant to the receiver. “Come Grasshopper, grab the marble” comes to mind for those of us who remember the 70s.
So here goes –
* Get the right people in the room and great things can happen.
* You can’t continue to motivate people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. Passion is the best motivator.
* Too much choice can paralyse.
* Avoid regret, if only. People don’t act because they fear they will regret their actions. At the end, people only regret things they didn’t do.
* Relationships are simple. Not easy.
* You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretsky.
* There will be more clutter in our lives, due to the net, not less.
* People don’t buy a watch to tell the time.
* You could do Richards Branson’s job most of the time, just not the 10 minutes a day where he creates.
* Choose your employees, choose your future. If you replace just 15% of your employees a year, in 6 years you’ve replaced the entire company.
* Don’t overlook self interest. It’s always about them.
* Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.
* Middlemen rule. Most successful sites are middlemen. YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google, LinkeIn.
* Listening is the ultimate core competence.
* A year from now you may wish you had started today.
* You have only one source of excellence, you.
* Frozen pizza was invented by Ron Smrek of the Tombstone Tap bar 40 years ago. It was eventually bought by Kraft and recently sold to Nestle, still under the name Tombstone Pizza. Yeah yeah, I can hear you now, why do you keep this information in your head?
Pass it on.
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