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Motivation Quotation

"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."

Greg Anderson

"Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another."

George Washington

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Franklin P. Adams

"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."

Bobby Knight

Insight That Will Help You Succeed

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Ideas in Motion, a success-based business newsletter. We will be delivering engaging, educational, and thought provoking articles and insight that relate to your business and what you can be doing to move it forward, farther, and faster. We’ll be covering the subjects we know you need to know about as well as the ones that you tell us you want to learn more about. We give candid advice, and in turn, we expect you to do the same for us.

What Do We Do

Simple Business Principles Built on a Candid Culture of Learning

I started Ideas in Motion based on the premise that there are very simple universal truths about business success. Through my experience as the CEO of FutureSource, guiding the company from some very difficult challenges to the $20 million market information and analysis firm it became, I learned about the kind of company culture that leads to innovation, intensity, accountability and results. I've also seen the dysfunction that keeps many companies from reaching their true potential. The most important thing I've learned from my own and other firms' experiences is how a humble and candid business approach, one that gives each team member, customer, and prospect a voice, establishes a system of constant growth and learning that will make any business prosper. This culture encourages everyone in the firm to take an active part in cultivating the success of the company. It creates a place where mistakes are embraced and quickly learned from; a place where the best new ideas are adopted and celebrated. It creates a place where people really give a crap about what happens with the success of the whole team.

Start With the No-Brainers

Lightbulb While that title might appear to be an idiot-proof, no-brainer itself, aggressively following that principle is not always the case in my company or in yours. Most of us spend too much time fighting fires and juggling what it takes just to keep our businesses running. In most businesses, owners and leaders do not take the time (or have the time) to actively identify what they are doing that verifiably works and has proven most effective for maintaining the business; more notably, the processes effective for growing consistently. We all need to identify more clearly the established people and/or processes that generate the best results from the resources you have invested, and do those a hell of a lot more. It’s plain and simple.

Recognizing what does not work is often the hardest principle to execute, because it requires the owner, manager, supervisor, or the whole damn team at the business to take an honest look at everything and own up to the practices, actions, attitudes, habits, and people that are just not working as they should to help grow the business. This requires leaders not only to be honest with themselves and their team about the areas they may be falling short in (either individually or collectively) but, more importantly, it forces them to take action now that opportunities to improve are out in the open. The payoff is huge when you take a negative habit and turn it into a positive one! You’re not slowing things down anymore—you are speeding them up! It changes momentum; one act at a time, the momentum builds. The best companies get to watch it happen all the time!

Focused on new ideas and actions, this principle usually holds the most promise for additional opportunity no matter the age, position, or size of the company. However, the principle is listed after Drop What Isn't Working Like a Bad Habit and What Works Right Now? Do Loads More of That! for one important reason: as a company, if you don’t get the first two steps right, all of the new initiatives you try to implement will not be built upon the strongest culture of candor and thirst for improvement. A culture forged by multiplying on your best practices and shooting your worst ones in the head. Taking a clear, objective view of the business is often the most difficult step, and the one that makes a leader most uncomfortable. Many new business ventures end up failing because somebody talked the owner or leader into spending more money on marketing, hiring more sales people, or developing a better website without really having a clue what is and is not working for the company already.

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