The good reason for doing the hard stuff first

Florida Hospital Winter Garden
Yesterday, Florida Hospital Winter Garden under construction.

 

Florida Hospital Winter Garden
Try building something great without blueprints.

 

The good reason for doing the hard stuff first is that the easy stuff is always easier than the hard stuff.

Draw the blueprints first.

Sweat the foundation, the infrastructural, the design.

You can decide later whether the family room floor will be tile, wood or carpet.

It doesn’t matter if you are certain about your floor if the house never gets built.

The easy stuff should always come last when it comes to organizational architecture.

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Are we aware of our question’s focus?

Airport bookstore sign
Atlanta airport bookstore sign two days ago.

 

Are we aware of our question’s focus?

What do i need to know today is a good question.

But it doesn’t become a great question until we add a prioritized context.

Most of us skip this step because of the increased degree of difficulty in thinking through the bigger picture beyond today’s to-do list.

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Business trifecta at Authority Rainmaker

Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver
Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver, yesterday.

 

Business trifecta at Authority Rainmaker.

  1. Amazing speakers.
  2. Amazing event/venue.
  3. Amazing attendees.

It was the last one that was an aha moment though.

The crowd.

The other busy, ambitious people.

Those people.

They were beyond amazing.

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Pretty sure this ain’t emphasized in business school

Game Changer t-shirt

 

(photo: MBA = managing business administration… it gets real when it’s yours, not someone else’s.)

First rule of negotiation.

Be able and willing to walk away from every opportunity.

Not being able to walk away cripples your soul.

Pretty sure this ain’t emphasized in business school enough to be the first rule of negotiation. It’s covered, but not emphatically driven home.

It gets real when your MBA is your business administration, not a piece of paper and resume booster.

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