WHAT WE ARE –
We are an idea and a new entity developed around the long and enduring belief that “THE MORE PEOPLE I HELP TO SUCCEED – GREATER ARE THE SUCCESSES I CREATE FOR MYSELF”.
WHAT WE ARE NOT –
A system focused on how much money an individual can make.
WHAT WE BRING is HOPE - Helping Others Prosper Efficiently.
In our system, the development of the person (meaning) will supersede all else, and will directly result in the procurement of cash flowing to that person (means).
People chasing after money directly or indirectly is everywhere, we can’t seem to get away from it no matter which way we turn because we need money to survive in a civil society; but nowhere will you find an organization developed around a single purpose of building prosperity first (not wealth, not dollars, or money) through (not by developing - a big difference and outcome) developing the person financially, therefore placing each individual in the pathway of progress and eventual wealth building in the format we are currently developing. The person simply becomes a vessel for positive change to take place as opposed to being used to make someone else rich and leaving this individual behind. I KNOW THIS MAY SOUND CONFUSING BUT IT IS POSSIBLE IN OUR SYSTEM! I am simply taking underutilized assets, and resources (YOU, INC) and placing each in a position whereby each PERSON can become more productive based on each person's own merits instead of that of someone else’s plan.
THE QUESTION – THAT STARTED IT ALL:
The one question that I asked – The one question, which has become the reason for this vision and the reason leading me towards how I viewed an ever-changing landscape in businesses and industries.
That question – Why so many people have to seemingly fail for so few to succeed?
The answers to this question are varied and can lead to a great amount of debate and statistical analysis designed to create methods for people to follow, especially in the marketing and sales field to generate a specific outcome. By no means am I stating here that I have found the holy grail to the world’s financial crisis. But, what I am stating is that if given the chance, I do think our financial woes do have better outcomes available to us all then the ones we are receiving from the established elites. The innocuous question above, a question that at first had no ominous presence in my mind, started to linger in my subconscious self to the point that it literally consumed my every awakened moment.
To answer this question was fundamental to moving forward and establishing the foundation in which this vision came about. It is presented here to assist those who are part of and will become part of developing the values for the vision, and how our origin all got started.
From a single thought, an industry idea was born!
The quick and short answer to the question is this. Every economy in the world is a blueprint for the establishment of trade between governments and entities. Within every government and entity the rules for executing these trade patterns are different. Not one of these economies just happened by chance. Each economic system developed over the many years of its existence has its own significant origins behind it and why it continues to exist today. Change is slow because of traditions, and built up infrastructures, and no matter how much it hurts to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again in hope that a different result will appear, things stay the same!
Each economical system is a creation and composition of man's imagination over the many generations of trials and errors. That simply means man can change it, if the timing is right, if the will and readiness is there to do so. Change the way we involve ourselves in the activities resulting in our constant failures and a different outcome is inevitable. If this is not so, then the story of the universal abundance is a big lie. From where I stand today, the Universe is Abundantly clear.
FIVE COMPONENTS OF DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR THE " VISION:
1. VALUES
2. NOBLE CAUSE
3. OUTCOME
4. ASSETS
5. BEHAVIORS
VALUES:
Hence I will substitute The Team Vision for TV or TTV:
The following are thoughts and guidelines for helping to establish our values:
a) SOCIAL BUSINESS – “PERSON BEFORE PRODUCTS” – In TV the person literally becomes the product. The focus of the vision is that of a social business model and social entrepreneurs. I believe that mankind is put here (on the earth) for a reason. People have value and therefore we have placed the person first in our system, therefore making people our product. In order to accomplish TV’s mission & serve our associates well in this manner, we must be able to seek out, research and study any and all opportunities available in the marketplace (marketplace being economic, science, social, spiritual, history, ecological, educational, etc, etc, everything) that will continue establishing our growing cause and brand name.
b) TTV is to make no decisions affecting the bottom line solely on the grounds of how much money we will gain from that decision in isolation of its associates and the environment we all live in. Environmental consideration is to include but not limited to moral, social, legal, physical, ecological, and financial affects. The decision is to include the greater amount of goodwill overall.
c) Our values must not incorporate or suggest any activities, any wording or suggest in any manner, wording relating to one person having to lose in order for another to win. In other words we are to create a (you and me) world culture and not a, (you or me) world culture.
Example: In Most home-based businesses today (remnants of MLM’s of old) this is the case. Regardless of all the myriad of marketing formats used today to schedule, distribute material, market, and promote these businesses, and regardless of the positive messages used to keep the people motivated, the truth is that the only way to rise to the top is for many to fail and the only way to stay at the top is for many to continue failing. This is a harsh statement, but one that must be discussed openly. Even if the founders never intended this process to be the case, it has existed way too long for me to think that the current activities surrounding these companies are not deliberate. If they (company leaders) so readily give statistics of their successes, how can any thinking person believe that they are not aware of this phenomenon (leading to failed efforts of 95% of the participants) as well? Blaming that much failure on so many people just did not add up.
At this point the 80/20 rule is invoked! I am not rejecting the findings of the 80/20 rule, but what I am claiming from my findings is this; that is not the whole story and no matter what, you always have to look at the systems perpetuating some of the problems helping to create some of the affects of these findings.
This is a very cynical way of looking at an industry that has been around for many years but we cannot continue turning a blind eye to the results and not ask the question. The answers to the problems are not readily visible to the casual observer. Today, we are bearing witness to the “you or me world culture” resulting from these failures. All we have to do is look around us and take notice. We are giving far too much leverage to means and not enough energy is used in developing ways to create greater meaning in the marketplace. In our world today it is either one or the other but not both. This can all change, but we must develop the will to change it.
d) Our conversation and our written word must acknowledge the folly in the belief that everyone must be able to win or has the right to win. This simply is not the case for various reasons both relating to the person and event. This has never been the case and never will be the case, no matter how often the good-natured people amongst us shout out about the lack of fair play. The human experience cautions us from that thought, however our written values have to include room for wording indicating that everyone can be given the opportunity to win in the game of life or life’s process.
e) The decision for establishing our bottom line is to be preceded by the thought process that we want to develop a culture of CASH FLOW & CASH CARRY, and not how much money a person is able to procure, or indebtedness.
f) We are not a religious organization, but an organization designed to help, assist, and work with every man, and woman the world over who wants to grow financially by helping others first, and also by assisting those of little or no means who will need the basics in life just to get through the day, namely food, water, clothing, and housing. This is a complex system we are developing, carrying with it a great amount of responsibility to both the business and social communities.
g) Establishment of a re-educational, and retooling process has to become a large part of our growth in order for us to spread our system far and wide. In other words we are not an educational system, we are a re-educational and retooling system. Watch this video, if possible later watch all six parts – one hour.
NOBLE CAUSE:
Noble defined: Although there are other definitions for noble, for our purpose this definition is very suitable. “Having or showing qualities of high moral character, such as courage, generosity, and honor: a noble spirit”. Noble Cause in the case of the Vision is when that same individual, group, or organization has placed those qualities on display for a perceived cause greater then themselves. A cause such as MAD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), or starting a charity to help fight poverty around the world. The cause has to be for the greater good of everyone involved.
The key to all of our future successes in TV relating to our Noble Cause will be built upon the foundation of team building plus giving and receiving. Through an organized and fluid process of giving and receiving we can and will bring more people into prosperity and away from poverty then ever before.
Our Noble Cause is designed to prosper everyone who gets involved with the Vision. The simplicity and speed of our system (although complex in its design) is just the reason why we will request from our associates that they help us in creating one of the worlds largest charitable organizations designed to pool more resources towards those less fortunate at home and abroad.
Our unique system design has the greatest opportunities for prosperity for more people on a grander scale then any other system in the world today. The Team Vision will use these unique systems for the greater benefit of society therefore bringing greater prosperity to millions of people around the world who would have been left behind in this; the “”IA” or Information Age”.
The chances of poverty ever being eliminated permanently may never happy, howbeit the good revealed, the love obtained, and the joys celebrated throughout the world make the journey of a thousand miles seem as though it were just a walk in the park. We will work in stamping out poverty all around the world through our good deeds, and leave the details to the creator of all things. This is a notable cause that we desire to thrive for.
Build wealth thru prosperity! We gain wealth by helping others to prosper, that’s our way, that’s our credo.
OUTCOMES:
An outcome is different from a goal in one important way. Example: Runner Carl Lewis showed this when he used to say that he ran while others raced. He described the race as already won before it started, and he then sought to fully experience each step of his unfolding victory. This is an outcome. So, an outcome can be explained as a present state of success that morphs into an even bigger victory over time. The difference between an outcome and a goal is that a goal sounds like this “I hope we make it” or “it’ll be great when we turn this around” (setting a goal). An outcome sounds like this “we have already succeeded, and this is how it looks and feels at this point in the process” (succeeding now with an outcome).
ASSETS:
Anything The Team Vision has is an asset – including, equipment, technology, relationships, good will, brand, public awareness, struggles (to learn from), blunders (to grow from), reputation, culture, the first to introduce this new idea, time, life, love, hope, drive, last and certainly not least our associates. A classic blunder in identifying assets is considering only the physical assets but ignoring people themselves, people education, passions, and interpersonal networks and relationships.
CORE ASSETS, assets central to our outcome. Michael Dell “founder of Dell computers”, and Paul Zane Pilzer “author: Next Millionaires” gave me the first clues which helped me to focus on“COMMUNITY BUILDING”, which is one of our core assets. Not just any community building process but one that is designed to create positive financial results for its participants on a very large sustainable scale based on the current and future technologies. Two of our other core assets completing the Hedgehog process are, the actual systems our associates will be entering into creating the financial results or the ECONOMIC DRIVERS, and last a deliberate focus on the methods necessary in creating the environment for changing the financial bottom line of our associates, or PASSION to do so.
This completes the Hedgehog process, however, we have another great core asset, which will move the Vision into another specialized arena of operation. We have incorporated a process called MINING. Mining is the process of crossing over from one entity (having nothing in common with the next entity) - into a completely new and separate entity therefore connecting each together so we are able to extract the full power and full potential of the separate Entities, therefore creating the positive sort after outcome.
And finally, we arrive at voluntarism. Through our re-educational, retooling processes we want to establish the importance and power of giving back to society as we ourselves prosper individually. Not waiting until we arrive at prosperity and then wealth, but as we grow our prosperity and wealth; therefore establishing one important outcome, that is this, our associates will not be lead to feel guilty for becoming financially free because we have been givers from the very beginning. In our system financial freedom comes from our giving. Not just giving back from the gifts (cash flow) given to us but also giving of ourselves as well.
COMMON GROUND ASSETS, these assets answers the question, “how are we seen by those with whom we want to transact (the public)?” Lack of common ground has four predictable results and these are: being ignored by the market, boycotts, legislation and regulations created to hinder, or thwart our efforts, and lawsuits. The test is to ask others outside of our core group how they view our company.
Once we go public the image we want people to have of TV is that of hope, and answering the needs of the public. Like the automobile we drive around daily in, or the air lines we often travel in; we have but a vague idea how each one works but there is nothing in the world that is going to stop us from turning the key in that ignition to drive a car or boarding the plane to travel to and from. That is the first perception, the first image I want people to have of this organization, “I don’t know how it works but I want to drive this new model”, or “fly as high as I can in it”.
The second perception I want people to have of TV is that it works, and word of mouth is spreading it far and wide. I want the world’s entrepreneurs who will come up and compete against us to commit the definitive compliment, “duplicate what we do or even take it to the next level”. Yes, start an economic revolution of seismic proportion. We can only accomplish these very hairy tasks if we act boldly, with a spirit of unity. The outcome is already set; we just have to act on this destiny. This was going to happen anyway, we are just the first to make it so.
Three asset questions to consider:
1. Do we have enough assets to accomplish the outcome? It’s not smart to proceed as if things are going to turn out ok. If all limitations are not taken into account, eventual failure becomes likely. Deal with the brutal facts. Create an atmosphere where the facts can be heard: four basic practices – a) Lead with questions, not answers. Don’t pretend I or anyone else has all the answers because we don’t; b) Engage in dialogue and debate, not coercion; c) Conduct autopsies, without blame, in other words PDCA – Plan, Do, Check, Adjust; d) Build “red flag” mechanisms. This is not a cheap way for people to air out complaints. A red flag mechanism gives us a practical and useful tool for turning information into information that cannot be ignored and for creating a climate where the truth is heard.
2. Enough assets for behavior? What assets do we have that we have not identified yet? Is there a faster and cheaper way to get this done? We must take care of this question before moving on to the next question.
3. Will behaviors accomplish outcomes? Ask this question as if we are setting on the jury to judge the outcome.
BEHAVIORS:
*PDCA: PLAN – DO – CHECK – ADJUST! We must be relentless with this process. The best minds of the past have had to blunder before perfection became evident. So will it be with us. The more we examine ourselves and make the necessary adjustments, the faster we will overcome and grow. The more we work this process the faster we will rise to the top of the very industry we are working to create and the longer we will remain there. Never settle for “Plan and Do” alone, this is what ok companies do, and good companies do. We are thriving for excellence from the very beginning. We are thriving for greatness at the start.
Special end note: If Facebook, Youtub, Twitter, LinkedIn and others can make billions of dollars for their investors by providing a service but not a penny for the participants using their systems, what more will happen and how fast will the growth be for TV by creating a balanced system demonstrating the principles of giving therefore receiving in abundance.
Next Visit:Hedgehog Concept to continue with more of our building block process.
We are an idea and a new entity developed around the long and enduring belief that “THE MORE PEOPLE I HELP TO SUCCEED – GREATER ARE THE SUCCESSES I CREATE FOR MYSELF”.
WHAT WE ARE NOT –
A system focused on how much money an individual can make.
WHAT WE BRING is HOPE - Helping Others Prosper Efficiently.
In our system, the development of the person (meaning) will supersede all else, and will directly result in the procurement of cash flowing to that person (means).
People chasing after money directly or indirectly is everywhere, we can’t seem to get away from it no matter which way we turn because we need money to survive in a civil society; but nowhere will you find an organization developed around a single purpose of building prosperity first (not wealth, not dollars, or money) through (not by developing - a big difference and outcome) developing the person financially, therefore placing each individual in the pathway of progress and eventual wealth building in the format we are currently developing. The person simply becomes a vessel for positive change to take place as opposed to being used to make someone else rich and leaving this individual behind. I KNOW THIS MAY SOUND CONFUSING BUT IT IS POSSIBLE IN OUR SYSTEM! I am simply taking underutilized assets, and resources (YOU, INC) and placing each in a position whereby each PERSON can become more productive based on each person's own merits instead of that of someone else’s plan.
THE QUESTION – THAT STARTED IT ALL:
The one question that I asked – The one question, which has become the reason for this vision and the reason leading me towards how I viewed an ever-changing landscape in businesses and industries.
That question – Why so many people have to seemingly fail for so few to succeed?
The answers to this question are varied and can lead to a great amount of debate and statistical analysis designed to create methods for people to follow, especially in the marketing and sales field to generate a specific outcome. By no means am I stating here that I have found the holy grail to the world’s financial crisis. But, what I am stating is that if given the chance, I do think our financial woes do have better outcomes available to us all then the ones we are receiving from the established elites. The innocuous question above, a question that at first had no ominous presence in my mind, started to linger in my subconscious self to the point that it literally consumed my every awakened moment.
To answer this question was fundamental to moving forward and establishing the foundation in which this vision came about. It is presented here to assist those who are part of and will become part of developing the values for the vision, and how our origin all got started.
From a single thought, an industry idea was born!
The quick and short answer to the question is this. Every economy in the world is a blueprint for the establishment of trade between governments and entities. Within every government and entity the rules for executing these trade patterns are different. Not one of these economies just happened by chance. Each economic system developed over the many years of its existence has its own significant origins behind it and why it continues to exist today. Change is slow because of traditions, and built up infrastructures, and no matter how much it hurts to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again in hope that a different result will appear, things stay the same!
Each economical system is a creation and composition of man's imagination over the many generations of trials and errors. That simply means man can change it, if the timing is right, if the will and readiness is there to do so. Change the way we involve ourselves in the activities resulting in our constant failures and a different outcome is inevitable. If this is not so, then the story of the universal abundance is a big lie. From where I stand today, the Universe is Abundantly clear.
FIVE COMPONENTS OF DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR THE " VISION:
1. VALUES
2. NOBLE CAUSE
3. OUTCOME
4. ASSETS
5. BEHAVIORS
VALUES:
Hence I will substitute The Team Vision for TV or TTV:
The following are thoughts and guidelines for helping to establish our values:
a) SOCIAL BUSINESS – “PERSON BEFORE PRODUCTS” – In TV the person literally becomes the product. The focus of the vision is that of a social business model and social entrepreneurs. I believe that mankind is put here (on the earth) for a reason. People have value and therefore we have placed the person first in our system, therefore making people our product. In order to accomplish TV’s mission & serve our associates well in this manner, we must be able to seek out, research and study any and all opportunities available in the marketplace (marketplace being economic, science, social, spiritual, history, ecological, educational, etc, etc, everything) that will continue establishing our growing cause and brand name.
b) TTV is to make no decisions affecting the bottom line solely on the grounds of how much money we will gain from that decision in isolation of its associates and the environment we all live in. Environmental consideration is to include but not limited to moral, social, legal, physical, ecological, and financial affects. The decision is to include the greater amount of goodwill overall.
c) Our values must not incorporate or suggest any activities, any wording or suggest in any manner, wording relating to one person having to lose in order for another to win. In other words we are to create a (you and me) world culture and not a, (you or me) world culture.
Example: In Most home-based businesses today (remnants of MLM’s of old) this is the case. Regardless of all the myriad of marketing formats used today to schedule, distribute material, market, and promote these businesses, and regardless of the positive messages used to keep the people motivated, the truth is that the only way to rise to the top is for many to fail and the only way to stay at the top is for many to continue failing. This is a harsh statement, but one that must be discussed openly. Even if the founders never intended this process to be the case, it has existed way too long for me to think that the current activities surrounding these companies are not deliberate. If they (company leaders) so readily give statistics of their successes, how can any thinking person believe that they are not aware of this phenomenon (leading to failed efforts of 95% of the participants) as well? Blaming that much failure on so many people just did not add up.
At this point the 80/20 rule is invoked! I am not rejecting the findings of the 80/20 rule, but what I am claiming from my findings is this; that is not the whole story and no matter what, you always have to look at the systems perpetuating some of the problems helping to create some of the affects of these findings.
This is a very cynical way of looking at an industry that has been around for many years but we cannot continue turning a blind eye to the results and not ask the question. The answers to the problems are not readily visible to the casual observer. Today, we are bearing witness to the “you or me world culture” resulting from these failures. All we have to do is look around us and take notice. We are giving far too much leverage to means and not enough energy is used in developing ways to create greater meaning in the marketplace. In our world today it is either one or the other but not both. This can all change, but we must develop the will to change it.
d) Our conversation and our written word must acknowledge the folly in the belief that everyone must be able to win or has the right to win. This simply is not the case for various reasons both relating to the person and event. This has never been the case and never will be the case, no matter how often the good-natured people amongst us shout out about the lack of fair play. The human experience cautions us from that thought, however our written values have to include room for wording indicating that everyone can be given the opportunity to win in the game of life or life’s process.
e) The decision for establishing our bottom line is to be preceded by the thought process that we want to develop a culture of CASH FLOW & CASH CARRY, and not how much money a person is able to procure, or indebtedness.
f) We are not a religious organization, but an organization designed to help, assist, and work with every man, and woman the world over who wants to grow financially by helping others first, and also by assisting those of little or no means who will need the basics in life just to get through the day, namely food, water, clothing, and housing. This is a complex system we are developing, carrying with it a great amount of responsibility to both the business and social communities.
g) Establishment of a re-educational, and retooling process has to become a large part of our growth in order for us to spread our system far and wide. In other words we are not an educational system, we are a re-educational and retooling system. Watch this video, if possible later watch all six parts – one hour.
NOBLE CAUSE:
Noble defined: Although there are other definitions for noble, for our purpose this definition is very suitable. “Having or showing qualities of high moral character, such as courage, generosity, and honor: a noble spirit”. Noble Cause in the case of the Vision is when that same individual, group, or organization has placed those qualities on display for a perceived cause greater then themselves. A cause such as MAD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), or starting a charity to help fight poverty around the world. The cause has to be for the greater good of everyone involved.
The key to all of our future successes in TV relating to our Noble Cause will be built upon the foundation of team building plus giving and receiving. Through an organized and fluid process of giving and receiving we can and will bring more people into prosperity and away from poverty then ever before.
Our Noble Cause is designed to prosper everyone who gets involved with the Vision. The simplicity and speed of our system (although complex in its design) is just the reason why we will request from our associates that they help us in creating one of the worlds largest charitable organizations designed to pool more resources towards those less fortunate at home and abroad.
Our unique system design has the greatest opportunities for prosperity for more people on a grander scale then any other system in the world today. The Team Vision will use these unique systems for the greater benefit of society therefore bringing greater prosperity to millions of people around the world who would have been left behind in this; the “”IA” or Information Age”.
The chances of poverty ever being eliminated permanently may never happy, howbeit the good revealed, the love obtained, and the joys celebrated throughout the world make the journey of a thousand miles seem as though it were just a walk in the park. We will work in stamping out poverty all around the world through our good deeds, and leave the details to the creator of all things. This is a notable cause that we desire to thrive for.
Build wealth thru prosperity! We gain wealth by helping others to prosper, that’s our way, that’s our credo.
OUTCOMES:
An outcome is different from a goal in one important way. Example: Runner Carl Lewis showed this when he used to say that he ran while others raced. He described the race as already won before it started, and he then sought to fully experience each step of his unfolding victory. This is an outcome. So, an outcome can be explained as a present state of success that morphs into an even bigger victory over time. The difference between an outcome and a goal is that a goal sounds like this “I hope we make it” or “it’ll be great when we turn this around” (setting a goal). An outcome sounds like this “we have already succeeded, and this is how it looks and feels at this point in the process” (succeeding now with an outcome).
ASSETS:
Anything The Team Vision has is an asset – including, equipment, technology, relationships, good will, brand, public awareness, struggles (to learn from), blunders (to grow from), reputation, culture, the first to introduce this new idea, time, life, love, hope, drive, last and certainly not least our associates. A classic blunder in identifying assets is considering only the physical assets but ignoring people themselves, people education, passions, and interpersonal networks and relationships.
CORE ASSETS, assets central to our outcome. Michael Dell “founder of Dell computers”, and Paul Zane Pilzer “author: Next Millionaires” gave me the first clues which helped me to focus on“COMMUNITY BUILDING”, which is one of our core assets. Not just any community building process but one that is designed to create positive financial results for its participants on a very large sustainable scale based on the current and future technologies. Two of our other core assets completing the Hedgehog process are, the actual systems our associates will be entering into creating the financial results or the ECONOMIC DRIVERS, and last a deliberate focus on the methods necessary in creating the environment for changing the financial bottom line of our associates, or PASSION to do so.
This completes the Hedgehog process, however, we have another great core asset, which will move the Vision into another specialized arena of operation. We have incorporated a process called MINING. Mining is the process of crossing over from one entity (having nothing in common with the next entity) - into a completely new and separate entity therefore connecting each together so we are able to extract the full power and full potential of the separate Entities, therefore creating the positive sort after outcome.
And finally, we arrive at voluntarism. Through our re-educational, retooling processes we want to establish the importance and power of giving back to society as we ourselves prosper individually. Not waiting until we arrive at prosperity and then wealth, but as we grow our prosperity and wealth; therefore establishing one important outcome, that is this, our associates will not be lead to feel guilty for becoming financially free because we have been givers from the very beginning. In our system financial freedom comes from our giving. Not just giving back from the gifts (cash flow) given to us but also giving of ourselves as well.
COMMON GROUND ASSETS, these assets answers the question, “how are we seen by those with whom we want to transact (the public)?” Lack of common ground has four predictable results and these are: being ignored by the market, boycotts, legislation and regulations created to hinder, or thwart our efforts, and lawsuits. The test is to ask others outside of our core group how they view our company.
Once we go public the image we want people to have of TV is that of hope, and answering the needs of the public. Like the automobile we drive around daily in, or the air lines we often travel in; we have but a vague idea how each one works but there is nothing in the world that is going to stop us from turning the key in that ignition to drive a car or boarding the plane to travel to and from. That is the first perception, the first image I want people to have of this organization, “I don’t know how it works but I want to drive this new model”, or “fly as high as I can in it”.
The second perception I want people to have of TV is that it works, and word of mouth is spreading it far and wide. I want the world’s entrepreneurs who will come up and compete against us to commit the definitive compliment, “duplicate what we do or even take it to the next level”. Yes, start an economic revolution of seismic proportion. We can only accomplish these very hairy tasks if we act boldly, with a spirit of unity. The outcome is already set; we just have to act on this destiny. This was going to happen anyway, we are just the first to make it so.
Three asset questions to consider:
1. Do we have enough assets to accomplish the outcome? It’s not smart to proceed as if things are going to turn out ok. If all limitations are not taken into account, eventual failure becomes likely. Deal with the brutal facts. Create an atmosphere where the facts can be heard: four basic practices – a) Lead with questions, not answers. Don’t pretend I or anyone else has all the answers because we don’t; b) Engage in dialogue and debate, not coercion; c) Conduct autopsies, without blame, in other words PDCA – Plan, Do, Check, Adjust; d) Build “red flag” mechanisms. This is not a cheap way for people to air out complaints. A red flag mechanism gives us a practical and useful tool for turning information into information that cannot be ignored and for creating a climate where the truth is heard.
2. Enough assets for behavior? What assets do we have that we have not identified yet? Is there a faster and cheaper way to get this done? We must take care of this question before moving on to the next question.
3. Will behaviors accomplish outcomes? Ask this question as if we are setting on the jury to judge the outcome.
BEHAVIORS:
*PDCA: PLAN – DO – CHECK – ADJUST! We must be relentless with this process. The best minds of the past have had to blunder before perfection became evident. So will it be with us. The more we examine ourselves and make the necessary adjustments, the faster we will overcome and grow. The more we work this process the faster we will rise to the top of the very industry we are working to create and the longer we will remain there. Never settle for “Plan and Do” alone, this is what ok companies do, and good companies do. We are thriving for excellence from the very beginning. We are thriving for greatness at the start.
Special end note: If Facebook, Youtub, Twitter, LinkedIn and others can make billions of dollars for their investors by providing a service but not a penny for the participants using their systems, what more will happen and how fast will the growth be for TV by creating a balanced system demonstrating the principles of giving therefore receiving in abundance.
Next Visit:Hedgehog Concept to continue with more of our building block process.