Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

Risk-taking

Gallup's 2021 Great Jobs survey revealed that in the United States only 9% of nonmanagerial employees strongly agreed that they are free to take risks to improve products and services or solutions.

Innovation

The pace at which any organization evolves is determined in large part by the number of experiments it runs. Innovate or die. 

Fear

"Fear does not prevent death, it prevents life."

            -Buddha

Decision Making

Never judge a decision purely by its result, especially when randomness and external factors play a role. 

Complacency

Complacency kills future success.

Employee Recognition

Recognize people for actions and results: completion of special projects, achievement of company goals, demonstrations of company values. Replace "Employee of the Month" with "Achievement of the Month."

Clarity

"The world is like muddy water. To see through it, we have to let things settle."  -Ryan Holiday, author

Grit

Intrinsic motivation launches you down the path of peak performance, proper goal setting helps define the path, and grit is what keeps you keeping on despite the odds and obstacles. 

Goals

Hard goals drive performance more effectively than easy goals. Specific hard goals produce a higher level of output than vaguely worded ones.

Seeing

Seeing something is not the same as noticing it.