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

Short Term Thinking

When you're thinking solely in the short term, you blind yourself to both threats and longer-term opportunities.

High-Performance

High-performance teams have to stay vigilant.  Are your leaders seizing new opportunities or just trying to optimize an outdated strategy?  

Connecting The Dots

"You can't connect the dots looking forward.  You can only connect them looking backwards."  -Steve Jobs

Authentic

It is so much less work just to be yourself. 

Core Values

Speed and flexibility should be core values for every company in today's fast-paced, constantly evolving world.

Reorganizing

The cost of reorganizing a company is nothing compared to the growth potential it unleashes. 

Winners

Famed football coach Vince Lombardi said, "Winners never quit."  Marketing guru Seth Godin countered with, "Winners quit all the time.  They just quit the right stuff at the right time."

Differentiation

In a world of forces that push toward the commoditization of everything, creating something new and different is the only way to survive. 

Assumptions

Ask yourself if your assumptions about you, your work, and your organization are still valid, given constant changes. 

Gandhi

Gandhi said, "I will not let anyone walk through my mind with dirty feet."  And neither should you!