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Turn Over A Few More Rocks
TerryStarbucker had been thinking about looking under rocks for several weeks lately – I always worry about complacency, and it was a perfect analogy for me. Because there’s always a better way to do something – or a better way to analyze something – or present something. The minute we think we have it all figured out, all nailed down, and there’s nothing more left to change – that’s the EXACT time we need to think about mixing things up a little.
It’s about trying a new and different perspective – and realizing that you DON’T have all the answers.
Sometimes you need someone else to do the turning over for you. Getting a friend, or any objective third party, to tell you how you can do something better, takes a decent amount of courage, especially if you do not take to critique very well. We recently hired an outside firm at my company to take a look at some of our operations, and sure enough, they looked at some rocks we hadn’t looked under for several years – and found some things that we could change to make us better.
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Jaclyn Wells on November 30th, 2009 1:14 pm
That is a really helpful article for many business people i think. There are some really good points in there about needing to turn over a few new rock’s for answers as well as having others do the turning over for you. It often times helps to have an outsiders point of view, many times they can see what you cant because your too close to the situation at hand.
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