Before creating the breakthrough solution process (devising ways to accomplish 20 times more with the same time, money, resources, and effort), I noticed that most of the world's best solutions to important problems were put into use by a few people more than 400 years before broad adoption. Consider the mortar in Roman roads. Visit Italy and you see roads that are still in use after more than...
The purpose of this article is to jolt you out of your complacency, to make you to think clearly, and to get you to act more appropriately.
What if you landed barefoot on a hot tin roof and just stood there? The results wouldn't be pretty for your feet.
The same result happens when organizations become satisfied with doing what they've always done; they are burned on the hot tin roof of...
Everyone wants breakthroughs in performance, but few know how to find them. It all begins with goals. Most organizations have inappropriate ones that aren't tied to what the organization should be working on.
What kind of goals do most organizations have? If you sample what gets published, you'll mostly find goals related to meeting a financial budget. If that budget includes not...
To get your week's work done in 38 hours less, you'll need a breakthrough solution. But to find that breakthrough you'll need to begin by thinking differently about the opportunity. For instance, you now may not believe that your boss would pay you the same if you only worked two hours a week. Those who negotiate performance-based pay before making such time eliminations will find the change...
How do you get rid of 38 hours from your work week? The lesson is that you have to start practicing more time effective methods.
To get your week's work done in only two hours, you'll need a breakthrough solution. Let's look for one.
Combine Perspectives from Similar Ideal Practices
Think about times you've seen individuals perform near perfection on a regular basis. My favorite...
When you decide to learn about how to create and implement breakthrough solutions (ways of accomplishing 20 times as much with the same time and effort), you'll have opened up a magical doorway to exponential improvement. In the process, you'll come to understand how to make rapid progress by overcoming stalls (bad habits that encourage complacency) and developing new, more effective habits....
To exceed a moving target of top performance, you have to aim past where the target will be . . . not where the target is now. To accomplish 20 times more, you'll need to outdo others in the future. Seeing where the best will be performing in five years can give you a firm foundation for seeing how to go beyond that expected performance that will satisfy everyone else.
The steps for creating...
Drop something that breaks and most of us have the instinct to try to put the pieces back together. Sometimes that approach works such as when the raw materials can be remixed to create the same result.
When the pieces don't naturally recombine into the original form (such as when you drop eggs), you may only be able to make an omelet.
But anyone can make an omelet out of broken eggs...
Athletes know they must repeat their conditioning and training to achieve top performance. Musicians know that without practice their sound won't appeal to very many people.
Business people often do just the opposite: Running off in all directions to deal with short-term problems of little long-term consequence.
But discipline yourself to create and improve upon breakthrough solutions...
A doctor in Africa found a way to enable hospitals there to reduce costs so that they could handle many more patients. He was excited about the potential to introduce this method as widely as possible so that more lives could be saved and more people served.
But he was discouraged to realize that his current method for training hospital personnel would take eight more years to complete....
