What makes your business successful? What allows for peak organizational performance?

There are great thought leaders on systems thinking in leadership practice - Margerate Wheatley, Donella Meadows, and Peter Senge - to name just three.

Systems thinking is about recognizing the interrelationship of several elements that form a complex whole. So imagine your organization or business as several tiny pieces that make up a more complicated whole. What characteristics makes the business successful? What elements allow for peak performance?

Systems thinking states that small actions breed great results. The message here is about doing fewer of the right things for a high impact instead of more of the wrong things.

Here are three steps on how to discover simple actions to breed great results:

1. Be mindful of knee-jerk reactions

The next time you face a decision, take a step back. Take the time to assess the situation, even if you have seen this instance before. Try to identify the situation with a fresh perspective. Stop, and ask questions such as: What just happened? What is happening right now? Be in the moment to help you assess the magnitude of the issue you are faced with.

Many professionals and entrepreneurs get frustrated when they do not see instant results. What I found coaching these individuals is that in many cases they do not put in the consistency and time required to allow the result to surface.

For young driven managers being patient can sometimes be a challenge. After all you are driven, responsive, adaptive and very capable of implementing change – why can’t everyone else be? You must remember that you are ahead of game. Give people a chance to catch up with new visions or to get used to your new management style.

By: Joe Marcoux
Source: Just Did It Blog

The best, coolest and most innovative products in the world have no value until and unless someone figures out how to sell them.  Over the years I've seen the coolest innovations in exercise equipment. Some of the ideas I've seen are truly amazing.  The companies who develop these ideas are often in the dark on the process of selling.

The outcome is lost sales.