Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
The fastest way for leaders to lose credibility is to ask of their people what they are unwilling to do themselves. All successful leaders "GO FIRST", and role model what they expect of and ask of their people. Always do before say…
The Obvious?
What is the use of planning to be able to eat next week unless I can really enjoy the meals when they come ? If I am so busy planning how to eat next week that I cannot fully enjoy what I am eating now, I will be in the same predicament when next week’s meals become “now.”
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
– The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
When we meet others, they often remember more about how you made them feel, than what you had to say. The most effective communicators share more than just information, they convey a feeling. With that in mind, less information is often better, and using a story or example is what creates a feeling faster than just the facts.
Lee Glickstein, founder of Speaking Circles International and author of “Be Heard Now! End Your Fear of Public Speaking Forever” demonstrates and explains the secret of magnetism with groups.
The Obvious?
A tweet yesterday prompted me to remember sage advice from Dave Snowden which I took to heart in my work with social tools at the BBC. “You can’t manage knowledge but you can create a knowledge ecology”. I thought it might be useful to others to list the ten most important things I learned about doing this.
1, Have a variety of tools rather than a single system. Not everyone sees the world the same way or has the same needs so mixing up different tools with different strengths allows people to find one that works for them. Avoid single platforms like the plague.
2. Don’t have a clear idea where you are headed. The more fixed you are in your aspirations for your ecology the less likely you are to achieve them. Be prepared to go where people’s use of the tools takes you and enjoy the ride.
3. Follow the energy. Watch where the energy in the system is and try to copy the factors that generated it. Get others interested in why energy emerges and they will want some of it themselves.
4. Be strategically tactical. You can have an overall strategy of behaving in certain ways depending on how your ecology develops. It is possible to sell this as a strategy to those who need strategies.
5. Keep moving, stay in touch, and head for the high ground. Keep doing things, keep talking about what you are doing and why, and have a rough idea of where the high ground is.
6. Build networks of people who care. Don’t try to manage your ecology by committee but cultivate communication and trust between those who care that it works and have the commitment to do something about it – whoever they are and whatever their role.
7. Be obsessively interested. Notice everything that happens and consider why. Tell great stories about what you are observing.
8. Use the tools to manage the tools. Blog about what is going on with your corporate blogging, ask questions in your forum about security, tweet when something is changing in your ecology and ask people why it is interesting.
9. Laugh when things go wrong. If you are pushing limits and exploring new territory things will occasionally blow up in your face. Having a sense of humour and enjoyment of the absurd will help you stay sane.
10. Unleash Trojan Mice. Don’t do big things or spend loads of money. Set small, nimble things running and see where they head.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People who are more productive (i.e. really effective) than others have one key trait in common. Whatever they do, they focus 100% of themselves on what they are doing at that time. How often have you been doing something…with part of your mind somewhere else? More productivity comes with keeping ALL of your mind on what you are doing.
The Obvious?
I have had a couple of really interesting conversations recently with people in big corporations who are beginning to realise that social media isn’t the sort of thing you can just hand over to agencies. You have to get hands on and have real connections between real people.
As a compete naif in terms of the marketing “industry” it has always fascinated me the way you used to be able to delegate your whole connection with your customers to others. If you combine “hands free” marketing with the fact that the most direct contact companies have with customers is an outsourced call centre you begin to realise just how tenuous the connection between companies and the people they take money from is.
Hopefully this is slowly beginning to change.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
Sometimes when we encounter a difficult situation, we let our emotions get in the way of seeing a way through it. People who can put their emotions aside, often see the solution to their difficult situation sooner than others. When we sort of step away and see ourselves in it, we open our eyes to the solution.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
Many people focus on creating more discipline in themselves to constantly take action when they don’t feel like it (to create persistence). However, discipline is not something you create, but it is a byproduct of creating the desire and belief in what you want to achieve. Desire and belief then powers your discipline and action.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
There is one key trait in all risk takers…they are able to give up a known for an unknown. Too many people go through life accepting a known that they don’t like, simply because they fear an unknown more than the known they don’t like. Risk takers have confidence in their abilities to always turn the unknown into something better than today.
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