Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Companies have people working on strategies all the time, but strategies are not born until they are executed. People often say that “this was a good strategy, but poorly executed”. That’s not really true, as a strategy can only be good if it takes into account what is required to execute it well.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Companies have people working on strategies all the time, but strategies are not born until they are executed. People often say that “this was a good strategy, but poorly executed”. That’s not really true, as a strategy can only be good if it takes into account what is required to execute it well.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

If we take a look at many of the difficult situations we found ourselves in…we can see that we often thought ourselves right into the trouble we encountered. That being so, we could have just thought the opposite and avoided it entirely. Remember, thoughts drive behaviours.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

If we take a look at many of the difficult situations we found ourselves in…we can see that we often thought ourselves right into the trouble we encountered. That being so, we could have just thought the opposite and avoided it entirely. Remember, thoughts drive behaviours.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Everyone likes to create the big win. However, there are many people who created their success by building small wins into a powerful competitive advantage. What appears like “overnight success” to some…is really that additional small win that really made the difference.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

People are looking for a better balance in their lives, and often have an unrealistic expectations that every week will be a balanced one (between work, family & personal time). However, balance has a timeframe, and there are times when some weeks will lean heavily on one or the other. Balance is more of over a month…than over a week.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

There are two parts to delivering great service…1) the level of service we provide, and 2) the expectations of the service. Too many companies are focused on improving the service without listening enough to what their customers expect. Not all expectations have the same impact, and often there are opportunities to deliver high impact expectations with just a little effort.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Most problems we face seem to grow larger the more we avoid taking action on them. In almost every situation, it is some type of action that helps us to create a way through it (and also to our advantage). People are great at thinking about their problems (and maybe do it all the time), but the successful take action and create a way through them.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

You hear a great deal about the importance of self awareness, and rightly so. When we are aware of our behaviours and what drives them, we are then able to better control them…especially in difficult circumstances. Successful people invest in their self awareness…do you?

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

One of the best ways to develop your people is to give them feedback on their performance. Too many managers wait until appraisal time to do this, and then it comes across as negative input versus input to improve. Successful leaders are constantly providing feedback…with their people growing faster and achieving more too.

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