Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
You always feel that you are taking more risk when you feel you have only one option available. People feel much safer to take risks when they know they have multiple options. Options give you the feeling that if you don’t progress fast enough in one way, that you can try another.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People who are great at influencing others have noticed that their power of influence increases “just by listening first”. We get others to think by what we say, but often it is how we listen that gets them to feel (and it’s the feeling that amplifies what people think).
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
The more ownership your people feel for what they are doing, the more creative they will be in doing things with better quality and even faster. Successful leaders use all types of methods to ensure their people are taking ownership, and continually reinforce that ownership to keep the feeling strong.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
Very often companies know they have an issue, but it just doesn’t hurt the performance enough to focus action to address it. It is only when the management gets the feeling that “we can’t put this off anymore”…meaning – something must be done. As with many things, we can intellectually get something, but not move on it until the feeling kicks in.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People have both needs and wants. With a need, there’s a feeling that I have to have it now. With a want, there’s more of a feeling that I wish to have it, and that having it might take some time. Successful sales people always focus on selling to the needs of others, as this is where the feeling of having it now is.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People who write well don’t focus on getting you to read the whole article, but on getting you to read the next sentence. They focus on making sure that they are keeping your interest by always creating the feeling inside you of wanting to know more. When you create the right feeling, others will always be wanting to read the next sentence.
The Obvious?
I remember so well the feeling of being stuck at work. Having the trappings of status as a line manager in a big organisation but feeling powerless. Being unable to change things. Knowing that the system doesn’t work but feeling that you have no power to improve it. Having to face people who also know that it doesn’t work and who hold you responsible. I see the feeling of frustration in the eyes of so many people I deal with in all sorts of organisations. Some have given up, and some are still fighting, but most have to just go along with things the way they are.
But do they? Are we really so powerless? I used to get very frustrated at many of the changes John Birt made during his time as Director General at the BBC. Like most people I went into victim mode and complained to anyone who would listen about how wrong things were. But I did little to offer alternatives. I didn’t commit to trying to change things. Then I remember one day realising that the only reason that the BBC had ended up the way John Birt thought it should was because he articulated it. He laid out what he wanted and persuaded enough people that it was the right thing to do. He had to start somewhere. He had to express an idea and keep expressing it until it came into being. There was nothing stopping me doing the same thing …
The Obvious?
I know there will be a lot written about Steve Jobs resigning over the next few days – way too much. But it would have been odd not to make a comment about this apparently minor event of a CEO resignation here on my blog.
I am sure PC users will be bewildered at the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will emerge from the Mac community – but then they never did really understand what we were so passionate about. It’s just a computer isn’t it? Well yes and no.
Job’s once said he was building ”a bicycle for the mind” and that is what has had such a huge impact on my life. I have always had this feeling of potential and possibility from my computing, that it was an enabler rather than an end in itself. Whether it is me writing my book, or my daughter editing amazing films, it is the joy of making something that Macs have, for me, been uniquely great at, that I dread losing.
I have always had a very strong sense that Jobs cared what my computing felt like. That there was passion built into the devices I have had so much pleasure using. This quote from him reveals the focus behind that feeling:
“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
I know he is not dead, and that Tim Cook will hopefully keep the huge ship that is now Apple on course, but I am not ashamed to admit shedding a tear this morning at the coming to an end of an era that has had had such a significant impact on my life.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People who become successful faster than others create the feeling of success by doing their preparation well. When you are prepared well, you boost your confidence to perform well "in the moment". It’s about creating the feeling of success that enables you to go make it happen.
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.
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