By vanko on December 12, 2010
A teacher was upset because very few students in his country could receive the vocational education in electrical work, plumbing, and auto mechanics that would help improve the nation’s effectiveness in producing goods and services. While most would stop there, the teacher decided to do something about it.
He decided to design breakthrough methods that would [...]
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By vanko on November 9, 2010
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 [...]
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By vanko on November 5, 2010
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 [...]
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By vanko on June 29, 2010
What’s the essence of a good strategy?
Exploit opportunities that no one else is willing to consider.
You can use human nature to your advantage to accomplish this desirable result.
Our senses are finely tuned to react positively to what we like and to what we are accustomed. We reject anything that looks, smells, tastes, feels, [...]
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By vanko on June 2, 2010
Are you ready to run fast to make breakthrough improvements in the short and long runs?
Each day that passes cannot be recovered and put to another use. In that sense, we are all in a marathon race that lasts a lifetime to accomplish whatever we can.
On other days, it’s more like a sprint. [...]
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By vanko on April 21, 2010
Owls are wise. They hunt at night when few others can compete with them for food. During the day when all the other birds are busy competing with one another, owls enjoy a nice snooze. As a result, owls always eat well.
I want you to be wise in the same way [...]
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By vanko on April 17, 2010
What’s a leader for? Above all else, leaders help set an organization in the right pathway and direction to gain advantages versus competitors in serving customers.
Consider the significance of Bill Gates choosing to make his breakthrough in operating software for IBM personal computers. If he had worked on check balancing software [...]
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By vanko on February 13, 2010
For many years, no one believed that a human being could fly faster than the speed of sound. Yet lots of natural objects go at that speed all of the time. An optimist would have concluded that such acceleration was in mankind’s future.
But actual experience proved to be troubling: Aircraft began to vibrate [...]
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By vanko on February 9, 2010
A leader can do something that no one else can do: Set a higher standard that informs, energizes, and directs people toward the biggest breakthroughs they can make.
By comparison, most leaders settle for trying to do a little bit better than last year. That’s fine if you want to just try to [...]
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By vanko on August 9, 2009
To accomplish performance breakthroughs, you need to learn and continually use all eight steps of the performance breakthrough process in the correct order.
The steps are listed here:
1. Understand the importance of measuring performance.
2. Decide what to measure.
3. Identify the future best practice and measure it.
4. Implement beyond the future best practice.
5. Identify the ideal best [...]
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