Business Control

This third-in-the-series post is the last of the initial mind-set sequence.  It’s important because it sums up the systems mindset as a package and then rolls through the systemizing process in a step-by-step overview.  The next several posts of the series will include more specific information and detailed suggestions. For a small business, what is the most virulent strain of self-deception? The […]

Critical Thinking Search and Rescue I’m presenting the concepts in a certain order so they build upon each other as if we are constructing a house. We start with clearing the land and then we carefully pour the foundation and then we do the framing. It’s a step by step linear progression over time. If […]

“For too many of us, slowing down to examine things is not entertaining, and that’s too bad because it’s mandatory that we take the time to understand the machinery of our lives if we are to modify that machinery to produce the results we desire.” That’s a quote from my book, Work the System: The […]

(Go here to read the Introduction to the series.) The Point of Sale concept is integral to the nine other Systems Mindset concepts that will follow. Ultimately, getting solid control of one’s life is the goal and the Point of Sale posture is an essential ingredient in pulling that off…. Point of Sale The Point of Sale (POS) principle has always been […]

Over the next weeks, I’m going to cover ten Systems Mindset concepts that have significantly improved my life over the past two years. Some of them are brand new, developed after Work the System’s last revision, which was just one year ago. Others will be familiar but I’ll give you a fresh update. The Point […]

The Consummate Formula So, the work the system Method is based on a simple premise that I call the Systems Mindset: the gut-level awareness that life is a collection of systems, each of which produces some kind of tangible result. If you agree with that proposition, you’ll find the following explanation interesting, especially because you […]

You are the one with the great lifestyle but, on the road, lousy interpersonal communication with those back home will compromise everything you have accomplished. Be cavalier about it and you will lose your colleagues and your customers. Because you are on-the-fly and often in different time zones, it’s up to you to make up […]

If you have been thinking about taking the leap to join the One-on-One Coaching program, now is the time. Here is what you will get … 1. Weekly one-on-one training calls with Josh Fonger – He has been with me since the beginning and has worked on every WTS transformation that we have ever done. […]

Late last Thursday evening a friend and I watched The Matrix. Larry and Andy Wachowski’s film masterpiece, it was my fourth viewing . Watching it yet again was as epic as my first viewing back in 1999 and so, Friday morning, I back-burnered today’s scheduled post and wrote this one instead.

Vishen Lakhiani is a very cool guy. Here’s his bio. We connected while I was in British Columbia last fall on a consulting gig (he was in Asia). He’s boiled it down to the most important points. It was a fun interview!