what needs to be done right now in your business?
“The Zen-inspired painter seeks the ‘truth’ of a landscape, like that of religion, in sudden enlightenment. This allows no time for careful detailed draftsmanship. After long contemplation, he is expected to be able to seize inner truth in a swordlike stroke of the brush….”
Working as hard as you do it’s easy to become so focused on what you’re doing that you forget why you’re doing it.
Peter Drucker, often considered The Father of Management, formulated many concepts about business that we now take for granted.
In this particular case I’m refering to what he called “the activity trap,” and Drucker proposed “management by objective” as a way to avoid it.
So how do you maintain focus on your objective, the “what” rather than the “how,” and thereby keep innovation alive?
Are you confident that you really do know what needs to be done right now, for your investment of time, effort and money to not become insignificant?
Before jumping into my own day of “hurry hurry, rush rush” I began by taking a bit of time to Think.
That thinking motivated my sharing this post with you.
If this post has caused you to take a pause and Think, my time sharing this with you has been well spent.
Personally, what I’ve come up with about my own business, involving you now reading it 
is this:
“My job is to get both of our “wheels of thought” rolling by asking questions.”
“Your job in our masterminding the sharing of thought is to provide answers.”
For both of us this begins a journey of self-exploration, Peter Drucker would suggest,
“A journey of Self-Exploration with Five Essential Questions:”
1. What is your mission?
2 Who is your customer?
3. What does your customer value?
4. What are your results?
5. What is your plan?
Organized Planning, Step 6, will be the next step detailed in our sharing with you each of the Be All You Can Be 13 steps to Freedom.
Part of today’s research toward its writing had me read the following introduction to Peter Drucker. Who’s influence upon modern day business is now legendary.
It gifted me with some powerful thinking time.
As part of your own innovative thinking today give it a read, and take some notes of what about it inspires you.
I look forward to you sharing your comments to this post.
What are your results, having inspired each other by sharing our thoughts today, and taking these first steps of masterminding together?
Ref. “The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z” http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/11/Drucker.html
A quick “brush stroke” of it’s Z:
“Zen: In 1998, when the writer Harriet Rubin interviewed Drucker at his home for Inc., he showed her this passage from a book on Japanese art: “The Zen-inspired painter seeks the ‘truth’ of a landscape, like that of religion, in sudden enlightenment. This allows no time for careful detailed draftsmanship. After long contemplation, he is expected to be able to seize inner truth in a swordlike stroke of the brush….” Similarly, Drucker achieved enlightenment through quiet observation, waiting patiently until he saw an idea whole, then rendering universal truth in the swift space of a sentence. Thus was the essence of the master.”
Let us know what you think of the full article up at Inc.com
“The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z” http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/11/Drucker.html
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