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Contingency Planning

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How important is disaster and contingency planning for your business … now? 

In 2016, my wife and I opened our horse farm. We also started an equitherapy-for-vets nonprofit.

One of the requirements for accreditation of the nonprofit was to establish contingency plans to mitigate potential risks.

After 21 years in the military and 7 years as a war planner, I fully understood the importance on risk mitigation through disaster and contingency planning.

Even though we’re a small business, we have plans in place for Flooding, Freeze, and Fire. The Flooding and Freeze plans have been used every year since we opened.

We never imagined that Pandemic would be on the list!

However, what we found is that we were able to pull out our plans and were able to quickly pull key aspects of the existing plans to create a quick response to deal with this crisis.

Did your business have any formal contingency plans going into this? Have you ever considered business risks and devised mitigation strategies.

No one could have planned for a Pandemic, except maybe the World Health Organization. However, planning is still quite important.

If you don’t have any contingency planning, what are you going to do about it today?

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Leadership After COVID-19

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How will your leadership  behaviors change after COVID-19?

I’ve seen some pretty sad displays of business leadership during this crisis.

Governments hiding the truth. Business owners forsaking their people.

By now, most have seen the story of Chili’s in the Atlanta airport, where they had all their workers come in to clean the store and then laid them all off directly afterwards.

As a leader, have you taken a hard look at yourself in the mirror and witnessed how your behavior had changed in this crisis? Are you self-aware?

Jobless claims soared to 3.2M.

This week, I heard of a business leader moving all their sales staff from partial salary to 100% commission. This in a company that can’t sell anything right now. Might as well lay everyone off.

Then I’ve seen leaders that eliminated their entire salary and all the executives took a pay cut.

Some companies have cut all salaries in half during this crisis to keep everyone on staff and protect their jobs.

While others have used this as a way to eliminate people they wanted gone from their company all along.

Imagine what people will look for in a leader after this crisis? Especially at a time where companies will be hiring in the droves.

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What Will Change?

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How will our  world change due to the coronavirus ⛑ crisis?

My Predictions:

More people will find remote online employment versus employment in a brick and mortar business.

Businesses will also move more to remote workers and reduce their costly footprints.

Homeschooling is going to step up for sure.

If teaching K-12 remotely works, people are going to question the public burden of costly infrastructure–we might see physical campuses simplyngo away.

Grocery and supplies delivery will significantly increase.

People will store more nonperishable food and consumables in their homes.

Expect more home downsizing.

Eating at home and healthier will increase.

The streaming video industry will grow significantly to serve much more people — things like movie theaters will decline.

Trust in government will hit the single digits.

Your thoughts?

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The Importance of Mission Right Now

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Your mission statement  means everything to your company right now.杖

Is you mission statement just words that make you feel good?

Or are they words that you live by?

Your mission should define you in good times and bad.

Right now, your mission is most important and now is a true test if actually live by it.

My mission it to be an Incubator of Success, coupled with my vision of Leaving nothing but success in my wake.

These words mean even more to me today as I and others around me struggle with this current crisis.

I still look for ways to share content that inspires and teaches — in Hope’s to provide assistance to those in need of success right now.

See, in times like these, especially in business, it can be very easy to focus only on yourself and your business. Not you customers, partners, or employees.

Yes, being a success incubator also means focusing on my own success, but during this crisis it doesn’t mean to only focus on my success.

If you’re struggling in business right now, reach out below. Let’s discuss innovative ways to get through this together.

Share your mission and how important it is right now to you.

Maybe now is the time you really discover your true mission statement?

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Getting Up To Speed

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How do you quickly become an expert at work? 👨‍🎓🚇 And what does a subway have to do with it?

I’ve been in subways before, in Washington, DC, and in Paris, France. So, I have some experience with them.

However, the subway in New York City definitely provides a different level of understanding and expertise.

I took a little time to study the subway map and to research online how to navigate the subway.

This allowed my wife and I to be able to effectively navigate around town over the last two days. Numerous times, my wife was lost or would have got on the wrong train, but I was confident and got us where we needed to be.

Last night, she commented on my ability to quickly learn the system and get us around easily. The trick, she pointed out, was that I took a little bit of time to learn about the system.

Trust me, there’s no better school than doing something, as there were things I continued to learn riding the subway. But, I knew enough to start and be successful and that helped me learn from there.

How do you quickly get up to speed on something and how does it work?

Any tips or tricks you would care to share?

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Enter the matrix

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Do you, or have you operated in a Matix Organization? 🤔🤓

I have seen, recommended, and used the matrix approach in several organizations over the past 30 years.

Most recently, I led a team of process Improvement experts and, although they worked for me, they were matrixed out to support different clients. This gave me the flexibility of economies of scale, but also deeply embedded them with clients (product lines).

I’ve found that a matrix approach is very effective in many but not all situations.

If you’ve been in a matrix organization, can you share your experience?

What were the benefits?

What were the challenges?

Was it a success or failure?

If you’ve never seen a matrix environment before, let me know too. What are your thoughts about one?

How are you organized now?

If you’re a professional in organizational design, what experience have you had creating matrix orgs?

What are your thoughts and cautions on them?

Thanks for your discussion. Very excited to hear from everyone.

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Success takes time

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True Success … for most of us … takes time! 🏅⏰

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” Vincent Van Gogh

This is not a brag fest email–just sharing a personal success story. It’s about being consistent and constant, while focusing on things bigger than yourself.

For 30 years, I’ve been building my knowledge, skills, and experiences in business improvement. For 16 of those years, I’ve been following a personal 20-year strategic plan.

Three years ago, I had great conversations with a company that was doing incredible things and was faced with incredible opportunities. Our timing wasn’t right.

However, I followed this company for the past three years, watched their progress, and stayed in touch.

Two months ago, the company reached out — they had been watching me on LinkedIn too. Our conversations three years ago made more sense now — they were ready.

This week, I started working with them on a strategic engagement and it is so incredibly exciting! My 30-years’ experience is coming to bear on a company that truly appreciates me and what I have to offer.

I am looking forward to huge successes with them!

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You have no competition!

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What if I told you that, “You have no competition?” 🤠🥳🤓

Well, that’s what 3Sixty Integrated CEO, Will Duke, shared to a full house recently at a recent ACG Central Texas luncheon.

I found this an intriguing statement.

Do you feel as if your company has competition? Or not?

If you do, how would you change your paradigm to think otherwise?

What would the business world be like without competition?

What are your thoughts?

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