People who ask HOW work for people who ask WHY
Ask WHY a lot more than HOW.
Here are six questions, in the order you should ask them, that will help you start, grow and build your business. The most important ones are the ones you ask least often.
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How to Start a Business
Don’t follow MBA, SBA or SCORE advice.
The SBA’s SCORE site had a “how to start a business” blog recently, but the traditional MBA-style advice is too “ivory tower” to work. It’s both much simpler and a little harder than they make it sound.
New Year Planning? Do as little as possible.
Simple vs. Complex
Annual planning, the way we’ve been taught, is largely fortune telling and a waste of time. Plan more effectively by doing less of it.
Always release your product before it is ready.
Movement, not Planning.
Want to be successful? Get your product or service out there now, not after you’ve refined it and made it good. The MBA programs are wrong. Get moving.
Building a Business is Really Simple
Get out of the garage.
My friend Alan Wyngarden has done some adventure travel and says: “The hardest thing about climbing a mountain is just getting out of the garage.” Huh? Actually, it’s pure genius.
Business Diseases of the Industrial Age
Great Toys. Bad Karma.
The Industrial Age lasted a very short 150-200-ish years in the ten thousand years of recorded human history. It brought us a lot of cool toys and a cushy life, but we’ve been afflicted with a lot of Business Diseases that came from the Industrial Age. Here’s just a few of them:
Business is Full of Beaver Dams
Struggle is Good. Embrace The Dams.
Traditional business plan thinking tells you that if you plan well enough, you’ll avoid all the “problems”. But usually it’s those “problems” that lead you to the best plan.
Planning won’t even get you a good plan, let alone success.
Stop thinking. Get moving.
Planning does not create success or even the best plan. It also doesn’t create action. Most planning just creates paper, spreadsheets, complexity, doubt, paralysis, and dream-dampening. There are two things that create a far better plan than planning itself.
