17 min
LNB #052: The Dip (Pt. 2) Like Nobody's Business
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- Management
This week, we cover ways to think your way through quitting. Knowing the answers to the key questions for your business or accountability, you can figure out pretty quickly what you should be saying "yes" or "no" to.
To remind you, in Seth Godin's book, The Dip, he describes three key conditions when we get stopped:
The dip: where the break in your action is so deep and wide that you can't move out of it with the resources you're expending. Kind of like the straight-A highschooler who never really had to expend herself...until she got a snootful of Calculus 115.
The cul de sac (or dead-end): staying here will keep you from doing
something that will work for you and it will never, ever change. His
suggestion? Get out as quickly as possible. Remember, the analogy of the kid on the Big Wheel? It was cute the first few times around, and then it never seemed to stop.
The cliff: you can keep this going for quite a while, but it runs out of gas and leaves you on the side of the road with no options. Kind of like smoking, that doesn't seem to really hurt anything--that is, until the doc gives you That Look, you know the one.
Be sure to grab a copy of this little book. I'll be chatting about it for a few more 'casts.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION FORUM, LISTEN AGAIN OR READ SHOW NOTES
Lalita Amos
http://www.TotalTeamSolutions.com/podcast/podcasting.htm
http://totalteam.blogspot.com
214 615 6505, 3895 for questions or comments
This week, we cover ways to think your way through quitting. Knowing the answers to the key questions for your business or accountability, you can figure out pretty quickly what you should be saying "yes" or "no" to.
To remind you, in Seth Godin's book, The Dip, he describes three key conditions when we get stopped:
The dip: where the break in your action is so deep and wide that you can't move out of it with the resources you're expending. Kind of like the straight-A highschooler who never really had to expend herself...until she got a snootful of Calculus 115.
The cul de sac (or dead-end): staying here will keep you from doing
something that will work for you and it will never, ever change. His
suggestion? Get out as quickly as possible. Remember, the analogy of the kid on the Big Wheel? It was cute the first few times around, and then it never seemed to stop.
The cliff: you can keep this going for quite a while, but it runs out of gas and leaves you on the side of the road with no options. Kind of like smoking, that doesn't seem to really hurt anything--that is, until the doc gives you That Look, you know the one.
Be sure to grab a copy of this little book. I'll be chatting about it for a few more 'casts.
_____________
FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION FORUM, LISTEN AGAIN OR READ SHOW NOTES
Lalita Amos
http://www.TotalTeamSolutions.com/podcast/podcasting.htm
http://totalteam.blogspot.com
214 615 6505, 3895 for questions or comments
17 min