My Principles

100+ rules that I operate under and help to guide my life

Business
Vision/Planning

Always find something great and copy it as the first step. Let’s you learn with benchmarked data points

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Business
Vision/Planning

Don’t chase money. Build things that produce it

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Business
Vision/Planning

Work on things that will yield for a long time. Short term money is rarely worth it

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Business
Vision/Planning

Work on systems in the business. Then take vacations often. Come back and see what’s broken. Fix them and go on vacation again. If you’re there, you’ll micro correct and never know how strong the business systems are

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Business
Vision/Planning

In bad times, often the best strategy is to do nothing and see where to pivot too. Don’t move too quickly in the wrong direction

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Business
Vision/Planning

If I’m not spending most of my time doing one of 3 things something needs to change. Thinking, listening or communicating

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Business
Process

Break big things into small things: Everything is easy if you break it into small enough chunks. If it seems hard, break it down more

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Business
Process

Systems make everyone happy and efficient

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Business
Process

Process isn’t a process without 2 things (steps and measurement)

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Business
Process

Anything that requires me, other than vision & systems engineering, I should turn into a system run by other people

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Business
Process

The better the system & technology the less talented people you need to operate it

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Business
Process

Great technology makes people that interface the public able to focus on the customer not the system

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