We all want value from any time spent during the business day. The question is how to find it, or how to provide it. Having been tasked to provide morning value strategies for for a financial advisory firm during the Tech Bubble, the Post 9-11 Era, and now to way layed public company executives, I learned very quickly that value must be simply defined, logical, and motivating.
Value also needs to be a bit like farming, every day improve upon your strategy, even the smallest bit, while at the same time protect the value you built in days past. So what is the value strategy today? You already have been thinking it on the way to the office.
Today I find the talking heads talking TARP / BANK BAIL OUT. What value do we take from these ongoing discussions? 2 pieces - One, the more opinions you have the closer you can get to the perfect answer. Two, you'll never get the right answer to fixing a problem of any size by getting these opinions from the people who created the problem. Seek out the people in your organization that were not directly involved in creating the problem you are addressing in your enterprise. And get their opinions. You'll identify talent you were not certain existed. Empower team members who were sent down the wrong path, and maybe even find a new captain to solve your enterprise's problem.
So between phone calls and meetings, write that value effort down on a Post It in 10 words or less. Stick that Post It on your computer screen's frame each day and take them down after reviewing them Monday morning.
Build some value every day.
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