The difference between resources and results
I was inspired by Chris Brogan's post at Owner this morning . Chris got me thinking about how what we notice drives our behaviours which drives our results. What are you measuring when you try something new at work? We tend to move between two poles. At one extreme, we measure results. We know what we want and that's all we measure. At the other pole, we measure reassurance. Are we getting gold stars? Does someone who counts approve of our efforts? As employees, we tend to work for some form of gold stars although we are more engaged and more successful when we are able to see the results of our work and measure those instead. As entrepreneurs, we want to measure results but until we get them, we would like some gold stars. It's hard to work on your own and hope you're doing something worthwhile. It's nice to get a gold star. It's nice, but ultimately, your ability to continue to do what you want to do depends on your results. More than anything, as an ent...