Top 13 Game-Changing Ideas

Here are the Top 13 Game-Changing Ideas that will fundamentally help you stay on track to achieve your business goals in 2013.  Follow these, and your results in 2013 will be “miraculous”!

1. Schedule at least an hour per week for critical thinking – Think on Paper!
2. Plan your day before it starts.
3. Before you start building a solution or “machine” to solve your problems, accurately identify the problem that “IS”.
4. Create and consistently measure the five critical drivers of your business.
5. Find and eliminate the expenses in your business that are not contributing to gaining new customers or keeping the ones you have.
6. Understand and use the financial levers in your business cockpit.
7. Use the five financial levers to dramatically improve the cash flow.
8. Transform your “high maintenance” team into a “high-performing” team by focusing on the culture.
9. Create a workplace culture in which employees regularly raise their hand and ask, “What else can I do?”
10. Run your business so that customers would say: “I would have to be crazy to go somewhere else!”
11. Develop a strong enough brand (niche) to attract customers and repel the competition.
12. Increase your profits and cash flow, without increasing sales.
13. Reduce the hours spent on non-productive activities and increase the effort on activities that drive real bottom line results.

Courtesy of Keith Cunningham

For those of you who have not yet taken his Business Mastery courses, you may want to check them out.  I can endorse them highly.  Keith is an awesome speaker and teacher. Here are the  Upcoming 4-Day MBA Dates:

January 31 – February 3, 2013 – Copenhagen, Denmark

February 7 – 10, 2013 – Austin, Texas

February 27 – March 2, 2013 – Melbourne, Australia