Better Insights, Better Results!
I’ve been thinking of my life as a business. Without getting too carried away with the analogy - after all, life’s way more than business - it gives me a helpful frame, along with patterns and practices, to draw from. Rather than think of a business that makes money, I think of a business that creates value (the mark of an enduring business.) In this case, value for yourself and others.
Whenever I hear people debating whether life is an intelligent design or an evolutionary process, I can’t help but think that evolution is an intelligent design! When I think of design, I don’t think of veneer or appearance. Instead, I think of it as the soul of a thing, a sort of creator’s signal of intention.
I'm a fan of "living your process." To put it another way, this is about "approach over results." Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of results. The problem is you can't control all the events in your life or what happens to you. In life, you control your attitude and response ... and it's not what happens to you, but how you react.
You can tell the maturity of a market by the consumer patterns. If you know the life cycle stages of a market you can better anticipate what level of "needs" your product needs to match to be successful. (I always think of needs in stages like Maslow's hierarchy of needs.) In the Autumn Special Edition of strategy+business magazine, Alonso Martinez and Ronald Haddock describe how a country evolves from a developing nation to an industrialized nation.
Every now and then I like to take a step back and check whether I'm on track. Sources Of Insight is now a little more than six months old. My last checkpoint was Sources of Insight is One Month Old. In this post, I share some of my lessons, take a stroll through some data, and give a bit of insight into where I'm headed.
