Hey everybody, welcome to another Fast Tip Friday. Charlie Hauck, Founder, President, and Lead Trainer at Growth Dynamics.
Hey, I'm going to reference one of my best resources, one of my best business relationships, here this week on Fast Tip Friday.
This is a book that two people I know very well, John Condrey and Paul Carpenter, wrote a few years ago. It's about management—not just sales management, but management in general. The title is a simple but highly impactful idea: The Inch Principle: $21 Million Inches of Management.
The real core concept of this book is that great success does not require great steps, great leaps, or great changes. It typically won't happen in one great moment.
You've got to have 21—in this case, John believes there are 21—critical but small steps that you can make to improve your effectiveness as a business manager or a personal manager.
If you shrink your focus to those types of thoughts and impact moments, you'll have a much greater chance of leading yourself to the success you wanted when you started the investment than if you try to effectively eat an elephant in one bite.
There's really some great stuff in here. Of course, it's available on Amazon and all that kind of stuff.
But there's a really great question on the back, and I think it's something we all need to ask ourselves from time to time.
On the back it says:
"You'd walk a mile for a million dollars, but would you move an inch?"
So here's the big idea.
Sure, if somebody's going to give me a million dollars just to walk around the track four times, I'm in all day, every day—twice on Tuesdays if you want.
But if you really want to get serious, are you committed enough to make the small but very, very impactful changes that seem insignificant, or that you tell yourself, "I can do later. I don't have to focus on it now"?
Well, Condrey is challenging everyone to commit to 21 small inches of significant decision-making in your life and in your business operation.
So I'm inviting all of you to look up John Condrey's book. Take a read.
Growth Dynamics does some co-trained courses with John on The Inch Principle thoughts and practices of management. If you'd like information on how to get connected to us and John for that training, we'd love to talk to you.
If you'd like to talk to us about how to use it in your personal life, we'd love to talk to you about that as well.
So my advice this Friday: do a little bit of self-investment.
Either look it up, buy it, or call Growth Dynamics about it. But start taking 21 small, one-inch steps and lead yourself to a more prosperous business each and every day with disciplined, focused, and newly created—but highly, highly impactful—habits.
John Condrey. Paul Carpenter. The Inch Principle: $21 Million Inches of Management. Highly recommended. Anyone can benefit.
Thanks for letting me promote a little bit of someone that deserves it. Good luck to everyone. Have a great Friday, a great weekend, and rock and roll next week.
Take care.