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Business is very simple. People who try to make it complex get themselves all wound around.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's most simple professions. Most global businesses have three or four critical competitors, and you know who they are. And there aren't that many things yon can do with a business. It’s not as if you're choosing among 2000 options.

I operate on a very simple belief about business. If there are six of us in a room and we all get the same facts, in most cases the six of us will all reach roughly the same conclu-sion. The problem is, we don't get the same information. We each get different pieces. Business isn't complicated. The complications arise when people are cut off from infor-mation they need.

A good manager, keeping business simple, need ask only five questions in order to make clear, speedy decisions. However, they must be

THE RIGHT FIVE QUESTIONS.
They are:
• What does your global competitive environment look like?
• In the last three years, what have your competitors done?
• In the same period. what have you done to them?
 

The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing REALITY about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality.

Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you have made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror the reality you find, then taking action right on it. THATS ALL MANAG-ING IS. DEFINING AND ACTING. Not hoping, not waiting for the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

Speed is everything. It is the indispensable ingredient in competitiveness. Speed keeps businesses—and people—young. It's addictive, and it's a profoundly American taste we need to cultivate.

There is something about speed that transcends its obvious business benefits of greater cashflows, greater profitability, higher share due to greater customer responsiveness and more capacity frorn cycle time reductions.

Speed exhilarates and energizes ...This is particularly true in business, where speed tends to propel ideas and drive processes right through functional barriers, sweeping bureau-crats and their impediments aside in the rush to get to the market place.
 
Business is very sim-ple. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality.
 

IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER
 

If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
I would relax.
I would be sillier than I have been this trip.
I know of very few things I would take seriously.
I would take more chances.
I would take more trips.

I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers and watch more sunsets.
I would eat more ice cream and less beans.
I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones.
You see, I am one of those people who live prophylactically and sanely and sensibly,
hour after hour day after day.

Oh, I have had my moments and, if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them.
In fact. I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another.
If I had my life to live over,
I would start bare-footed earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
I would play hooky more.
I would ride on more merry-go-rounds.
I'd pick more daisies.
 
PROBLEME LÖSEN

· Was ist das Problem?
· Was ist das bestmögliche Ergebnis?
· Was ist das schlimmst mögliche Ergebnis?
· Was sind die Fakten?
· Was steht dem Erzielen des bestmöglichen Ergebnis im Weg
· Beschreibe das Problem als technisches System
· Was ist die Ursache des Problems?
· Wie lauten alle möglichen Lösungen?
· Welches ist die beste Lösung?
· Once a decision is reached, act! Dismiss all anxiety
 
DINGE ERLEDIGEN

(Getting Things Done)
 

1. RICHTIG

· Do it right the first time
· Lieber 2/3 zu 100% erledigt als 100% zu 2/3 erledigt.

2. IN DER RICHTIGEN REIHENFOLGE

· Prioritäten stur in der Reihenfolge ihrer Wichtigkeit

3. UNVERZÜGLICH

· Was heute richtig erledigt ist, ist erledigt

4. GERÜMPEL ENTRÜMPELN

· Mentales Gerümpel muß weg und aus dem Weg