Continuous improvement. Every leader wants it, yet most businesses believe they’re improving when they’re just doing business the way they’ve always done them. And this is where decay starts. Innovation has many enemies. One of them is an aversion to change. This plays out in an organization when people say “That’s the way we’ve always done it”.
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One question to ask yourself everyday to trump the status quo
in Greatness, Innovation, Strategy
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner
You know the future looks very different than it does today, your business needs to evolve to meet the challenges of tomorrow. What brought you success yesterday might not work tomorrow, you need to keep pushing boundaries, testing new tools, trying new things, experimenting with new approaches to not let complacency set in.
You need to keep one foot in the present and the other one moving towards the future, for this you need to ask yourself one question everyday:
How can we do better tomorrow than we did today?
P.S. John Jantsch has five more questions to spark your thinking.