Posted on 19th October 2009 by Dave Wellman in Entrepreneurialism | Innovation
business choices, business planning, Innovation, perfect business
When I think about innovation, I regularly ask myself, “What would perfect look like?” The reason that I ask this question often is because the picture of “perfect” changes with the times, circumstance, and who I have become as a person. So, I am always on the look out for the things that must be tweeked in order to make my business stay on the cutting edge.
As you consider what is perfect to you, you then have decide what changes have to be made for that picture to become the very nature of your business. This kind of thinking can’t be done in minutes. It takes time to create the right picture and then create plan adjustments that will keep you on line for creating the picture.
I want to leave you with five thoughts about what perfect might look like:
- Perfect should be the cause in which your whole life is centered. Ideally your business should be the overflow of who you are and what your life is all about. Choosing a business simply because of the financial possibilities will never provide you with anything that resembles “perfect.”
- Perfect should be something you create for you and your family to be a part of. Successful businesses all around the world cause people to abandon family to gain and maintain success. Family will never be sacrificed in a perfect business.
- Perfect should cause you to see yourself as a benefit to your world rather than a shark looking for its next meal. When profits become more important than people and sales volume than those who are your customers, you cannot know “perfect.”
- Perfect should wake you up in the morning with a head full of new ideas that have to be filtered through before you can sleep at night. When your business is merely an extension of a much fuller life, you will never run out of innovative ideas about how to make things better for now and for the future.
- Perfect should always reach out. Too many business owners never really give back to their society in any meaningful way. If successful business owners would choose to care for people more and look for powerful ways to bring change to the lives of those less fortunate, the world would not struggle as it does today.
I guess, as I close out this post, that this is what perfect looks like to me. You are going to have to make your own choices and will be responsible for the consequences of those choices. But whatever you decide, keep working and keep thinking until you see perfection in your business.
Posted on 5th March 2009 by Dave Wellman in Entrepreneurialism | Innovation
Dave Wellman, Innovation
I have a question for you this morning:
“Are you tired of all the noise?”
I for one am! I mean, I get anywhere from 75-150 emails a day from people who want to “let me in on the secret” that will make me a millionaire overnight (or something like that). Every tweet is someone trying to sell me something, every post on facebook is about a new “something” that will revolutionize your life and your business.
What isn’t in any of those emails, tweets, or posts is anything about what will work for me (or anyone else) based on my skills, talents, or personality. Nearly all of this “noise” is a one-size-fits-all plan that promise results and then disclaims in mouse print that the stated results are in any way guaranteed.
I would love to find a group of 10-12 people who would enjoy spending time together looking for ways to create a truly customized plan of success for everyone in the group. Innovation is the result of conversation and people thinking out loud.
I am looking for a group of friends who want to help each other innovate, even if there is no monetary gain for doing so! (I certainly wouldn’t be opposed to making money together either.)
So …. if you want to turn off the noise and work with some people who really care about you, then drop me a line and we will work to get something going.
Posted on 27th February 2009 by Dave Wellman in Innovation
Dave Wellman, Innovation, Thinkers
Innovation requires people to think! However thinking is one of the practices that seems to be lacking in so many ways in this world today.
People hear, but they don’t really listen. When someone who makes movies for a living, or is a famous sports figure, or a funny stand-up comic says something about life, politics, business, or how the world should work, many people accept their position without any thought. But, when thinking people express a view contrary to the common thought, they are laughed at and even considered mentally imbalanced.
Thomas Jefferson said that America would remain free as long as it remained educated, but that when it ceased to be educated it would cease to be free. Real education makes people into thinkers and thinkers are the real driving force for a free society.
I am looking to associate with real thinkers. I will not always agree with your thoughts and you will not always agree with mine, but real thinkers are still who I want to meet. Will you join me? Will you make my day and ask questions that I cannot answer? Will you stir my imagination and make me think?
If you will let’s get the part started! I will do my best to consider any question, but I will not argue just for the sake of arguing.
Let’s have fun ….
Posted on 5th February 2009 by Dave Wellman in Entrepreneurialism | Innovation
Dave Wellman, Entrepreneurialism, Innovation
I have been fooling around a lot with blogging lately and in doing so I have experimented with several of my favorite topics. After some moderate success (at least in my view) I had to ask myself that all important parental question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
This blog is my answer to myself. I have been focused on some very specific things in my first blog efforts. While I enjoyed writing in those specific areas, I much prefer conversation with thinking people than just spewing my opinions with little or no response.
I am going to try to entice every reader of this blog to comment on the topics that they have an opinion or knowledge about. My hope is that when thinking, innovative people get into real and thoughtful conversations that we can all benefit and can make the world a better place! (I know that I am still an idealist and a dreamer.)
So …. subscribe, comment, and help us to make this blog a haven for the truly innovative. It ought to be a lot of fun!
