Business processes and systems trend toward entropy. If left on their own then the only result can be disorder. The people who are at the mercy of this disorder are those that speak with and support clients and customers. We don’t make it hard to deliver great results to customers, it just happens. Take an annual audit of your business processes that customer support and sales teams need to deal with or get complaints about. Then get merciless at cutting out the junk you find that doesn’t help anyone.
Now Reading
Planned books:
- The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle
- The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits
Current books:
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Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
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Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation by Phil McKinney
Recent books:
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
- Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than your by Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone, Yuri van Geest
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
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