Co-Founder of The Luxury Playbook & Marketing Training Club | Helping Entrepreneurs Launch & Grow Their Startups
I stole these 3 frameworks from Nike... And used them to build my own succesful businesses. (feel free to steal and use in your own business) 1. The Initiative In chess there are a few ways to determine who is winning. The most obvious way is to count pieces. Often the person with the bigger army has the advantage. But not always... See, a smaller army occupying better terrain can hold off a far superior force. Just think of the story of the 300 Spartans holding back the Persian Empire at The Battle of Thermopylae. This is called Positional Advantage. But there is a third way to evaluate a position that 95% of people are completely unaware of... And in my experience... Whoever has this advantage, typically wins. It's called The Initiative. The Initiative is determined by which player is dictating the action. Which player is Acting and which is Reacting? Answer that question, and you can predict with a high degree of certainty who will ultimately arise victorious. Napoleon always had the Initiative. HE dictated where, when, and how the action would unfold and, as a result, despite often having vastly inferior forces, managed to win. In business (and in life), a lack of skill or experience can almost always be overcome with the appropriate amount of gusto. So move towards your goals with momentum, inertia, and ENERGY. 2. Simple Systems Beat Beautiful (complex) Systems. Often we create beautifully complex systems with fancy softwares and nifty dashboards thinking that OF COURSE this'll boost productivity by 10,000%. How can it not? Well, it's because: "Complexity often obscures actual effectiveness." Elegant systems are typically over-engineered and under-applied. The best systems tend to be the simplest (and sometimes the ugliest). That's okay... It's not about how the system looks... it's about what it produces. (P.S. The same can be said about people.)
