Here are some tips and tweaks for your own pursuits.
My Philosopher friend, Phillip, helped me clean up my golf swing.
Golf Tweaks
- Straight front left arm
- Rotate the shoulders
- Torque the torso
- Inside out swing
- Hands out front
- Relaxed toes out
- Keep head on a spike
- Hands come through
- Come down on ball
And here’s a wonderful book to gift yourself or others with more golf and life insights. Greatness by David Cook – he probably is a philosopher! 😉
Business Results
“Your team is perfectly designed to get the results you are getting.”
If you are facing decline, you need a truth teller. You can’t logic your way out of your problem.
Another thought: “If you don’t get the people right, the strategy doesn’t matter. Don’t get the people right, you won’t get execution.“ – Jack Welch
How to Connect With Others
I spent a lot of time in Austin making connections between friends that can help each other. I love introducing people to each other. Here’s my post on LinkedIn for my process to help my friends get what they want.
Simplify
Incredible deal at $20 for Simplify Magazine. Many of our problems in business and life can be solved by subtracting and simplifying. The complexity and adding more may be exhilarating, but it often comes with unintended costs. This is a lifetime membership fee to get you changing areas of your thinking and structure intentionally and dramatically.
This is Strategy
Greg McKeown’s podcast with Seth Godin has some powerful insights on how to affect strategy and change by understanding the underlying systems which dictate behaviors and are uncompromising by nature. I liked the speech Godin cleverly gave to investment banker interns to expose the norms they didn’t realize they were governed by.
