QUICK STEPS TO GET GOOD HARVEST @ THE END OF THIS LOCKDOWN
We harvest what we sow. And every planting takes its time for harvesting. However, an old Jewish proverb teaches that the one who diligently sows will be attained with the harvest while he is still sowing.
There is times to stop and save some time to reflection about main questions in our daily being and doing. The Why. The What. The How. The Objective Results. The ways to Optimization for Better. But, we live in times and in a generation that have very little training to have the skills and the courage to stand before yourself, like in a mirror, in silence and contemplative intentional exercise, and make this hard questions in a deeper and significative new ways.
Times like this lockdown due to national sanitary recommendation because COVID19 risk of infection, we need to take very intentional steps to "soil seeds" of new beginning now, to get from the light at the end of this "dark tunnel". The known world is already gone. But we can act today to get a "better harvest" ever. Here some steps we are working on to have a better landing in ourselves, in our business and in our new reality.
ADAPT. If we are not working hard to reorient and relearn everything about what, why and how we do our things and what we dream to become, including our customers or our job's bosses, we are walking late. In times like these, there are thousands of people who cry, and thousands who are making handkerchiefs. We need to adapt. And we need to do it fast.
UNDERSTAND. Take sometime to understand. Deeply understand your significance, your meaning, to understand what and why your markets/customers are changing, and what are they becoming after this pandemia. This will be your new target to SERVE them right and become significant for them.
EVOLVE. We need to understand that if we don't evolve, we will be left out of splendid arising opportunities, which always emerge after chaos. Every new world emerges from chaos. Some understand it quickly and evolve well. But this is an activity we must do during this lock-up in houses, not when we get out of this
INNOVATE. Where our innovation will come from, if it is not to answer these questions, correctly and in the right context. And in this coming world, sensitivity will have more weight than just the numbers. A change in significant values has occurred and will last perhaps a decade... Or more.
CREATE. It is of little use to a knowledge that does not change our being and our work. The acquired knowledge must allow us to apply that knowledge in transforming myself and the organizations where we work or direct. The goal: to be leaders and thus achieve POSITIONING and LEADERSHIP keeping ourselves in the heart and mind of our regular customers and our significative relationships.
TEST. Every athlete who pretends to be the best in the world knows in deep ways the price that has to be paid to arrive, and to stay. We have to stay motivated. You have to keep training and try again and again, learning from mistakes and performing down the best ways to accomplish the task
PROVIDE. There must be a measurable outcome, and a renewed product/service that we can offer to better serve our customers, our friends, anyone I am called to serve and to provide the goods/services they need or desire. I've read about perfume companies that are making disinfectant alcohols. Restaurants that have mastered delivery companies. Car companies that are building ventilatory support systems. Tell me if this is not an example of what we write here.
The best time to start it is NOW. We can become victims of fate. Or we can become inventors of better futures and dream builders to Us and to people around us.
We harvest what we sow. And every planting takes its time for harvesting. However, an old Jewish proverb teaches that the one who diligently sows will be attained with the harvest while he is still sowing. Be Blessed!