Hardball: "Are you playing to play or are you playing to win"
This is a good book, which used to be used in the Harvard MBA curriculum. I really like the last chapter which discusses some points on what to do when u really need a win or to bring a company back. These points i believe can apply to your personal life and a business, i will use it in a personal sense:
1. Survive first then gain competitive advantage: In that make sure you survive first.....so get income(9-5 job, freelance, anything), then get competitive advantage(make yourself feel special) by starting a business.
2. Make everything Fast, Focused and Fundamental:
Fast-- This relates to the time element, every task/action should have a stated timeline in which it should be achieved.
Focused-- These key tasks/actions should be protected from other tasks/actions cannibalizing time.
Fundamental-- Only efforts that go to the heart of the matter should be pursued. Only actions that are going to make a big difference to the underlying should be pursued at this point.
3. Don't tolerate failure to deliver more than once: Two or three failures to deliver suggests a lack of will, incompetence or even subversion. This applies to anyone.
You should now ask yourself, am i satisfying point 1? Then make your way from there.
1. Survive first then gain competitive advantage: In that make sure you survive first.....so get income(9-5 job, freelance, anything), then get competitive advantage(make yourself feel special) by starting a business.
2. Make everything Fast, Focused and Fundamental:
Fast-- This relates to the time element, every task/action should have a stated timeline in which it should be achieved.
Focused-- These key tasks/actions should be protected from other tasks/actions cannibalizing time.
Fundamental-- Only efforts that go to the heart of the matter should be pursued. Only actions that are going to make a big difference to the underlying should be pursued at this point.
3. Don't tolerate failure to deliver more than once: Two or three failures to deliver suggests a lack of will, incompetence or even subversion. This applies to anyone.
You should now ask yourself, am i satisfying point 1? Then make your way from there.