When Doing Nothing Is the Right Thing
Take time out to learn from every experience and apply that learning in the future — and in your business.
From: Inc.com
The practice of reflection, like many skills that make a leader more effective, doesn’t always come naturally. Some people never stop doing long enough to reflect while others spend so much time reflecting, they never start doing. The key is to find balance between these two extremes and put reflection to work for you.While it may sound like some New Age practice, reflection is basically just structuring time to stop what you’re doing long enough to assess what’s working, what’s not and why so that you can adjust future actions in order to achieve a better outcome. In other words, reflection is taking time out to learn from every experience so that you can apply that learning in the future.
Look before you leap
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Corra knows every business has its…uh…speed bumps. It has been written that the more successful companies do not necessarily achieve that success and the subsequent lasting power through remarkable strategic planning. Rather the more durable companies have found their best actions formed through trial and error. Keep what works and toss out what doesn’t.
Of course, to even begin to separate the successes from the failures, there must be staffing taking time for analysis and reflection. They have to be honest about it and candid with each other and with the upper echelon of executives as to what was worth it and what was a waste.
It may take awhile to get this right, but to get it right you need the properly skilled employee. You need candidates with behavior habits that reflect good character and the right discipline and work habits. They must have the right work habits.
Background checks will help you determine who is capable of accurately reviewing tactics and implementations and who is not. Credit Reports will help reflect the discipline of your candidate. Other background checks, such as the criminal report, will show the more obvious while others will add pieces of the overall behavior picture.
Check them out before you hire.