Learings 2014 02 09

What did I learn today?

I learned (from a book) that a lot of commentary on China comes from the people in Western countries with an intent to influence their own countries. That in China the fiscal management by the government was really not that great.  If anything, it is impressive the amount of improvement that has occured even with government intervention.  It speaks of the resourcefulness and skill of the entrepreneurs in China.  And that ultimately, China is diverse (if not more so) than any other country, purely because there are just more people there, people with opinions and wants and needs.

That what I say to my staff about my partners, I probably need to internalise myself, and speak up about it.  Slowly, I think I am lifting my own veil and getting a better understanding of the people around me.

That I need to provide and ask for clarity for every action.  It makes it easier to hold people accountable.

That I need to continuously prune the systems that we have in order for it to be most effective.  I need to employ Gall's law more often, don't make a system any more complex than it has to be in order to achieve a stated goal.  When the goal difficulty increase (as it always will in a business), only then should the system increase in complexity.

That I need to start building more things to do OUTSIDE of the business in order to keep my balance and to keep energetic INSIDE the business.