TD10 – Leaders of change
Google searches for the keyword “downturn” have quintupled since 2009.
This is no surprise. In business, the uncertainty of global finances has led to a world of tight budgets.
Two of the biggest costs, the biggest budget chunks, are always: payroll + marketing.
So, two of the biggest returns need to be:
1. return on payroll, and
2. return on marketing.
To survive harsh economic conditions and grow their business, senior management will be focusing on payroll optimisation and marketing optimisation.
In my own consulting I am focusing my attention on helping my clients with tight budgets to become leaders of change:
1. to create more profit out of their monthly payroll expense, and
2. to harvest more sales revenues from their marketing investment.
My mentor, Professor George Gallup, was acknowledged worldwide as one of the greatest leaders of change. George was also a wonderful American gentleman and a very nice man. He was 84 when he died at his place in Switzerland in 1984.
He was the inventor of the Gallup Poll at Princeton and the designer of market research. He was the first to map the Human Meme Pool.
Click here to visit the Gallup World Poll.
In the early sixties George wrote about his disappointing experience with many leaders and their poor ability to manage change. Most leaders have a strong disincentive to change due to their significant investment in the status quo. Often, it’s just not intelligent behaviour for leaders to champion change, regardless of how much rhetoric is squandered on the topic.
He observed that genuine change is more likely to come from the bottom-up than to be led from the top-down. Even a brief glance at history supports George’s observations.
George Gallup’s great personal wisdom was supported by his long experience of measuring, in scientific detail, the opinions of more people around the world than anyone else in history. In The Miracle Ahead he wrote that:
Change cannot be brought about easily by leaders, except in those situations in which the changes advocated do not disturb present relationships. In fact, it is the leaders who typically become the most bitter and the most effective foes of change. The public, therefore, must take the initiative and assume responsibility for progress in the affairs of man. The public must force change upon its leaders (who) command more respect today than perhaps they deserve… The leader is expert in his small world as it presently exists, not expert in the world as it might be. Although he plays an important role in modern society, it is not realistic to expect him to advocate change. This is the surest way for him to lose his status … The hope of the future rests with the citizen. To be effective, he must be well informed, and he must discover ways of making better use of his own great capacities and those of his fellow man. He cannot expect his leaders to give him much help in his upward march.
Tenpower: the deliberate use of the powers of ten
Since the early seventies I have been working with people around the world to help them grow their own business or career much faster. That is, presumably, much faster than it would have grown without my help. Where I have been able to help it’s been to get management to embrace change by focusing on their company’s cognitive assets. To get them to change their own habits of thinking and to harness the vast untapped potential of the brainpower of their enterprise. And, to try to get them to escape from the status quo and use the X10 cognitive provocation: “whatever your business is now, multiply it by ten”.
In theory, X10 is simple enough to do because you just add a zero. But, I have to report my own disappointment in the willingness of many business leaders to seriously test X10 as a way of managing change.
In practise, it has been much more difficult to get business leaders to try it out because, to many minds, it has seemed so preposterous or just too simplistic. Although a minority of senior managers have done exceedingly well with X10, the majority have had difficulty getting their head around the X10 idea.
Instead of testing X10, some instantly dismiss it as a simplistic, Pollyannish, positive thinking gimmick. In most cases, however, they are simply trapped in the old-fashioned pyramid structure where the bosses at the top of the pyramid do all the thinking and the bottom-dwellers just do what they’re told. These leaders remain oblivious to the immense X10 opportunity that is, in fact, the bottom of the iceberg of their intellectual capital.
Meanwhile, as the hi-growth companies are leaping ahead by utilising all their human assets to take care of business, many of these old-fashioned business leaders stay trapped on a steamship to nowhere. They cannot change and so their customers, their employees and their shareholders are sadly being left behind.
Because business is about survival it must, by definition, be about change. Furthermore, because business is also about growth it must be about continuous change.
It’s not so much about protecting the past as it is about designing the future. This is why logical thinking, by itself, is so inadequate for business strategy. We have to provoke ourselves to escape from the logic of the past. The gravity of traditional thinking can be so strong, especially within the cloisters of the executive suite, that a very powerful escape mechanism is required.
X10 is such a mechanism. Like the huge twin boosters on the space shuttle that power it out of the earth’s grip, X10 provides corporate strategy with the powerful provocation it needs to escape its rigid past patterns of thinking and of growth.
The X10 or ‘multiply by ten’ strategy is not simplistic nor mere positive thinking but is a serious strategy for provoking continuous change and has a scientific base. It’s simplicity of design is memetically important for its effectiveness. It enables you to use X10 as your corporate mission statement. As a meme that sits in the brain, X10 can be easily replicated from brain to brain throughout the enterprise.
The ‘powers of ten’ strategy is provocative, incredible and difficult for people to accept … at first! This cognitive dissonance is intentional. For those that persist, the dissonance disappears and they change the way they think. They come to use the Tenpower strategy as a natural part of their daily thinking. Soon it becomes reasonable, believable and easy to use. At which point they have an unfair advantage over their competitors who have not internalised the strategy.
••• TIP: Take a few minutes for this special trip into Powers of Ten.
DFQ TD10 (Feedback Question):
How can you multiply YOUR business or career by ten?
May 14th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
By creating 10 different streams or revenue
April 26th, 2012 at 11:24 am
By changing to taking actions x10 and noticing the results x10 and then thinking on the next actions x10 SDNT.
March 29th, 2012 at 8:36 pm
that’s the question I am considering – the first steps to 10 will be easier than what follows after but it will need me to set the framework @ the outset in order to keep the flow going.
March 11th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
by writing a book and being on the internet
March 2nd, 2012 at 10:36 pm
Research ten times more business opportunities or proposals. Find the one with the 10X payoff.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Increase the engagement of 10 of my key people by questioning, challenging and listening to them more often.
Spend at least 10 more minutes a day reading something new.
January 19th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
I will speak to 10 interesting people which presumably can be my accomplices and share my projects and ideas with them.
January 18th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
It’s a challenging and inspiring task. I would like to make a workable X10 project but not nominal one. I need some time to think. I will write later.
January 15th, 2012 at 12:05 am
10 new students for group session
Create a unit lesson with new strategies and sell them.
10 ways for parents to help their children learn math
Mail letters to 100 parents
January 14th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
multiplication tables…hmm…fifth grade…power’s of ten seventh grade… OK…business power’s of ten…specifically…wag my tail tens times faster? How, you say? Excellent question…time times ten. How you say? Practice repeat rehearse. What, you ask? My message: people help people. Get ten people helping. Maybe. Do ten people act multiplicatively or additively. Not sure, google, wikipedia, yahoo!
January 14th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Identify 10 patterns of change used in industries I’m interested in each week, eventually turning these into meaningful memeplexes to understand and forecast future changes based on short term evidence based trends.
December 17th, 2011 at 5:20 am
Enlist the help of suppliers, customers and prospects and ask them how their benefits from doing business with my firm or others could be enhanced 10 fold.
In their responses may lie secrets to increase my business x 10.
December 14th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Great posts by everyone, I’ll be reading all of them.
This is a challenging question for me.
By investing my money rather than just trading time for money.
By thinking of 10 better jobs I could be doing/ working towards right now.
By deleting 10 limiting beliefs around what I can’t do.
December 9th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Wow, as my career is unique to me and my culture I feel, that the only way to increase and/or multiply my career by 10 is already in effect.
I believe it is a matter of advertising and marketing my programmes, making them more attractive to the general public therefore creating a greater demand for me, my skills and my time. During and/or after which, the skills acquired and furthermore seen by my superiors will add to my integrity in reference to the darwinian machine and/or survival of the fittest which hopefully will result in more responsibilities given, promotion and/or pay raises.
Brilliant.
November 10th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
This is a challenging question for me.
By investing my money rather than just trading time for money.
By thinking of 10 better jobs I could be doing/ working towards right now.
By deleting 10 limiting beliefs around what I can’t do.
November 10th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
I can multiply my career by ten in the following way; setting a base goal and building nine other goals upon that, if not more in the future, so that I can actualize my full potential.
October 22nd, 2011 at 9:46 am
UNCHECK2CHECK 10 more times per day.
~Lance
October 3rd, 2011 at 2:06 am
- contact 10 friends x 10 days – telling them what I am doing (as business)
- contact 10 straingers x 10 days – “”"
- writing 10 emails x 10 days to companies
September 14th, 2011 at 9:57 am
My career can be multiplied by 10 by accepting a new job offer, or , perhaps better still , offering a ten fold benefit by expanding my role in my current position.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Attack the two biggest cost areas with X10 thinking
Effectiveness of Payroll X10 – identify more appropriate resources than current situation and then delegate more to them, and get more stuff done in real time.
Effectivenes of Marketing X10 – focus 10X more contact on prospects and clients whose needs align with my core business.
August 31st, 2011 at 6:03 am
by looking now for 10 times more jobs then before
August 20th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Contacting ten times more people than in the past …
August 17th, 2011 at 2:56 am
I can multiply my career by ten times by improving and making more effort to acquire great success to continually change and increase by 10x times.
August 16th, 2011 at 7:45 am
be more focused and effective in using my time
August 16th, 2011 at 5:04 am
multiply my career by 10 = spending my time 10x better
As simple as that!
July 15th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
To build my business, I need to write 10X more international marketing plans that act as proposals for internationalizing businesses – and get their leaders’ sign on.
I need to get 10X more clients, and employ 10X more employees.
June 28th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
By challenging every aspect of the business by the power of 10. Starting with the morning meeting, boosting the energy level in the room x 10, perhaps starting with 10 star jumps.
June 26th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
You play the political game and watch your back. An ugly practice which exists everywhere. This new way of thinking of x10 shows that everyone has something to offer, some of the ideas presented could be used in a very positive way allowing the company to forge ahead while the employees are grateful that their opinion has been sought. It is a win win situation.
June 23rd, 2011 at 8:54 pm
I will use X10 meme to start my own company in the field of internet marketing. I will continue to learn and impouve the manner i do the things everyday.
May 23rd, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Multiply by ten: the first thing would be to show the market what you have and how what you have can help propel the market to its goal of success. This may even mean foregoing your interest to begin with. Once you show the benefit you pass a very powerful meme and that helps you grow many folds.
April 10th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
I know & believe i can multiply my business and/ career by ten by continously reading, studying, and learning new things & new ways of doing old things on daily basis. i.e By making daily studying learning & training a special part of me.:………… Therefore, I will be committed to seeking and asking for new knowledge and understanding physically and divinely.
April 8th, 2011 at 1:30 am
Service increased x10
January 19th, 2011 at 7:20 am
I can multiply my business by building more group session and introductory talks into my marketing and by focusing on a new project with potential to multiply my business by 10
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:27 pm
DFQ TD10 (Feedback Question): How can you multiply YOUR business or career by ten?
I can depict my right index finger as representing my current business (cbs)
The components are $ sales, # clients etc
Now I have to replicate this on to each of my 10 fingers/thumbs. Yes this is an important exercise for the day.
Thanks Michael
December 23rd, 2010 at 2:29 am
I could multiply my business by 10 by thinking up new ideas every month and given the schedule and resources develop a demo of the best one and after having 10 from where to choose develop the best thoroughly,
December 1st, 2010 at 10:35 pm
I could multiply my career by ten by putting more time into researching new ideas and then using the researched information to generate plans of action. cvs2bvs.
September 21st, 2010 at 9:53 pm
I can multiply my business by ten by going from “check” to “uncheck” to the number of customers or clients I see to determine if my products or services can help or benefit them.
September 21st, 2010 at 12:45 pm
I could x10 the number of people I coach by working with groups.
September 8th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
By embracing change through focussing on the cognitive assets of not only myself, but also those around me. To change my own habits of thinking, to harness the potential of my own brainpower and the brainpower of others and to actively set about incorporating continuous change.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:01 pm
I need to be willing to make changes myself and not just rely on others to make the changes that might improve my circumstances. I need to see myself as a leader and be willing to look at my career from a different persepctive and not become stale in my thinking and my practice. I can multiply my career by 10 if I take a step back, work with others at the bottom (and at the top) and look at things from a different angle to find a solution that will benefit me, my job and my colleagues.
August 31st, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Need to be open to change and willing for let go of past/current patterns for possible ‘better’ ones. (CVS to BVS) Do not always see the ‘leaders’ as directors of change (as by their very nature, they are most likely to want to keep the status quo – as that is how they got where they are). Much more interesting ideas may be found ‘at the bottom’ where they are more willing to make leaps of faith as they don’t have as much to lose.
August 30th, 2010 at 11:20 am
By being open to trying new ideas and not dismissive of peoples suggestions.
Opening discussions up to more people and ideas.
Contacting 10 people for their input
Contacting 10 people to offer thanks and praise.
August 25th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Be open to change and work toward mission goals on a steady basis. Look for new and better views /possibilities that respond to current needs and look forward, actively ask questions and collaborate with minds and hearts of others.
August 25th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
By envisaging the potential in new ideas and exploring change actively. X10 is not likely to occur without X10 of openness to change, making sure you attain a BVS.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:13 am
I can diversify from the development of drugs to the development of nutraceuticals,medical foods and cosmeceuticals. This will enable me to bring more products to market quicker and at a much lower cost while creating a lager profit potential.
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:05 am
I work part time in a shop that is part of a chain. They still concentrate on Payroll and Marketing strategies. Usually the cutting of budget for both. My manager has ceased to be inspired by new ideas due to the constant struggle with ancient ideas from above.
I am inspired to take any new ideas beyond, not only his authority, but to the owner. I like my manager and I understand the situation he has come to.
X10 calls me to break the chain of command but does it give me the right?
July 15th, 2010 at 9:15 am
By surviving
By escaping
Adding the zero
By changing
Being informed
By growing
By persisting
By believing
By designing the future
By multiplying by 10
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Embed GBB into 10 of our existing processes
Spread my message in 10 different ways
Identify 10 ways to improve our service
June 24th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
X10 using of the SDNT (START-DO-NOTICE-THINK).
June 18th, 2010 at 3:05 am
1-Contact 10 new poeple everyday
2- See 10 clients
3- Dictate 10 pages daily
4- write 10 personal letters every day – follow up
5-Find 10 new agents or publishers
6-work for 10 hours daily
7-Cut costs by 10%
8- send out 10 prosals
9- Invest 10% in marketing / branding
10- reduce lentgh of book by 10 %
June 7th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Identify 10 new inroads to a new corporate role.
Identify 10 ways to utilize these new thinking skills in a practical commercial way.
Identify 10 reasons a company or person might like to use my thinking services.
Identify 10 ways that said companies or people could pay for my services.
Identify 10 aspects or core areas in setting up myself as a thinking expert.
Contact 10 of my contacts with a mechanism for them to on-contact 10 of their contacts regarding my career search in the thinking industry. (this one i am excited about)
the list goes on…
May 6th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Contact x10……everyday
April 15th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
By taking 10 minutes every day to review what I can increase by 10x
By increasing staff involving by 10x – eg:
when there is a opportunity for change involve 10 more people than I would normally have done
March 24th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Work X10 smarter not harder!
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:45 am
I have been learning all about lean lately and it is interesting to me the comment about business needing to change and not defend its past position. Lean also teaches this buy saying that if your customer requirements change then your business must change to suit the customer need.
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:24 pm
By adopting the tool and sharing it with others in my network
January 20th, 2010 at 9:37 am
By taking 10 time more time to consider the smart way of approaching a problem (don’t be pushed into rash decisions).
By taking 10 times more time for “me” to reduce stress and improve my decision making.
By improving my focus by 10 by learning to prioritise better.
January 19th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Get a job that better fit my skills, so that I can have more impact on the business
January 18th, 2010 at 7:40 am
It’s a little late for me to multiply my career by ten but it is definitely a concept I should take into retirement. Embrace challenges and live life large! Do 10x the things I might be thinking about.
January 18th, 2010 at 6:54 am
Being 10x quicker with decisions like what to say to this question would be a start.
December 27th, 2009 at 9:03 am
“… The hope of the future rests with the citizen. To be effective, he must be well informed, and he must discover ways of making better use of his own great capacities and those of his fellow man. He cannot expect his leaders to give him much help in his upward march.”
Foster POSITIVE change where ever and when ever you can. Small drops make an ocean! Important thing is to making those small drops EFFECTIVE.
December 24th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
One answer is…
that possibly…… I can do this by thinking x10 smarter, more creatively, more unexpectedly, in a way that is focussed 10x more upon the target market …..I have already used 1x more advertising covering ten times the area originally intended ….and I am building hopes for 10x more of a return ….in the interest that is generated and the WOMBAT effect.
There is only one of me ,but I have already focussed ten times the energy towards my objective….to sell ten electric bikes inside of ten weeks.
December 24th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Marking assignments and giving feedback take a huge chunk of my time, i need to reduce the amount of time spent marking X10, and also need to design assessment items such that students generate their own feedback along the way by completing the stages of the assignment…hmm, I think I’m onto something here…!
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:24 pm
By improving 10 relationships
By doing ten more things
By doing things 10x faster
By praising 10 more times a day
By spending 10 more minutes a day innovating
By reading for 10 more minutes a day
By spending 10 more minutes learning something new
By repeating cvs2bvs 10×10 a day
By finding the ten most critical areas of our business and prioritizing them
By finding the 10 most “problematic” areas, prioritizing them, and eliminating them
December 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
By investing time & energy in the areas of known strength
and reducing involvement in areas that hamper growth
December 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I will look atX10 as meaning growth- both interms of harnessing ideas from my staff and looking at ways we can all be given permission for personal growth rather than feeling that we are blocked by sets of rules.
November 29th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
To Think in terms of all issues facing always in multiplication of TEN.
Because business is about survival it must, by definition, be about change. Furthermore, because business is also about growth it must be about continuous change. We must always prepare ourselves to face these challenge on any contingenceis or growth with TEN.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I can envisage and then enact a plan to multiply my part savings target by 10. I can multiply by 10 the technical and organisational experiences in my long career here I draw on in creating the above plan and make it 10 times as efficient.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I will ask for and provide 10x more feedback on a daily basis within my career to enhance mine and others around me’s understnading of each other.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
To develop training programs for 10 new areas of interest/benefit for the company and that further my personal objectives at the same time – then train people ten at a time.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:44 am
To identify and work 10 key tier 2 customers who do not trade with us at present and focus our resources to obtain 10 new orders (as a start).
This is to be used in conjunction with change management and removing blinkered views
November 4th, 2009 at 10:20 am
My career depends on scientific publications. Instead of trying to think of all the new ideas myself, plus implement them, I could find 5 students to do research in my group. They would each, with my help, publish 2 papers per year. A work-experience person or technicion would help me carry out research for another one. This would 10x my current miserable publication rate from 1 to 10 or more per year. I could do this if I spent more time organising, planning, giving the people who work for me interesting and enjoyable things to do and less time worrying about how to get it all done.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
To start with coach 10 people in my business over the next 6 months and then persuade them to teach 10 more.
October 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Making 10 more contacts every day. Creating 10 more strategies to increase my client base. Reading 10 more books to get more ideas to provide a better service to my clients.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:36 am
By building perspective, we can think outside the box.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Multiply my career by ten? Honestly no idea. What is “my career”?
Multiply my life by ten?
Look for, and find, a job that I enjoy, that is meaningful for me and beneficial to others, that makes me say “YES” every morning. Oh, and pays the bills.
I will be able to enjoy everything so much more, X10 more: family (kids grow up too quickly!), hobbies, everything.
X10
October 28th, 2009 at 5:57 am
By investing more of my time and energies into the careers/job satisfaction of those that I supervise.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
By writing down 10 objectives for my self and then creating for each 10 new ways to reach them
October 25th, 2009 at 2:57 am
I am not making any sEttements about whether any of these paths already have been implemented, or not.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
By setting definite goals and doing whatever possible in a day in the most efficient manner towards multiplying the biz and improving day after day through feedback and course correction
October 24th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Step out of my comfort zone and do some personal marketing and networking to illustrate what I can offer to my colleagues and how I can assist their business’s to grow.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Identify 10 steps over 10 weeks, that will allow my website to be launched to maximise its potential. Step 10: Ask 100 friends to send the link to 10 people.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Muliply my career by ten by not being satisified with the status quo, by being open to new job opportunities (and more actively seeking them out), by focusing on opportunites within my current position, by improving my personal outputs and encouraging my staff to do the same both for their individual growth and for the benefit of the organisation they are currently working in.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:48 am
By writing down 10 goals for my self ..then creating for each 10 sensible actions to get the desired result..
October 19th, 2009 at 8:00 am
I can x10 my career (and business) by reviewing the list I developed in a prior DFQ, of 10 things I can do on my top 10 priorities. And then decide which 10 items are most compelling to me to act on immediately.
October 18th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
It may be difficult to measure whether (and how) a tenfold increase in my career has been reached. Nevetherless, one can always speculate about the (real or hypothetical) possibilities.
One such possibility is a linear extension of what is, i.e. a multiplication by 10 of my current situation. It might be a difficult path to follow, both in terms of ascertaining how much is 10 x the status quo, and in terms of ascertaining that, indeed, I have now reached the 10-times limit.
The other possibility is diversification into several paths that are, careerwise, related. Some of the paths might include mentoring, publishing, becoming (more) active in professional and trade organziations, joining a political party, lobby, or a pressure group, etc. I am not making any sttements about whether any of these paths already have been implemented, or not.
October 18th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Ask the question, “how can I better this situation?”10 x. See what happens when I do.
October 18th, 2009 at 4:20 am
I work on my own artistic pursuits so my enhancement would be through advertising and exposure.
October 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
If you can think of one, two or three things, about a situation, why not list 10 things and so discover a much better view of the situation?
October 17th, 2009 at 8:44 am
I work in the public sector, not business. For me “X10″ might mean providing ten times the public benefit for every dollar used to support my own position and the programs I manage. I’m not sure I can get to ten, but I’m working on four or five. The main way I’m doing this is by pushing designers and developers of affordable housing to bring forward proposals for housing that will last at least 100 years with as little maintenance as possible, no repairs ever needed, and net-zero energy consumption!
October 16th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Take the time to stop and rethink what I am doing
October 16th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
multiply my strengths by following my positive behaviours 10X more often
– trust my Instinct x10
– clear my mind in meditation X10
– patient thought before action X10
– Harnessing Curiosity to feed my passion X10
divide my weaknesses by following negative behaviours 10X less
– always having to answer the question then and ther – /10
– not saying “NO” when I should – /10
– reacting emotionally in the moment – /10
– not engaging with difficult personalities – /10
October 16th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Write down 10 goals that I would like to achieve – perhaps 3 short term, 3 medium term and 4 long term. Then write down 10 actions I would need to do to reach each goal
August 27th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
To be able to learn the new form of Taichi, I practice 10 times each lesson has been taught.
August 25th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Work out how to make 10 times as much money with 1/10 of the effort.
August 22nd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Hello,
Take the leap ………..
Resign and start my own business
Bill
July 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Identify ten new opportunities to leverage my strengths.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Survival means change.In order for the company to grow the process of change must be inbuilt so it becomes continous.x10 must of necessity be part of this process.to increase my client base i must increase my list x10.for every mail that i send out i increase the number x10.I must build x10 into company strategic thinking and planning.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Get ten times more clients subscribed to my newsletter distribution
Find ten more media outlets to use
Speak directly with ten people per month about my business
Attend ten more network sessions
Do ten more workshops
June 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
By now looking at my business as only ever a 10% business, I have installed a “power-of-ten” mindset – or a maybe a healthy dissatisfaction meme.
June 5th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
think of new ways to do things
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:39 pm
As a teacher, my professional status changes every day. I experience new and innovative ways to deal with student misbehaviour, teaching and learning skills and strategies, instructional delivery, parent communication, rules, regulations, rights and responsibilities. School teaching can change as quickly as one can say X10. Listen better, hear better, watch better, respond better, react better and feel better about myself , the decisions I make and be prepared to be prepared and you will always create an improvement in my career.
May 12th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Think big, set stretch goals and targets, don’t do things in halves, aim for the moon, don’t let others with negative attitutes and opinions drag you down – share the power of 10 with the rest of the business and work continually at getting everyone to adopt the X10 way of thinking. Be persistent so that the power of 10 becomes the normal way of thinking.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I’d like to extend my networks and contacts as one approach to enhancing my business activity and revenue. I also love to learn. So I could attend 10 additional seminars and other learning opportunities. At each of those, I will introduce myself to and exchange cards with someone new. If I attend a day long event, then it should be feasible to speak with 10 people. I could give that a bit of a twist by then offering those people (because I know they like to learn) an opportunity to participate in a workshop, webinar or seminar that I presented. I could then ask those people to recommend my workshop (if appropriate) to others.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
My time is eaten up by marking assessment items! I need to reduce the time spent X10, but I still need to have the same quality of feedback to assist in learning! ( Or maybe I can INCREASE the quality of the feedback X10 as well???)
April 21st, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Speak to 10 x more people
Identify the 10% who will provide 90% of the business
Set 10 x bigger goals
Bust limiting beliefs x 10
Get 10 x streams of income
April 11th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
think of 10 new directions or paths to take
April 1st, 2009 at 11:40 am
As my newest venture is based upon the duplication of a selling system I helped design for special events I need only train eight more people to have multiplied myself and duplicated my effort by the power of ten. I then need to train ten trainers to train the next group of ten. The difference between a one man show and a selling juggernaught!!
T*10=10T 10T*10=100T hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm
March 19th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
By creating 10 new investments for the future
March 13th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I’ve often thought about this…I’ve heard it before from people like Brian Tracy. And, I admit that when I heard it the first time, I dismissed it. It seemed a little out of reach.
But X10 is a good meme. To multiply my career x10, I would have to duplicate myself or increase my value and output. I can duplicate myself in a business that I own…which is what I’m working on. But, I’m not sure how to x10 my career at my full-time job.
I’m actually more interested in dividing my day job into nothingness and focusing entirely on my business. Then I can x10 my business, which makes more sense to me than multiplying my career by 10.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:26 am
SDNT +CVS2BVS + Some good memes …
February 28th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
By being OPEN, Receptive and Allowing Continuous Change to Occur.
Not to permit my own ego to get in the way …Nor the Status Quo.
IF I Am to be a Catalyst for Continuous Change and a meme of such, I, therefore, must Participate Creatively in my Very Own Personal and Professional Life … Be A Living Meme/Example …
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life.
February 14th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
include that (multiply by ten) in goals
and spend minimum 10mins a day answering ‘what else is possible?’ (in terms of implementation of x10meme)
February 12th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
by beleiving in it
by multiplying my aproach
and the number of people to reach as potential clients
February 12th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
After making a decision, step away before implementing it and think of 10 ways of making that decision better.
February 11th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Start by believing it is possible.
January 14th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Working with my”marketing by 10″ module for more exposure in Art market.The emphasis on reputation,spread by WOM,is crucial to success.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Speak to 10 times more people in 2009 than we did in 2008 and ensure they are in ‘check’ positions.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:13 am
As an artist,I can apply myself to ten times more exposure to patrons and the printmaking industry.
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Keep it simple and work from the bottom line up – how to first build profit X 10 and then income x 10. thanks, that was fun.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Look at 10 opportunities instead of a few, and work towards achieving them. Always think of 10 BVS to the current CVS
November 20th, 2008 at 12:04 am
It was not very difficult as I have changed my career several times, as I started off working in fashion boutique in 1988 and from there I got into music recording, then garments business, garments exports, modeling/stage shows, acting, theatre, films, cricket analyst for cricket teams and for the media. All this time I have used all of these skills in each other. Is it too much or less I do not know- Thank you
October 11th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Take step one: Believing that I can
September 29th, 2008 at 9:17 am
be willing to change with the clients needs.
spreading willingness to change with the times by word of mouth and being ready to back up what you say.
have all managers take a Darwin Therory class to start to understand the mission statement about growth in the company.
use the X 10 to the fullest.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Gain ten extra clients
Build up newsletter distribution to ten times per year
Chase up ten more email addresses to add to client database
Find ten more media outlets to use
Speak directly with ten people per month re my project
Get ten project champions in a new region
Do ten project presentations before the project ends
Get ten people interested in the social research I have been doing
Chase up an extra 10 people to respond to questionnaires
Take ten weeks holiday to see the world
August 20th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Find 10 X 10 new shareholders
Spreed success Menes as to returns others are enjoying
Come up with 10 catchy promotional Memes to assist the establishment of the new Branch
Enroll 10 social leaders to discuss progress regularly
Create 10 press releases.
Create 10 information boards
Take 10 advertisements
Do 10 time the number of news letters.
Outline and promote 10 benefits to the community will enjoy with a new Bank
Enroll 10 shop keepers
August 12th, 2008 at 8:48 am
If I had a simple online business:
l. Come up with 10 ideas to advertise.
1. WOM.-Tell 10 people a day over 10 days.
2. Backlinks.-Create 10 back-links a day over 10 days.
3. Forums.-10 different posts in 10 different forums for 10 days.
4. Newsletters.-Add 10 extra lines in your newsletters w/links and send out to 10 extra people.
5. Directories-Submit to 10 different directories a day for 10 days.
6. Comments-10 comments on 10 blogs or sites over 10 days.
7. Emails-10 emails to the top 10% of your most reliable existing customers.
8. Flyers-hang 10 flyers in your neighborhood.
9. Classifieds-Advertise in papers, mags or online. Offer to buy ten weeks if they give you 10% off.
10. Give your product or service away free to 10 people.
Extra: 11. Send out 10 press releases.
ll. Come up with 10 extra items you could sell.
lll. Create a list of 10 memes that have to do with your business.
lV. Read 10 books on business.
Vll. Read 10 articles on memes.
Vlll. Write 10 articles about your product and submit to 10 different sites.
lX. Invest and extra 10% towards your business.
X. Spend and extra 10% on advertising. (See Classifieds above and lX.)