Successful launches provide clarity on the specific patient population for their products.
Sometimes it’s not worth trying to fit your product into the current guidelines. With the advent of your product, the guidelines are the ones that will have to adapt.
When a square peg won’t fit a round hole, do you lose the peg or create a hole?
It’s amazing to witness the creation of a new market–and to know that you were part of it.
You believe you have a great idea, but no one’s bought into it—yet.
Just because you’re in the minority, doesn’t mean you’re wrong.
Have they adopted something like this before? What does your idea sound like? What does it rhyme with?
Putting your novel idea in the context of something familiar helps to hit it home. It’ll also clears a path for your teammates to sell it to whoever THEY answer to.
Getting started is the hardest part.
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
When we prolong the conversations about “let’s do this” or “should we do this,” are we buying time or wasting it?
Thinking to do something is far different from actually doing it.
Sometimes it’s better to vote yourself to be the one to initiate momentum, because that’s exactly what everyone else was waiting for. The first person to start.
Travelers visiting the US are first interviewed by Customs at the airport. A traveler can only enter the country after the Customs officer allows them to pass through.
Each of us should have an intellectual Customs that interviews information. It can only enter our brain and influence our thinking after our intellectual Customs officer allows it to pass through.
No sense being a puppet, especially if you can’t be sure who is pulling the strings or why.
What is our outlook towards colleagues? The outlook sets in motion the pathway to our actions that surface to the top.
Outlook>> thoughts and emotions>> decisions.
Imagine a scenario where a colleague sounds angry on a call. We don’t know him that well, so there’s not much to go off of. Do we give him the benefit of the doubt, get defensive, or ignore them? A lot of this has to do with our outlook towards them.
How do we view colleagues? How should we choose to view them?
When teamwork is a critical part of our job performance, it’s important for us to reflect on our outlook towards our teammates.
There’s no question about the inefficiencies our health care system.
What are the efficiencies? How can they be solved?
I believe that for too long we’ve solely been focusing on trying to improve the system (reactive solutions) and ignoring improvement at the individual level (constructive solutions).
‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.’ Transformation within myself requires me to see the world differently.
Watch your thoughts for they become your words.
Watch your words for they become your actions.
Watch your actions for they become your habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
Watch your character for it becomes your destiny.
After you’ve created the tool, release it into the world by showing the users what problems it can solve and how it can be used.
Just like anything else, the tool can lose its luster without due attention. Remember the performance tune-ups: ask for feedback and keep making it better with each cycle.
Just building a tool is not enough. Someone must also give it the momentum.
Here are questions that can help you bring momentum to your tool:
In the moment, it’s far easier without goals. Binge watching until we’re too tired to keep our eyes open, logging off whenever we feel like it, …. Because we can.
Working without a goal is like shooting in the dark.
The control is given back to us when we work towards a goal.
Goals help to determine our direction and speed.
Work may seem like a playpen when it’s fun. But what about when we’re asked to do things that are the opposite of exciting or inspiring?
It requires discipline, involves an act of the will, and—maybe—recognizes the need for personal growth.
