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Stuck in a Rut?
Most of us don't like change because it makes us powerless.

3 Steps to Customer Intuition
Numbers and facts will tell you the same thing everyone else, including your competitors, knows. Your customer intuition is what sets you apart. Find it, and use it!
Marketing: New Ideas For A New Market
Now that we are all famous, what happens when we all have access and input to the same data? How do we find our target markets? And how does marketing change given our murky demographics? I have answers, and I’ll begin by being a bit provocative: information doesn’t teach someone how to make a decision. Indeed, I believe that ‘information’ is useful only when people have already decided they are actively seeking a new solution. It’s certainly useless as a means to convince someone to do something they weren’t going to do, don’t believe in, don’t understand, or who have people and policy hurdles that created a status quo that needs collaborative decisions and systems change to move forward.
Signs
How often do we see a sign in business and simply ignore it?

5 eMarketing Status Quo Beliefs to Challenge
Challenging our status quo beliefs is critical for marketers who want to step up their ability to attract, engage and inform prospects in ways that help them choose to become buyers.
All Decisions Involve Change Management: an insurance case study
Without buy-in, nothing changes. If the group or person deemed change necessary, it would have happened already. So whatever state the status quo is in is the preferred state: no matter what you think is wrong, or how your wonderful solution would make it better, it ain’t going to happen unless the status quo is willing to change. And change means change management is necessary.
Time Honored Truths
Challenging our status quo beliefs, actions and processes is important as we reach for sustainable growth. The truths we hold dear may be holding us back. The truths we've forgotten, or ignored, may indeed be our key to success.
When Good Enough…Isn’t
When it comes to the status quo, one phrase defines it and ensures it will continue.
Is Profit the Sustainable Goal?
In our new world, sustainability is just as important as profitability. The question is, how do we push big business to adopt that focus? Especially when that Secret Status Quo is still working in favor of the "big people".
The Grey Zone
Growth often thrives in the Grey Zone - outside of the Black and White rules we learned in B School. Do you spend enough time investigating your Grey Zones?
The Law of Attraction in Business
Most businesses don't follow the Law of Attraction, at all. I think that's a status quo approach that brings loads of Gravity. It's time to change that thinking.
Breaking the Rules
Sometimes the power of your brand, the magic of the story you weave and the image you create can help you break even the tried and true rules.
4 Ways We Kill Innovation
Yet when we separate innovation from our core business, set it apart as a unique process or proposition - we position innovation as "outside" our core business. We make innovation the exception rather than the rule, treat it as a point in time exercise rather than an integral part of the way we operate on a daily basis. Only when we embrace innovation as a conscious and continuous part of our daily actions can we reap the will rewards of innovation.
The Gravity of Failure
We can and should learn from failures. We just need to be thoughtful about the lessons we carry forward.
Zero Gravity Business - Southwest Airlines
While every other airline in the industry is in trouble, Southwest continues to grow and thrive. Why? Southwest ditched the status quo that brings Gravity to the airline industry. Here's how.
Business By Belief
Yesterday we chatted about fear and how it can limit our business growth and success. Today I want to chat a bit about the business beliefs that fear can create - the status quo Gravity that is so often driven by our fears.
Gravity Freeze
The media is contributing heavily to the belief that there's little hope for any forward progress in terms of our economy. Thanks to the continued negative press and coverage - a lot of people are Frozen in Gravity, hopeless as to a recovery of any kind.
Sweating the Wrong Stuff
Whatever it is - if we choose to focus on something that is known, comfortable and in our control, even as other things are crying for our attention - well, we're sweating the wrong stuff. And that's a great big Gravity No No.
Evolve and Thrive
Without change we stagnate
Selling to C-Level Executives Sales Training Tip 11- Handling the Committees Obstacle
A committees or a subordinate has been delegated the power of awarding the contract. This C-level selling tip will help you handle this tough selling obstacle.

Don't Break the Eggs
You can't be dynamic without breaking some eggs and tipping the boat. It's impossible.
When the Experts are just Plain Wrong
Don't dismiss your own knowing, no matter what the experts say.

Got a Leap of Faith?
If you answer these questions for 21 days, you will increase your Intention to succeed. When you write the answers you activate your Big Three senses - Visual-Auditory-Anesthetize (sense of touch)
Sales Essentials: Rev Up Your Sales Engine
Ladies and gentlemen, start your sales engines! The current economic situation may be bleak but improving your core sales skills and competencies will help you to accelerate ahead of the pack and come out ahead at the finish line.

Change Is Not a 4 Letter Word
Surviving and thriving in these turbulent times means we may need to do things differently or do different things. We need to change. Here are 6 ideas you can implement immediately to get the change you want and need.
Will Obama Win?
What the new President will have to do, just like any other change leader, is gain the support of a key portion of the electorate; a group fiercely committed to seeing the change happen.

The Power of a Blank Whiteboard
Unfortunately for many companies, people don't usually respond well to change. Anything but. I wish we could embrace the opportunity to evolve processes and thinking and behaviors - but often we don't. Especially in tough times - when the company environment is probably already tense and constricted. When things get tense, people tend to hang on to what they know, as a touchstone for the status quo - which is known and safe, even if it does mean a downhill slide. Hanging onto 'the way we've always done it' is one of the most common challenges I encounter in my clients.

Talent Management in Difficult Times
Talent management is always an important functionality but it difficult or lean times it becomes even more critical.
Maintaining Yesterday vs Creating Tomorrow
John F. Kennedy once said that the best time to repair the roof is when the sun is still shining. That is a luxury we do not have right now. Instead we must proactively confront our fear of change. Embrace it. Learn to be comfortable with it.
A Moment to Change
Trees grow up through their branches, down through their roots and grow wider with each passing year. As growth occurs, trees eventually shed their protective bark to make way for growth. Humans are the same way. Just as trees need bark as a protective shield while growth occurs, we as humans need boundaries to defend our vulnerabilities as our potential unfolds… but our ongoing growth depends on our ability to shed this “bark” of protection when it is no longer needed. In some cases, an inability to shed this bark will constrict our ability to realize our full potential.

ANCORA IMPARO
Ancora imparo, translated as "I am still learning" or "Still, I am learning," is attributed to Michelangelo in his eighty-seventh year. The man who painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the Pieta and David, whose very name evokes mastery of his craft, exemplifies a lifelong learning philosophy.

How to Know You’ve Got It
How can you know when you are-or are not-tapping into the Conquering Force in your life? When You Don't Have It When you are not tapping into the Conquering Force, you'll feel as if you're drifting like a stick in a river. Life will take you wherever it wants instead of you controlling where your life goes. You will set goals but never reach them, and you'll feel that life is ruling you. Maybe you'll even decide to accept the status quo, thinking you can't do anything about it. You may believe that you don't have any choices and end up accepting that you'll never achieve what you want in your life.
The Power of Critical Thinking
In the pursuit of results and accomplishment we are all to often our biggest enemy. We accept and get very comfortable with status quo. Doing the same things over and over again will not create different or better results. However, by using the process of critical thinking you will uncover solutions and actions that will never be revealed by others or the status quo.
Blinded by the Light
We choose so often to see the safety of what we want to see, instead of the scary storm that's approaching us. When the storm hits - we drop to our knees in shock and ask, "What the heck happened? How can this be?"
Making Change Stick
How to drive sustainable change.
Challenging the Status Quo
Challenging the status quo receives its first life when there is a recognized awareness of the need to change. The individual and the organization must see itself differently and from a perspective that points to a definite need to change. This typically begins to happen when we question the premise upon which we have viewed ourselves in the past, ask thought provoking questions, and then begin to support formulating a new direction for the future.
Hope and Change the Intersection
Learn how leaders can hope for their teams and organizations during times of intense change.
Are Your Assumptions Limiting Your Possibilities?
You (and I) make assumptions many times each day. Even though some of them may be backed by factual science, most of the time, those assumptions are just plain wrong. Don\'t let your assumptions limit your possibilities.
The Status Quo and Radical Ideas
What so many of us discuss about Africa is the desire to see things change. We apply the lenses that color our lives to the problem and come up with solutions that fit our world view. Challenges to that world view are hard for us to deal with, because it likely means a paradigm shift is needed in our own lives.
The Status Quo and Radical Ideas
What so many of us discuss about Africa is the desire to see things change. We apply the lenses that color our lives to the problem and come up with solutions that fit our world view. Challenges to that world view are hard for us to deal with, because it likely means a paradigm shift is needed in our own lives.
SMART Goals are out DUMB Goals are in
If you’ve ever read any strategic or business planning literature, you’ve no doubt come across the acronym SMART for mapping out goals. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely. Those are all fine and dandy objectives, but I’m out to propose another side of the coin—DUMB goals. Hear me out for a second!

The Fountainhead Entrepreneur
The classical novel The Fountainhead has many deep dialogues - one in particular takes stabs at the idea of following established "standards" in art. Entrepreneurs should be critical thinkers who challenge the standards and skirt the bounds of creativity. Here is a great lesson from the Fountainhead.

Other status quo Related Articles

Ten Strategic Actions To Change Your Marketing Mindset, From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Many small business people struggle with marketing their business services and products. This is particularly true with entrepreneurial business owners. They engage in traditional marketing endeavors and they simply do not work. They feel bound and captive to the traditional marketing ways. Well, Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach wants you to know that there are actions you can take to get away from the “traditional marketing rut” and the “status quo” or the “me too” type marketing efforts. So, if you are interested in “breaking those chains” of traditional marketing and moving beyond the “status quo” and the “me too” attitudes of marketing, then read and implement the ten (10) strategic actions below, from Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach.
Seven Suggested Strategic Actions To Achieve Expert Status, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
A very effective and powerful marketing strategy is to position yourself as an expert, authority or “guru” in your field. Achieving this coveted status requires planning and following a deliberate process. These achievers are the ones we turn to seek advice and information on a specific topic. We visit their websites, and read their books and articles as sources of valuable information and answers to our problems. These experts also develop and present seminars and workshops at a wide variety of locations. They also are sought out by the media as sources for stories and are often quoted in the media. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers seven (7) suggested strategic actions to achieve expert status.

Continual Process Improvement
Organizations need to look at challenging the status quo as a way forward, the pursuit of fresh, innovative ideas, and a process to develop both the individual and collective organization agility. Challenging the status quo is a way to embrace change, and facilitate the endless search for new possibilities.
The Socially Responsible Procurement Practice: Moving Beyond Social Consciousness (enterprising non-profits Profile)
“The question this raises is quite simply what set of circumstances will elevate green procurement from a nice to do “boutique” status to a more meaningful (and essential) element of a sound purchasing strategy? At the risk of answering my own question, I do not think that green procurement in and of itself will achieve this status, nor do I believe that it is a reasonable goal.
Profitable Online Home Based Business Ideas and the Recession: It’s all about Attitude
What makes some people more successful than others? You may have two people who seem to be equal in all aspects, economic status in life, education, abilities etc. They may be involved in the same industry in the same system, yet one is more successful than the other. I truly believe it has nothing to do with luck, education or economic status. I do believe it has everything to do with attitude. I believe the most valuable asset you have in building a profitable online home based business is a positive attitude.
All Decisions Involve Change Management: an insurance case study
Without buy-in, nothing changes. If the group or person deemed change necessary, it would have happened already. So whatever state the status quo is in is the preferred state: no matter what you think is wrong, or how your wonderful solution would make it better, it ain’t going to happen unless the status quo is willing to change. And change means change management is necessary.
Gravity Happens
It's not just dinosaurs that get stuck in a tar pit of gravity. We can all get stuck in our status quo, without even seeing it coming. That's the tough thing about status quo and gravity; they're sneaky. Even the best of innovators can get stuck in gravity sometimes.
The Power of Critical Thinking
In the pursuit of results and accomplishment we are all to often our biggest enemy. We accept and get very comfortable with status quo. Doing the same things over and over again will not create different or better results. However, by using the process of critical thinking you will uncover solutions and actions that will never be revealed by others or the status quo.
Employee vs Independent Contractor
If you own a small business or are thinking about starting one, you will need to have a good understanding of the difference between a regular W-2 employee and a 1099 independent contract. It is usually more beneficial for an employer to have a contractor rather than an employee because the employer does not have to spend the time and effort to do payroll for that worker. Unfortunately, you don't get to just choose which status you put a worker into. The IRS forces you to choose one status or the other based on your relationship with a worker. The more supervision you have over a worker, the more likely it is that the worker should be a W-2 employee. The more independence they have, the more likely it is that they should be a 1099 contractor.
Thriving in a low confidence-high anxiety world
Some people are describing the status quo in much of the world right now as low confidence-high anxiety and I certainly sense this. In my 20 years as a business owner I have never known it to be so tough. Much of what used to work, doesn’t work anymore. I am not in any way depressed however, rather I am excited by the possibilities and results of changing what’s normal. Here are five of my key actions that can lead to thriving in your business no matter what seems to be status quo
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