Nicholas Bate

Six September Strategic Steps to Success: 6: Dignify

1: Clarify
2: Simplify
3: Unify
4: Amplify
5: Electrify
6: Dignify
Now give your passion the time and attention and respect it deserves. It is you after all. It's what you are, it's what you do. And it is the route to your success. Dignify.

September Strategic Steps to Success: 5: Electrify

1: Clarify
2: Simplify
3: Unify
4: Amplify
5: Electrify
Electrify. Get passionate about what you want to do and let that passion rip. Don't worry about the cynics in the team. Work to win them over, step-by-step. Don't worry about the snide remarks about 'what's s/he on?'. Do it with passion or pack it in. Why would you want to do it any other way?

September Strategic Steps to Success: 4: Amplify

1: Clarify
2: Simplify
3: Unify
4: Amplify
Amplify: make more of what you are good at. What are you good at? What do you enjoy? What gives you a buzz, a real sense of satisfaction? Build that. Really build upon it: amplify it. Sure, fix any critical weaknesses, but maximise what you have. Amplify.

September Strategic Steps to Success: 3

1: Clarify
2: Simplify
3: Unify
Unify: join the dots. What are the connections in your work? What are you really about? People? Words? Problems? Politics? What are the connections in your Life? Travel? Places? Books? Consider the dots. And consider what joins them?

September Strategic Steps to Success: 2

Simplify. Your desk-top. Physical or virtual. Your filing. Your schedule. The things your kids attend. Your finances. The garage. Simplify. Your Life.

September Strategic Steps to Success: 1

Get clarity. Take a walk. Hole up somewhere for a day or two. Go fishing, hiking or camping. Book a coach. Read a book, go on a course or change job. Do whatever it takes. But get clarity. Of what? What's important to you. All else will follow.