Hello and welcome to Business 300.

My name is Philip Kulenshov and this is 300 Seconds about business.

We're all a busy people, so I have five minutes or less to get my point across.

Five minutes. Let's make it happen.

We've been talking about getting it done, making things happen, getting after them results.

I have four things for you to consider in that regard.

Four ways to lay out how we can go about getting after results.

In the previous episode, I addressed the first one,

competent care. We need to get good at what we're doing. We need to care about it. The second is strategic shrewdness. Result-oriented work is almost never a straight shot. Too many people

give up after the first knock on the door doesn't yield the result they were hoping for. I tried.

It didn't work. They don't think about going around to the back door. Call it thinking outside the box.

Creative thinking, where we figure out a solution that isn't the first one that popped into our

head, is what we have to do to make things happen. Creative thinking is strategic thinking.

If there's quicksand on your path, the solution isn't to stop walking.

It's to find a way around it. You started. You thought this is going to be a three-step process.

Well, it turns out you'll have to take three steps to the left, then forward, then to the right,

before you can be where you wanted. Strategy is finding a way. But also what comes into play here is shrewd timing.

Knockin on the door when no one's home gives you a different result than when everybody is.

Strategic shrewdness is utilizing opportune timing to your advantage. It may be counterproductive

to approach an issue at not the right time. But once it is the right time, you'll need to

take advantage and act fast. As much as we'd like it to be, the world is not black and white.

Not everything is as simplistic as some would like it to be.

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