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Donald Mitchell's Articles in General Business

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  • Accomplish 20 Times as Much by Avoiding Misconceptions That Misdirect Your Efforts
    Organizations are hobbled by beliefs that have always rested on faulty evidence. This essay aims to help you identify and check the critical assumptions your organization is relying on.
  • Are Your Words Failing to Help You Accomplish 20 Times More Improvements?
    Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That’s a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall, the most harmful bad habit you can have for delaying improvements. This article explains how you can be sure you are being understood.
  • Avoid Complacency to Accomplish 20 Times as Much with the Same Time, Effort, and Resources
    After you achieve a 2,000 percent solution, complacency can become a problem. This article looks at creating more beneficial economic relationships between organizations and their beneficiaries, customers, employees, suppliers, partners, shareholders, lenders, and the communities in which the organizations operate. Serving this wider, more successful population will, in turn, continually open up more ways to achieve additional exponential gains.
  • Be Sure You Are Understood Before Going Forward and You Can Make Progress at 20 Times the Usual Rate
    Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That’s a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall. This essay explains how you can be sure you are being understood.
  • Challenge Your Disbelief in New Possibilities to Break Through to Exponential Improvements
    People usually underestimate the potential value of the most important new information, technology, and ways of operating. This error occurs because the new information or resource unexpectedly makes untrue what has been undeniably true in the past. This essay looks at ways to seize advantages by appreciating the importance of new factors sooner than other people do.
  • Choose the Right Service Hours to Draw More Customers and Beneficiaries at Low Cost
    Many organizations operate nine-to-five, Monday to Friday, without considering whether different hours might be more attractive to customers and beneficiaries. This article explains the value of reconsidering the hours and scheduling of the people who provide products and services.
  • Coin More Profits with Business Model Innovation
    Business model innovation can make a business more or less profitable by changing to whom, what, and where offerings are provided in the search for much larger volume of sales. This article shows the opportunities and pitfalls of these alternatives.
  • Conduct Your Organization in Ideal Ways to Make Beautiful Music
    Near-perfect performances are delivered by organizations all of the times. When we look closely at those examples, we can distill principles that can be used to guide near-perfect performances by our organization. Combine these principles into a new way of operating, and you'll soon have a breakthrough in effectiveness. This article shares two examples of how these breakthroughs can be accomplished.
  • Creating Breakthroughs
    Teams make most improvements. This article looks at how you can go from making ordinary improvements into accomplishing breakthrough, exponential progress by selecting the right team and leader.
  • Dangerous Beliefs Hurt Results and Deny 20 Times Greater Accomplishments
    Dangerous beliefs lead to harmful actions. This article identifies several dangerous beliefs and describes how to locate other such beliefs and eliminate them so your organization can accomplish 20 times as much with the same time, effort, and resources.
  • Develop Better Thinking to Turn Problems Caused by Irresistible Forces into Profitable Opportunities
    Irresistible forces are only a problem because we have bad thinking habits about how to relate to the forces. This article describes what irresistible forces are and encourages readers to identify their bad thinking habits and eliminate those habits.
  • Eliminate Bad Habits that Delay Accomplishing 20 Times More with These Seven Questions
    Bad habits and incorrect thoughts waste a lot of time and effort. To achieve 20 times more with the 2,000 percent solution process, you need to identify and eliminate such bad habits and incorrect thoughts. This article describes seven questions that will help you make the necessary eliminations.
  • Eliminate Harmful Traditions and Establish Helpful Ones to Accomplish 20 Times More
    This article shows you how to eliminate harmful traditions while establishing new, helpful ones. As a result of becoming more effective, you can have the time to work on developing processes to accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources.
  • Employ Nth Degree Thinking to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    Probe fo potential to increase benefits and decrease costs is selecting 2,000 percent solution opportunities to accomplish 20 times as much with the same time, effort, and resources.
  • Expand Your Sales by Exponential Leaps and Bounds
    Most organizations make slow progress in growing because they don't understand the thought process that leads to faster expansion. This article lays out the key elements of making such more rapid improvements.
  • Find the Ideal Route for Profitably Making 20 Times More Available
    Business model innovation involving who you will serve is critical to expanding sales profitably. This article looks at the critical elements of providing such success and provides a quantitative example.
  • Focus on the Fastest Ways to Accomplish 20 Times More
    Lord Keynes once pointed at that in the long run we are all dead. Achieving more is most beneficial when it occurs rapidly. This article contains an example of how this principle might be applied by a publisher to accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources.
  • Hesitate to Procrastinate to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    When danger from action is much greater than the danger from inaction, organizations are wise to take time to assess the situation before acting. Unfortunately, the reverse is usually true. Many organizations act as though their lives are on the line over situations where virtually any action will be rewarded compared to inaction. This article shows you how to determine where immediate action is wise and how to gain more benefits.
  • Hold Your Nose and Poke into Opportunities Others Avoid to Make 20 Times Faster Improvements
    Our senses are finely tuned to reject anything that looks, smells, tastes, feels, or sounds different than what we prefer. In an increasingly complex and diverse global environment, organizations run the danger of overlooking great opportunities right under their noses and in front of their eyes because the opportunities do not fit the conventional ideal.
  • How to Find and Implement Fast Solutions for Accomplishing 20 Times as Much
    We all want to make fast progress, but often don't know how. These questions will help you find and implement the fastest routes to making your breakthrough imporvements.
  • Identify Harmful Traditions that Keep You from Accomplishing 20 Times More
    This article examines the most powerful cause of complacency: the unquestioning certainty that nothing will change or should be changed. That certainty is encouraged by peaceful repetition over many years. You will learn how to identify when tradition should be challenged and abandoned for the good of the organization.
  • Identify the Future Best Practice and Measure It to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    This article is a call to set objectives and plans beyond the best of what someone will soon implement as tomorrow’s best practice. The articler will show you how to identify what the world’s future best practice will be.
  • Imagine Ultimate Perfection to Shrink Your Work Week to Two Hours
    If you could accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources, you could finish your current job in two hours a week. Does that strike your fancy? If so, the key step in finding such productivity breakthroughs is identifying the maximum result that can be achieved with reasonable risk and resources, far beyond merely exceeding tomorrow’s best practices. This essay shows you how to identify that ideal maximum result.
  • Join Irresistible Forces: Don't Fight Them
    Most businesses are constantly buffeted by forces outside of their control like weather, the economy, changing government regulations, currency shifts, and new technology. This article explains that this problem requires hitching one's wagon to take advantage of the forces rather than fighting against them.
  • Keep Your Feet to the Fire . . . Even If You Have to Start the Fire Yourself
    Complacency steals most of our potential. This article looks at how you can create a more stimulating environment that will unlock that potential and give you the ability to continually make breakthrough improvements.
  • Leapfrog Years Ahead of the Competition and Accomplish 20 Times More!
    This essay shows how to exceed the best of what someone else will introduce as tomorrow’s best practice in five years. It shows you how to move way beyond tomorrow’s best practice in a timely and cost-effective way.
  • Let a Better Mix of Offerings Grow Your Profits
    Mix of offerings is more important to profitability than many business people realize. Mix affects sales volume, profit contribution, and costs of operations and overhead. This article explains how to look at optimizing the combination of these factors in making mix changes.
  • Look Ahead to Get Ready to Accomplish 20 Times More
    This article will show you how to identify what the world’s future best practice will be in five years so you can set your targets for performance well beyond that level and accomplish 20 times more.
  • Look Beyond the Status Quo to See the Possibilities to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    This article looks at ways to seize advantages by appreciating the importance of new factors sooner than other people do.
  • Look Past Negative First Impressions to Locate and Gain Golden Advantages
    Many unappealing places and things harbor untapped opportunity because everyone avoids them. This article encourages you to investigate past your first reaction to find out about what you've been overlooking.
  • Metaphors for Achieving Irresistible Growth
    Most organizations do well when the market environment is gentle. But let the harsh winds of change arrive, and the organization huddles to avoid their influence. The irresistible growth organization will make good use of all environments. This article provides two metaphors to explain how that result can be accomplished.
  • Obliterate Bureaucracy to Speed Up Improvements by 20 Times
    Work processes that needlessly involve people cause your organization and its stakeholders to suffer from delays, misunderstandings, high costs, and minimal effectiveness. Organizations should eliminate the bulk of these work processes and then simplify what remains. These changes free time and resources for more valuable tasks.
  • Opt for Strategies Like Warren Buffett Does
    Irresistible forces tend to make progress slow. But if we embrace the forces by anticipating their potential effects, we an employ strategies that always put us ahead by using the power of the forces.
  • Overcome Harmful Traditions That Delay Improvements
    Age-old traditions cause us to develop the most deeply ingrained habits. Even when conditions change so that these traditions are harmful, most people will keep following the traditions anyway. In this article, you find out how to identify where traditions are harmful and how to establish helpful new traditions that reinforce helpful directions.
  • Overcome Stalled Mind-Sets That Keep You from Accomplishing 20 Times More
    This article shows you how unproductive attitudes turn into habits that waste your time and keep you from achieving your full potenetial. You will learn how to identify those attidudes and change them for better ones. As a result, you can begin to build positive, new habits.
  • Pave an Unstoppable Path to Breakthrough Success
    Unless you prepare a sound roadbed, the road you lay will soon become unusable. Preparation for creating breakthroughs teaches the same lesson: Getting organized in the right way determines your success. In addition, preparation builds confidence that you will succeed . . . helping create the breakthrough.
  • Profitably Expand the Scope and Concept of What You Do Now
    Most businesses and nonprofit organizations focus on too narrow a way to serve customers and beneficiaries. They should look around to see what else might be done that would be very efficient to offer at low cost that people want.
  • Pursue Enthusiasm Down the Most Fruitful Paths Towards Flawless Performance
    Achieving perfect performance is often desirable but traditional carrot-and-stick approaches aren't sufficient to achieve that result. This article proposes using enthusiasm, better communications, and a better redesign process to approach perfection.
  • Questions to Help You Pick a Focus to Accomplish 20 Times as Much
    Anyone can accomplish 20 times as much. But to take most advantage of that capability, you need to pick a worthy target. This article presents diagnostic questions that will focus you in a great direction.
  • Questions to Identify the Performance Area Where Improvement Will Create the Greatest Benefits
    This article provides questions to help you identify the best solution to focus on to create the most benefits for customers and greatest growth for your organization.
  • Review Measurements Three Times Before Measuring Twice and Cutting Once to Gain 20 Times More
    Measurement helps you achieve the most when focused on your organization’s most important processes and most valuable opportunities. This essay shows you how to decide where to apply measurements, what to measure, and how to use measurements to achieve exponential improvements.
  • Save 95 Percent of Your Time and Effort with 2,000 Percent Solutions
    You can accomplish 20 times as much with the same time and resources, or the same results with 1/20 the time and resources. This article describes examples of how these effectiveness-improving results have been accomplished.
  • Select Offerings to Expand How Much Value You Add
    In thinking about serving customers or beneficiaries better, it's important to appreciate the operational implications for costs of adding new offerings. This article contains a quantitative example of how choice of offerings can help or hurt operating efficiency.
  • Stop Acting Based on Misunderstandings about What's Going on and Accomplish 20 Times More
    This article aims to help you realize the need to identify and check the critical assumptions your organization is relying on.
  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Focus on the Best Measures
    Measurement helps you achieve the most when focused on your organization’s most important processes and most valuable opportunities. This essay shows you how to decide where to apply measurements, what to measure, and how to use measurements to achieve exponential success.
  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Repeatedly Focus on the Same Improvement Opportunities
    This articler develops ways to create mutually beneficial economic relationships between organizations and their beneficiaries, customers, employees, suppliers, partners, shareholders, lenders, and the communities in which the organizations operate. In this chapter, we see how repetition of process improvements steps builds a powerful new habit that can be the foundation for continually expanding exponential success.
  • To Accomplish 20 Times as Much, Understand the Value of Measuring Performance
    The losses caused by bad habits (stalls) that prevent rapid progress by accomplishing 20 times as much with the same time and effort can be overcome by having measurements that your organization understands, pays attention to, and knows how to respond to. This article explains how to create a universal understanding of designing and using measurements to eliminate stalls and point the way to more rapid progress.
  • To Achieve 20 Times as Much, Implement Beyond the Future Best Practice
    This article is an excerpt from The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution and shows you how to accomplish 20 times as much with the same time, effort, and resources by exceeding the best of what someone else will introduce as tomorrow’s best practice in a timely and cost-effective way.
  • Use Practical Perfection Practice to Deliver the Two-Hour Work Week
    With 2,000 percent solutions, you can get all your work done in two hours a week . . . or you can accomplish much more by working more than two hours weekly. This article explains how to draw productivity lessons from thinking about where people routinely do things almost perfectly.
  • What New Uses and Adjustments Will Greatly Expand Sales of Your Offerings?
    Offerings are often designed inside the imaginary head of an engineer, technician, or other technical person. The real world is often quite different than expected. Look to the problems and solutions that are already going on to find ways to improve your offerings and usage.

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