What could you do differently this year, as CEO, to improve the performance of your business?  

30th August 2006

When you think about improving the performance of your business, don't think about the functional and focus areas within the business, think about yourself, and specifically, what you do .

Keep it simple and focus on just one of the things that you do as CEO:

If you changed how you think , could it improve the performance of your business?

• Do you think about the short term or the long term?
• Do you consider what's going on outside your company in the bigger picture of the market, or do you think mostly about what's happening inside the company?
• Do you think about your customers?
• Do you try to think like your customers and think about what challenges and problems they need to resolve?
• Do you ever think about whether your staff are happy and fulfilled in working for your company?
• Do you ever think about how things could be better?
• What do you think about most ?
• Do you use important questions to inspire your thinking?

If you did, could that have a positive impact on the performance of your business?

Pick any two of these questions, or any of your own, to think about differently. Over the next month, see if that results in some new outcomes that could positively impact business performance in some way.

As the CEO, thinking is a core part of what you do, so the better your thinking processes and the more challenging your questions, the more benefit to the business.