1.    Rule of Momentum –   Initiate swift action, overcome inertia, and embrace the power of momentum in both business and personal decisions.

ROM underscores the critical importance of taking the first step to overcome inertia. Waiting for perfect information or succumbing to paralysis can impede progress. The key is to initiate action swiftly, even with minimal information, to gain the advantage of momentum.

Reflecting on my experience managing sales teams in Indonesia and Vietnam, the analogy of holiday seasons disrupting the powerful momentum of large organizations comes to light. After holidays, restarting these large entities proved challenging, resembling a sequential start-up where each piece overcame inertia and gained momentum, akin to the stages of a missile launch.

This principle extends to our personal lives, where the weight of decisions and the small circle of individuals involved can also be paralyzing. The "Rule of Momentum" underscores the importance of taking that first step promptly, ensuring progress and avoiding stagnation.

2.    Delegate, Delegate, Delegate – Transform your leadership—embrace delegation's transformative power, shifting from micromanagement to strategic empowerment, and watch as agility, synergies, and visionary leadership unfold.

Ever faced the micromanager maze? The one who stamps approval on everything, creating organizational traffic jams? Enter delegation, the game-changer.

Delegation isn't mere task distribution; it's strategic prowess. In non-delegating realms, chaos brews, critical thinking nosedives, and mistakes snowball. Contrast this with the delegation dance—a symphony of agility, quick decisions, and empowered teams.

Here, decisions flow seamlessly, fostering a culture of continuous course correction. Momentum builds, synergies emerge, and leadership crafts visions.

Delegation's impact is not linear but exponential, turning management into a force multiplier. It's a leadership journey—from doing to managing to leading—focused on entrusting tasks, developing teams, and higher-value work.

Delegation isn't a task offloading; it's transformative leadership. It's recognizing that true leadership empowers others for collective achievement. Unleash your teams—delegate, delegate, delegate.

3.    Wok vs Clay Pot Thinking – Explores the differences in quick decision making and long-term consideration. In Chinese cooking the Wok is a staple in every kitchen, and in some form or another the clay pot is there. One cooks at high temp, the other low, one requires a skilled hand at the wok, the clay poot less so. They are opposite in so many approaches except preparation and planning.

This leads to how to “cook” the problem, idea, etc. Is this something you can make an obvious quick decision on, all the facts are there, outcomes known, nothing changes in 24/48/72 hours? Make the decision, done. Something more complex, needs more careful thought, deeper thinking, impact is large and long term, best to put these problems, ideas in the back of your head in your sub-conscious, let it work on the solution in the background while you work on other stuff.

Many times, in life and business we find ourselves in Wok Think mode. We are just banging out one decision after another, just three ingredients are all we need to make that decision and move on, fast order cook. Move the organization forward, all the parts moving.

We need to find those ideas and find the time to generate to see ideas worthy of letting fester in the brain. In the sub-conscious. As you go through your day, week and month, the subconscious scans and grabs and adds to the file related your clay pot idea, still in the oven. All the ingredients need to make the decisions, and the timing is right, the idea is cooked, and you will find it popping back up in a conversation, a news article, a strategy discussion.

4.    Power of Failure – Embrace the "Power of Failure" as a transformative force—monetize setbacks, learn from each challenge, and propel yourself forward with the self-perpetuating energy of resilience and discovery.

The "Power of Failure" intricately weaves together the various facets of failure to illuminate its value. One compelling perspective is to monetize failure by establishing its relationship to eventual success. When metrics are understood, failure can possess its own relative value.

In my early sales career, selling calculators door-to-door in Los Angeles, a seasoned sales veteran had quantified the cold call rate, rejection rate, closing rate, average sale, and average commission. He broke it down to the value of each "door handle" turned, earning him 25 cents. This monetization of failure propelled him forward, turning setbacks into self-perpetuating energy, laughing all the way to the bank.

Failure, in essence, is a symptom of learning. It serves as a catalyst for discovering new approaches and understanding oneself and those around. Moreover, failure is embedded in the concept of momentum. Failing forward signifies active, engaged learning, exponentially increasing the value of each setback as it brings us closer to resolving challenges.