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Better Business Through TV

Tom Peters recently posted some great thoughts about the TV show House and how it relates to business performance.

At a gut level I have felt many of the same things when watching the show and Tom articulates them very well. A few of the best lessons that can be learned relating to business are:

All the problems that House deals with are out of the ordinary with no clear solution (sound familiar to your business?)

The biggest difference in how he executes compared to most people in business is that he is performing against the very immediate possibility of the patient (business) dying.

People all tend to act with urgency in these situations - the key is keeping a cool head and still acting with urgency.

The other key is to constantly work with the same urgency even when death is not imminent. It is human nature to work harder to survive than to thrive. House even demonstrates this in the way he deals with his own problems. What if we all worked as hard on thriving as we do when our survival is tested?

Posted by David on October 7, 2006 05:37 AM|Permalink

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