Remarkable Market force

When I get asked about remarkability I explain how remarkable organizations and leaders operate from a higher purpose and align that purpose with a really focused service design.

I talk about how they attract followers and engage them by making them a part of their cause, and ultimately how their cause evolves into a movement.

At critical mass the remarkable leaders looks as though they are leading a tribe and that the tribe has become actively involved in not only the cause, but also the service.

If you could measure remarkability, and someday I hope to, what you would be measuring is your market force.

You would be measuring the influence you and your brand have, both in terms of audience numbers and it’s ability to cause a desired action.

An individual’s remarkable market force is akin to a stock market price ticker.  Ticking up and down after each transaction as the market assesses how it feels about you.

Whether a person seeks to become remarkable or not, their remarkable market force “stock price” is being set and reset by their market at every moment.

Pursuing remarkability involves a recognition that this is happening and a decision to make sure that the market sees enough value to keep bidding your value up.

The Sport of Business

Coach Greg Glassman, creator of Crossfit, turned fitness into a sport.  He made it measurable, effective and fun.

I want to do the same thing for business. Hey, why not?  We use sport metaphors constantly.  We talk about competition and competitors.

Why not take it all the way?  Why not do what the best athletes do?

Get a coach, select a training methodology, workout together.  Share best training methods, continually hone our skills, cheer each other on, and recognize achievement.

Why isn’t there an ESPN for small business?  Why isn’t there a Remarkable business ‘Games’?  Where is the Olympic training center for business?

This is my vision for the Remarkable Project.  Bring business athletes together, train together under a common vision and methodology.  Bring out the best in each other and ourselves.  Report on our progress and once a year, let’s get together and have our own ‘Espys’ award event.

What do you think about shifting your business success focus to becoming a remarkable business athelete?

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Help me raise the standards of business by pulling together our best to make us all better.

The elephant and the rider

 I love this description of how we operate.

One part of our brain is the elephant.  It’s big and powerful, it runs on emotion and favors short-term satisfaction.

The other part, the rider, sits atop the elephant.  It’s much smaller; it runs on facts and logic and is comfortable thinking long-term.

The elephant is a powerful force when you find an emotional cause for it to pursue.  But it’s a rudderless ship without the planning ability of the rider.

The key to leading your team, your customers and yourself is to get the elephant and the rider aligned.  Fuel the elephant with your meaningful cause and direct the rider with your plan to realize it.

Greatest Generation to the Remarkable Generation

The ‘Greatest Generation’ made its mark saving democracy in World War II and the amazingly productive period that followed it. They truly ran with the tools and opportunity that the industrial revolution provided.

We owe a lot to that generation for making so much possible today.

I can’t help but wonder how the next 50 years or so will be remembered when we get to 2112. Will one of my great grandchildren take over my blog and write about the 2000’s the way that I am writing about the 1900’s?

What will your great grandchildren remember about your contributions?

Will they say that their grand parents were pioneers in the Remarkable Economy who ran with the tools and opportunity that the remarkable economy provided?

Will the generation that takes this new economy to the next level be known as the Remarkable Generation?

I hope so. Not because I like the word ‘remarkable’ but because I hope that we will use the amazing tools and opportunities in front of us to remake the American Dream and shape it into a remarkable Global Dream.