What the domino effect means for your results!

The One Thing is one of my favorite books of all time. And in it they talk about the domino effect. For most, playing dominoes is a linear game. You line up one domino after another, you knock the first one down, and they all fall in succession. Here's the problem. The last domino you knock down is the same size as the first one. So yeah, you achieved an outcome, but did you sustain growth? Did you get any big result? Think about if dominoes was a geometric game and every domino you knocked down was 50% larger than the one before it. By the time you knocked down the 18th domino, it would be as tall as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The 31st Domino would be taller than Mount Everest. Think about that. In your business, as you're trying to grow sales or control the budget, what kind of dominoes are you setting up? Are you playing the linear game, just setting up a bunch of activities to get the same result year after year? Or are you playing the geometric game, lining up one big domino after another, one big goal after another, so. So you can achieve the results you never thought were expected? The choice is yours. Choose wisely. Until next time, bear down, focus on the target and strike out the status quo.