Last week I was invited to a forum to discuss ways to improve the way our Company does business.  We talked for one and a half days about one questions – How can we do things better?  Discussion touched on an array of topics; business unit changes, procedural efficiency suggestions, and new business ventures are a few of them.  While all of these are relevant, a question that was asked in passing had the biggest impact on me – What are some things that you can do without asking permission from anyone?  After the question was asked, the gentleman posing the questions proceeded to ask for some feedback via his twitter account.  Within minutes he had a few responses.  I thought, “What can I do like that?”

Too often we are defeated by the prospect that the things that we want to change or the ideas that we have will not be permitted, but maybe we are looking at things in the wrong context.  There is always something that you can do without anyone’s permission, something that will affect the way that your business operates each day.  Find One!