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Inputs and outputs

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We often focus all our energies on our daily outputs, on what we are ‘shipping’ and productivity.

The ‘factories’ of the world are besotted with output whether that is widgets, content, ideas, or hot air.

The missing focus is on input.

What goes in, is typically what will come out!

What inputs do our employees get? What inputs are we taking in?

What influences are we, our teams, and the business exposed to? What is shaping our culture? What are we learning? How are developing our skills to improve our creations?

Instead of looking at how to output more, maybe it would be better to first look at what is being inputted, and perhaps more importantly, how do we improve the quality of the inputs to match what we desire to output?

What if?

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What if?

Often we say those two words after something has or hasn’t happened. ‘What if I had got up earlier?’, ‘What if I had only said….’, ‘What if we had spent more time listening to her’, ‘What if….’.

The fact is we didn’t get up earlier and we were late, we didn’t say that thing and we missed out, we didn’t listen to someone before it was too late.

We are always analysing the past and playing out scenarios in our heads to see how things could have played out differently. It is a waste of time, as it’s an outcome you can’t alter.

Rather than ‘what if…?’ we decided to say ‘what can I do to change?’.

Changing ourselves is the key to better future outcomes and a good deal less of ‘what if?’.