E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

It appears that I will be taking a break from blogging for a while. Don’t worry new stuff is being cooked up, it’s just that I will not be able to publish it for a while. Thank you for sticking with me. I promise, eventually, this site will once again be busy with updates. Many blessings.

Training program for airline pilots is long, rigorous, has many levels and requires passing many exams and practical demonstrations. Aside from supervised and unsupervised practice in simulators and on smaller aircraft in differing conditions. Airplane also has a consistent set of controls and feedback mechanisms.

Surely, piloting a large business is no less complicated, than piloting an airplane, and in some circumstances at least as dangerous. Do you think business training measures up? Are you interested in making it better? If so, send me a private e-mail and we will talk.

I have been thinking about ingredients of excellent performance and have arrived at combination of ability*motivation*ability to learn*ability to maintain and increase motivation*selection of the right direction*ability to adjust direction or approaches as needed. It is starting to sound a lot like personal version of the Excellence Matrix: ability will tools approach target feedback constraints goal.

Did I miss anything?

May the Lord grant me these things in 2012:

1. Find fellowship with God and men in my new place of stay.
2. Joy in the birth, health and life of my son.
3. Health and peace for my honey wife and I and our household.
4. Become very knowledgeable in the sciences behind performance coaching, get to know the best and the rest.
5. Stay learning, growing and succeeding at work.
6. Living my own life according to the tools that are being baked in to Excellence Matrix.
7. Solid progress on Excellence Matrix website. First regular participants, by the end of the year.
8. Start having fun with Tai Chi again, and find good work out partners.
9. Figure out how I can get back to the joy of working on Plurality Forever.
10. Co-write a series of blog posts, with Casey on lessons of Tai Chi for business.

This has been an amazing year for me:

1. First year of married life is behind us, and with our first child on the way, 2012 looks all the more exciting.
2. Excellence Matrix is moving along, with a diagnostics website that is up and running in Beta, next frontiers: personal Excellence Matrix, incorporation of perception mapping, task prioritization, desired vs. actual gap assessment, and many more things to make it one stop shop for anyone who wants to work on performance improvement for their business and for themselves.
3. I am now working at one of the most awesome companies I have knowledge off, making a difference and learning a ton.
4. It was my first year of study of Tai Chi and I am grateful for lessons in awareness, listening, balance, flexibility, coaching that will hopefully spread to all other areas of my life.
5. I had an opportunity to really see both the strengths and limitations of TRIZ and semantic technologies while working for Invention Machine.
6. Not for profits that I have helped champion have grown gang-busters: School Factory, where I continue to serve on the board is now up to 8 chapters; StartupAccelerator - that began as four of us talking about a forum for aspiring entrepreneurs to mingle, has gone regional, with 9th event happening on the 21st; SAS Paintball Club has gone international with couple dozen chapters around the world.

I am sure many other worthy things happened in 2011, but what I am really looking forward to, is my goals and plans post for 2012.