Is Your Business Held Together with Duct Tape?

I love duct tape. I love WD-40. I love Liquid Nails. I once remodeled a bathroom with Liquid Nails and lots of muscle.

Duct tape comes in very handy around my house. It can hold everything together and WD-40 can make things move easier. Households are a great place to use duct tape. But, should you hold your business together with duct tape or Liquid Nails? Should you grease the wheels with WD-40? Maybe not.

Think about your daily processes and standards. Do you find yourself under the gun and patching things together just to get things done? Do you find yourself placing a piece of tape here? There? At least until you shore it up with cement or super glue? In the words of Dr. Phil, “How’s that working for you?”

I do find myself doing this at times and find that although these are great products for holding things together – it is only a temporary fix. I am working on putting some stronger standards in place. These standards include: coaching with Stacy Brice, an accountability partner – Kathy Watkins, an assessment for potential clients, and a mastermind group. These commitments are helping strengthen standards, achieve goals, and get rid of the duct tape!

I could call these my own version of WD-40 – smoothing the processes and getting rid of the gunk that makes the processes stick. I am seeing progress – which is a good thing, of course. The goal is to recognize the gunk or duct taped process and grease the wheels with WD-40.

What in your practice can use less duct tape?