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Work through the above questions - once you have the answers, the potential should be intuitively obvious. If you don't have clear or definitive answers for any, keep at it until you do!

6. Is the customer's passion about their need/problem + the value you are adding over alternative strong enough to attract customer $ or attention? No easy way to know but you REALLY need to have a gut sense that the answer is YES. Customer needs to be open to an upgrade.

5. How important to your customer as defined in Q1 is the value that you are adding? (e.g. cherry-scented Advil doesn't add much value compared to a solution that works 50% faster than next best)

4. How specifically are you adding value over your customer's current best alternative in Q3? Be specific. (faster, more convenient, cheaper, better quality, etc). Best if this is verifiable and not just your opinion.

3. How does your customer currently accomplish the answer to Q2? (makes you think most broadly about the competition bc it's not always direct)

2. What is your customer trying to accomplish? (complete a task, solve a problem or serve an emotional need, such as for entertainment) - this is called the use case

1. Who is your product or service for? (describe your customer in detail - demographics, psychographics, behavioral, attitudinal, etc) Hint: it's not 'everyone' when you're starting out. Need to be clear who you're relevant to.

To determine if your business idea has legit potential, ask yourself - or determine the answers to - the following questions (either by research or hypothesis, if you can be objective!) #smallbusiness #entrepreneurship #startup #businessideas #networking #businessadvice

Job-seekers: don't be put off by employers who expect 5 years of work experience for an entry-level position. This kind of messaging suggests they don't have much interest (or expertise) in developing people. #jobhunting #employment #jobsearch #peopledevelopment #people #HR

Organizations move forward more quickly when we learn to distinguish between problems and their symptoms. When you identify a symptom (e.g. sales are down), keep asking yourself 'why' until that question is no longer useful! #leadership #productivity #management #problemsolving

Serious question for Twitter: how many times do we need to click on "see less often" before we see less often? Asking for a friend.

To the companies that complain about lack of available talent: have you considered that the top 10% of performers migrate to the best companies to work for? Be that company. #recruiting #culture #talent

"Employees should just..." is simply not effective leadership. Wishing and hoping for certain behaviors just doesn't get you there. Take it upon yourself to cause the outcomes you want by using all the motivational tools at your disposal. #leadership #culture #changemanagement

A rather troubling thread. Reconciling public support for LGBTQ+ communities with anti-LGBTQ+ political support behind the scenes. #PrideMonth #equity #inclusion

For those of us grinding this week: What's your favorite type of #meeting ?

Yes!!

Overcoming the barriers to running efficient #meetings does not involve tips, tricks and education, but instead it's finding the cheat code to get employees to actually use these insights on best practices.

So much great content and perspective shared on the (business) world we need to create. More conversation needed on how to actually get there.

Want more engaged employees? Before you consider gamifying the process to mostly drive vanity stats, consider first doing these two things: 1. Provide meaningful work 2. Be an awesome company to work for #employeeengagement #culture #leadership