It is about the Push factor, exponential zone and ultimate secret of success

1. THE PUSH FACTOR
PUSH FACTOR
&
EXPONENTIAL ZONE
The Ultimate Secret of
Success
By
Dr. Stephen M. Sweid
Dubai Dec. 2012
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2. What is
THE PUSH FACTOR?
• The PUSH factor is a major component of your
success system. There are usually some 30
components in the success system.
• Success system is a combination similar to a
KEY (and lock), if one component is missing it
does not work. It is a system approach and
PUSHING is a major component.
• Your success system is coupling with a specific
environment to achieve a specific goal
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3. Success = Healthy Coupling With The World
ENVIRONMENT
Interaction
MATCH
AREA NEEDS
OPPORTUNITIES
YOU / COMPANY
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4. Why Is It That The Turtle, Hedgehog And
Chameleon Do Not Run?
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5. It is easier to Change Yourself
• It easier to change yourself,
and adapt to the world,
rather than to change the
whole world.
• Many tools are available to
help this adaptation process.
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6. Different Systems of Tools:
With Tools There Are No Frontiers to Adaptation to
Environment, including management tools, skills ..
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7. Back To: WHAT IS THE PUSH FACTOR?
• PUSH factor is needed to get the idea off the ground,
i.e. make it happen. The PUSH factor is essential to get
things done, to achieve, assuming all other factors are
available. The PUSH is essential For sustainable success
• The PUSH factor is linked directly to your personal or
organizational DRIVING force to achieve and make
things happen. It is a combination of forces. It is what
motivates you or your organization and its leaders to
stay away from your comfort zone, push your limits
and achieve challenging tasks.
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8. What is The PUSH FACTOR?
• The PUSH factor is needed to get over
difficult obstacles, to solve difficult
problems.
• It is about going the extra mile. As they say,
when the going gets tough the tough gets
going. It is about facing the challenge.
• Push is about focusing your efforts to get
things moving.
• PUSH factor is crucial and is similar to
money, as it can create all other
components, including money and people.
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9. PUSH factor involves all what is available to you to set
challenging things in motion: Your heart, mind, body,
money and other skills and other available resources.
Brain Power,
Logic, Analysis, Specifically,
Creativity,
Communication,
Learning ..
PUSH can
People ..
include
Observation, research,
Research ..
Strength, planning,
Resilience change,
Heart, Stamina,
Adventure, Risk
project
Motion, Taking .. management
Discovery spending,
Other available
Resources and
but also
tools courage,
patience ..
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10. What does PUSH involve?
• The PUSH factor is not about effort only, but more
about EXTRA EFFORT, Pushing the limits, challenging
the unknown and new territory, such as dealing with a
new environment or new situation and conditions,
solving some problems, creating something new etc.
• Most attempts in life deal with the unknown.
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11. We Are Talking EXTRA Challenging
Tasks And Goals.
EXTRA in your PUSH:
You have to resort to extra courage,
extra risk taking, extra effort, extra
patience and resilience, extra
observation and analysis, extra
creative thinking, extra positive
thinking, extra communications
etc.
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12. THE PUSH
FACTOR
What does PUSH involve?
• PUSH can involve a lot of
RESEARCH work and search
trying to discover and find
things, identify opportunities
or leads in a specific new
environment, such as when
looking for a job or project or
doing marketing or buying or
solving a problem, project
management etc.
• Part of the effort is the
learning bit.
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13. The measure of the PUSH Factor:
3 Parameters
1. The quality (Nature) of the PUSH
2. The strength (Intensity) of the PUSH
3. Continuity of the PUSH: Perseverance
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14. MATRIX: Push Versus Difficulty Of Task
Complexity & Duration of Task
Low Medium High
High
PUSH Strength & Continuity
Good Good Good
Chance Chance Chance
Some Might Likely
Medium
Chance Just Work Failure
Might Likely Assured
Low
Just Work Failure Failure
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15. PUSH Versus Difficulty Of Task: ELABORATION
THE PUSH
FACTOR
• Complexity and duration are relative notions, different for
each person and company etc. Someone is used to millions
of dollars while another has never seen 10,000 $ .
• You have to push more than the degree of difficulty, i.e. to
combat it.
• When pushing hard things become much easier after a
short while.
• Some people do not have the stamina or cannot sustain the
push for long.
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16. THE PUSH FACTOR
• There are many setbacks in the
PUSH process, but they are part of
the measure of effort of PUSH,
e.g. the perseverance, research,
and the learning curve.
• Example: Research can be
frustrating e.g. when you do not
find what you are looking for.
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17. Why Push?
Push in each stage of the process, and push to go from
one stage to another in the realization of the idea in
your head, i.e. to reach your goal.
REALITY ON THE
GROUND
IDEA IN
YOUR Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3
HEAD
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18. PUSH Factor To Find Hidden Treasures
Or Even To Create Your Own.
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19. PUSH To Find Your Hidden Paradise, Or
Even Create One
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20. PUSH to Make a Quantum Leap
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21. PUSH to Change On the DNA Level
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22. The Realization Code
• There is a specific intelligent code YOU have to apply to
transform an idea into reality, i.e. into life. This is the
process or sequence of activities needed. It is the
logical bit.
• It is a sequence of intelligent instructions, similar
Planning, Execution, Project management etc.
• Example you want to work on a project. First you have
to find the customer who will give you the project,
then you have to win the contract, then to execute the
project on budget time and quality etc.
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23. The intelligent Realization Code
The code (program) involves the combination of
success system (The thirty components), including
time, i.e. steps, sequence, durations, etc.
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24. YOU have to PUSH
• The whole universe and
galaxies and stars cannot
make a simple idea of yours
happen, not in one million
years!. YOU have to make it
happen. It is your purpose.
• You have to push the process,
you have to apply the code;
there are stages.
• Seldom coincidence brings
the solution.
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25. It is YOU Who Has To Push
• You push from one stage to another,
and within each stage of the code.
• Other missing components can be
covered by other experts, but not
the PUSH factor: YOU have to do it.
• YOU have to deploy the courage,
YOU have to take responsibility, YOU
have to take the risks, YOU have to
fight, YOU have to be patient, YOU
have to think, YOU have to solve the
problem, YOU have to make the
follow-up. YOU have to go the extra
mile...
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26. Yes, You
• In the main, YOU will have to push to make it work, to
transform the idea into reality.
• You have to be very motivated to push and you have to
motivate others to push with you, so that the idea will
happen in reality.
• Even if you have the whole key combination, but you are not
pushing, nothing will happen.
If you stop pushing things might revert to square one.
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27. The right PUSH: Multiple Options
Trying DIFFERENT
things all the time,
and finding out
what works and
what does not
work in a specific
environment, e.g.
finding out the
business practices.
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28. A A
A
A The PUSH is
A
A A not only about
A S A planning and
S strategic
A
A
S S planning etc.
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A G
S A
S
A G
VISION A
S
A
A
G
A G GOALS S
CIRCLE
S S
A
A STRATEGIES
S
CIRCLE A
A
A
A A ACTIONS
A
A CIRCLE
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29. PUSH involves a lot of research
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30. PUSH involves people and References
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31. The PUSH Factor Involves Knocking On
Many Doors
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32. RISK IMPACT Push
MATRIX Minor Moderate Major Involves
Taking
Very Likely Medium High Extreme
Risks
Risk Risk
Risk
3 4
2
LIKELIHOOD
High Zone of
Low Medium
Likely Risk Acceptable
Risk Risk Risk
3
1 2
Low Low Medium
Unlikely Risk Risk Risk
1 1 2
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33. At Some Stage The Success Impact Of
The Push Goes EXPONENTIAL
• >>>>> PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS
GROWS EXPONENTIALLY with YOUR
PUSH.
• Hence if you push double, your
chance of success might increase by
20 fold or even more!
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34. Exponential Response Of Your Chances To Your PUSH
Your
Chances
of
Success
PUSH Factor
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35. The Exponential Response Of
Your Chances
• The probability of success grows exponentially
with the PUSH , i.e. with effort, and not linearly.
This is the great mystery of effort in relation to
success, the great secret revealed.
• If you invest double the effort or time, you will
likely get more than 10 times the result.
• Example you double your courage or risk level,
BUT your chances might increase 20 times...
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36. Exponential behavior
• It can get more exponential, i.e. sharper curve,
with more effort or more intelligent approach,
i.e. SMART PUSH, and the closer one gets to the
target.
• Money makes things exponential too, but the
PUSH factor is more powerful than money.
THE PUSH
FACTOR
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37. WHY Do Your Chances Grow
Exponentially With Your Push Level?
• With pushing new doors open, heralding
new resources and approaches. Suddenly
you find your treasure.
• Exponential because you bridge a specific
gap through the little extra effort and make
a big leap, similar tunnel effect.
• It can lead to multiplier effect, but also
domino effect, avalanche and resonance.
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38. WHY Do Your Chances Grow
Exponentially With Your Push Level?
• It is exponential because it is connected to
logic, e.g. analysis, information, synergy ,
creativity etc. One key information or
deduction can make a great difference, a
breakthrough. Brainwork is essential.
• Because you find out exactly what is needed
or exactly how to sell it, or you find a
potential connection, or you find the clue and
solution, or the missing parameter in the
formula etc.
• There is accumulation with time : Learning
curve and adding value.
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39. WHY do your chances grow
exponentially with your push level?
• There is synergy among the resources and
people involved and synergy is
exponential.
• There is the added momentum : Things
get rolling on their own after a while.
• There are many prospects for
breakthrough changes with some effort.
• Great effort can lead to a quantum leap
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40. Synergy of elements
= Multiplier effect
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41. WHEN Does your Chance Become
Exponential with the Push?
• PUSH becomes exponential when it is
performed with the right combination of
courage, observation and learning, creative
thinking, researching and perseverance.
• >>> Then you get closer to your target and
into the exponential zone.
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42. Maximize Your PUSH to Get There
• To make sure you get to the
exponential zone of the PUSH,
i.e. the breakthrough range, it
is best to maximize the PUSH,
i.e. to push your limits and
perseverance, i.e. and keep
pushing, i.e. continuity.
• You know when it has become
exponential because you start
feeling the MAGIC.
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43. The Closer You Get to the Target, the
More Exponential it Gets!
• It becomes more exponential
when you are pushing closer
towards your target, i.e. it gets
warmer as they say.
• you get more frequent positive signals
when you get into the exponential zone.
You start getting more frequent positive
feedback and WOW effects.
• But you will lose your way many times
before you get to the exponential zone.
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44. Push to the Exponential Zone
Exponential
zone
Your
Target
PUSH
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45. Examples Of The Exponential Zone
• It is similar to when you go shopping. First you have
a look at what is available, i.e. just window
shopping. Then things shape up in your mind and
suddenly you know what you want and start taking
action.
• It is also similar to treasure hunt, where you are
initially far away from the treasure and you are just
exploring and finding clues, then suddenly things fit
together and you home in on your treasure.
• It is also similar to defining your strategy: Initially
everything is possible but then some patterns
appear etc.
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46. You Can Find Or Even Create Your Own
Exponential Zone.
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47. For support in your
strategic quest, your
quantum leap journey:
Whether starting a new
project, or exploring new
territories, or seeking a new
path altogether.
As an international
consultant , researcher and
trainer, I am confident I can
be a very beneficial and
reliable companion in your
journey of discovery.
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48. Dr. Stephen M. Sweid is a business consultant,
researcher and trainer with over 20 years
consulting experience on the international
scene: Europe, USA, Middle East and Far East.
He has involved as expert in technical
assistance projects of international
organizations, such as UNDP, UNIDO, World
Bank, European Commission etc, as well as in
consulting projects commissioned by
multinationals. He is member of a number of
international professional research and
consulting societies. He is currently active in
the UAE, UK, and other locations. His
consultancy focuses on strategic issues,
Quantum Leaping, Innovation and Marketing.
Profile on Linkedin.
Email: sweidsm@gmail.com web: http://www.cinnosys.com
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