Always Be Collecting Data

Always be collecting data and perspectives; always be connecting the dots you ave gleaned from these data points and perspectives.

Always Be Collecting Data

• “Always trust your client—and cut the cards.” Weinberg’s Sixth Rule of Trust
• Always be collecting data.
• Always be collecting multiple perspectives.
• “Always Be Collecting Data” The rule of ABCD
  • “In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data” attributed to W. Edwards Deming
  • Possibly a riff on “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash”
• In closing… “‘A,’ ‘B,’ ‘C.’ ‘A,’ always, ‘B,’ be, ‘C,’ closing. Always be closing.”
  • from Blake’s speech in Glengarry Glen Ross (screenplay by David Mamet)
• Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” Paul J. Meyer
• The best way out is always through.  Robert Frost
• https://www.gapingvoid.com/information-vs-knowledge/
• try to put some numbers on it
• Kelvin quote

Always Be Collecting Dots, Always Be Connecting Dots

Dots are information. The more information you collect, the more frequently you can make meaningful connections that can make other people feel good and give you an edge in business. Using whatever information I’ve collected to gather guests together in a spirit of shared experiences is what I call connecting the dots.

If I don’t turn over the rocks, I won’t see the dots.

If I don’t collect the dots, I can’t connect the dots.

If I don’t know that someone works, say, for a magazine whose managing editor I happen to know, I’ve lost a chance to make a meaningful connection that could enhance our relationship with the guest and the guest’s relationship with us. The information is there. You just have to choose to look.
Danny Meyer in Setting The Table

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“ABCD simply means Always Be Collecting Dots so you can Always Be connecting Dots.  Some people would rather call dots data, but when I talk about a dot, I’m talking about a morsel of information that matters to you. And if it matters to you, then it better matter to me. Because if I want to matter to you, I’d better care about what’s important to you.

Danny Meyer in “Invest Like the Best Ep 203” starting at 14:31

Image Credits: Hugh MacLeo (GapingVoid)

• https://www.gapingvoid.com/information-vs-knowledge/
• http://kerfors.blogspot.com/2016/05/awesome-graphic-as-graphs.html
• https://www.gapingvoid.com/want-to-know-how-to-turn-change-into-a-movement/