“When competing against respectable adversaries the difference between success and failure, between victory and defeat, is achieving…incremental advantage.”

~Incremental Advantage

Incremental Advantage is that small, possibly insignificant thing that happens when you’re trying to accomplish something. What results is a huge mega effect from that performance that’s way more dynamic than it should have been. In other words, the way I see it is “little things applied consistently can create rapidly dramatic changes.”I was considering this from the Incremental Advantage site as I reflected on my son’s first football game (yeah!).

The score was 41 to nothing and it was so great to see their reward for all the days of non-stop push ups, chin ups, bear crawls laps run in the mud and rain, all the high humidity levels they endured, the zillions of mosquito and no-see-um bites received. It was awesome and I felt so proud of each and every one of them.

Have you ever seen a celebrity or someone else you really admired and thought highly of, only to see an action or hear harsh comments they made that tarnished your view of them?

There are many examples of incremental advantages and disadvantages all around us if we care to look for them. Times when we want to quit with everything in us only to push forward one more time and achieve success, moments when we pay attention to random comments for a change and discover a life altering concept or way of doing business.

View Post Here On the road to success, pay attention to times when a bit of a push might make a huge shift occur in your life. Consider these statistics I found on the Incremental site:

“The act of running 40 yards in 4.3 seconds and running it in 4.4 seconds—a 2% difference—was more than $1 million per year in salary for wide receivers in the National Football League.”

Another entry that caught my eye was “Don’t Be Penny Wise And Pound Finish”, detailing the story of Ross Perot (tycoon) and the founders of Home Depot (adventurers). These recently fired Handy Dan employees sought investment capital to launch a new concept for doing business.

They needed $2 million dollars from Mr. Perot but he refused. Why? Because Bernard Marcus was driving an older model Cadillac and Mr. Perot felt he should be driving a Chevy. Marcus also believed the rejection was influenced by the mustache sported by his partner Arthur Blank.

Who knows what the real objections were. The point is that if Mr. Perot had invested what to him must surely have been a nominal amount of money, he would be worth more than a hundred b-b-b-billion dollars by now.

Lesson learned? Stop focusing so much on the forest that you can’t see any trees.

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