The ART Triangle: A 3 Part Model For Success

Posted on May 12, 2010 | 0 comments

Each day businesses are run and results are produced on the actions of people. However, in order to produce intended results within the desired timeframe, a specific set of actions taken in a particular sequence is necessary.

Actions produce results. Actions take time. Results occur over time. The ART Triangle is a great way to solidify these principles in your mind.

Let’s take a closer look at each of three key parts of the ART Triangle and how you can leverage the concepts to improve your productivity and performance.

ACTIONS: In order to produce results in the shortest amount of time you must pay close attention to your actions. There exists a set of actions that will produce your intended results in the shortest time possible. However, if you perform other wasted actions or fail to leverage the power of outsourcing and delegation it will delay how quickly you are able to achieve success.

TIME: The actions that you perform take time. Taking on every action within your business may prove that you are superwoman (or superman) but it does very little to leverage your time. Instead, you should seek to build your business systems and position yourself so that you perform tasks that are aligned with your core expertise and talents. Look to delegate to a team member or outsource to a third party provider any actions that you hate to perform or simply take too much of your time. Build your systems and then leverage them.

RESULTS: There’s a set of results that you seek to achieve through the actions that you perform. Have you ever felt as if some people consistently produce results when you feel like you cannot seem bring anything to completion? Those people have the same number of hours in their day as you do. So what gives? The difference is that those other folks have identified the necessary actions to produce the results that they intend to produce. They have also expedited their results by ridding their plates of actions that others can perform as well or even faster than themselves.

So are you consciously aware of the actions that you should be taking in order to produce your intended results as fast as possible? If not, start today to change your approach. Otherwise, tomorrow you’ll go about your day performing random actions and choking off your own success.