If the potential employee would salt the food before tasting it, Mr. Ford would not hire the person. The reason?

Before Henry Ford would hire anyone for an important position, he would have lunch with them. If the potential employee would salt the food before tasting it, Mr. Ford would not hire the person. The reason? Salting the food before tasting it indicated the person would implement a plan before testing it—ergo, no job. Test everything. It’s simple and the payoff can be enormous. It’s not at all unusual when you test and compare the effectiveness of one approach against another for the superior approach to outperform the inferior one by as much as ten or twenty times.

Until you start testing different responses and performance levels, you’re leaving massive potential on the table.

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