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The TRIM TAB Concept Essay: Maximum Impact with Maximum Ease

By Philip Duane Johncock

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”

--Zig Ziglar

Last month, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks encouraged a group of leaders to try on an intention that she has found particularly useful in her life: “maximum impact with maximum ease.”  Personally, for the last few years, I’ve intended to generate “maximum impact with least amount of effort.”  Listening to Dr. Hendricks, I decided to replace ‘least amount of effort’ with ‘maximum ease’.

 

Here, I’d like to begin this essay with two examples of “maximum impact with maximum ease.”  The first is personal.  The second is an observation of the development over time of curriculum and training of the Hendricks Institute.

 

From these two examples, I plan to introduce the analogy of ‘trim tab’ as a way of conceptualizing “maximum impact with maximum ease.”  I plan to provide several ‘trim tab’ examples that serve as case studies for this concept that I may consider for future doctoral research.

 

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