I’m not a big fan of cutesy sayings. But I was watching a promo video for an educational program designed to revolutionize your company. It’s an old video I found cleaning some junk so the program is probably obsolete.

However one of the testimonials was interesting. They guy said they don’t undertake any program unless it meets the Three S’s (which this one obviously did in his opinion). His 3 S’s along with my explanations are below.

Significant – why bother making major changes if it’s not possible to have a significant impact? Little changes? go ahead and do them all the time. But big ones, better have a big payoff.

Sustainable – We all know the “flavor of the month” style of management. If it won’t be something you can integrate into the company culture, and build on over time, it’s probably not worth the effort.

Safe – What if it doesn’t work? How much time, effort, money have you lost? Is it possible you’ll give up things that produce real results, in exchange for a promise? And if that promise is unfulfilled, what’s the possibility you’ll end up worse than you started and can’t get back?