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Five Steps to Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset for Your Business

Strategy Driven

For example, if you aspire to be more physically fit, you should start with a simple goal of putting on your running shoes several days in a row. Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? ” According to Clear, successful habits are developed gradually.

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Time to Level Up

Strategy Driven

While you many not enjoy spending hours going through the books, you know where everything is and you’re on top of the finances. Get a great team behind you and see how quickly your business begins to flourish with everyone working together to achieve your goals. But is that really good enough?

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Action Questions

CO2

The situations I asked about were operations, finance, staffing, marketing, strategy, town hall meetings, one on ones etc. What can I do to help you achieve your goal? Action + persective = Innovation with movement. If you are in a brainstorming meeting leave action questions outside the room and move to knowledge questions.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business Review

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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To Innovate, Think Like a 19th-Century Barn Raiser

Harvard Business Review

Their goal was to erect a massive, multi-structure barn for a neighbor. Ask people who have participated in the platform, and they will tell you that the community they built in the process of Kickstarting turned out to be more valuable than the financing they received. farming communities, accomplishes several things.

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How Your Leadership Has to Change as Your Startup Scales

Harvard Business Review

They set out a broad vision, provide lofty goals, and model an ambitious work ethic (for recent college grads, it’s not a big leap from “all nighters” to “all weekenders”). Align employee and business goals. Don’t get me wrong — Daniel’s intentions are good.

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Managing the Double-Edged Sword of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Collaboration across departments or units of the same company will likely be a good thing only if managers set up the conditions for what Morten Hansen — citing Procter & Gamble's collaborative innovation as a prime example — calls " disciplined collaboration." This includes getting buy-in toward a common goal.