Monday 17 July 2017

Do we discourage or encourage innovation?

Today’s business and social environment tend to put a very negative view on failure to the point that many people feel ashamed. In many cases, businesses and people hide any failure to avoid the stigma that is often associated with it. Still, business and society expect success and people to have experience at everything. Furthermore, businesses and society expect plenty of innovation. I wonder, how people will risk doing innovating things, making any changes to improve, try original approaches, etc., when there is such a burden… Imagine, an environment where people is encouraged to try to innovative approaches and new ideas, where everyone involved learn from what it works and what did not convey the expected results. Furthermore, imagine a place where people look at what did not work and find other ways in which it can be useful… I wonder…
Wednesday 05 July 2017

What is success about?

A successful business and a successful person are more about knowing how to consistently and effectively manage problems, challenges, conflicts and mistakes than doing everything right.
Tuesday 04 July 2017

Innovation and processes/systems

I wonder why people tend to make innovation and processes/systems two mutually exclusive areas. I can relate that innovation is about change and I also understand the processes/systems is about a set of steps to consistently deliver a pre-defined outcome… I wonder how much more productive a business could be if we were to refer to innovation and processes/systems as two inter-related areas in which processes/systems provide the structure to produce a consistent outcome while innovation is consistently and constantly looking for way to improve processes/systems…
Monday 03 July 2017

Changing without change?

We all want to be something and we work toward becoming that something. One of the biggest barrier we have, maybe the biggest, is our own thinking. We must learn to think like what we want to become. If we want to be a millionaire person, we must think like a millionaire. If we want to be successful in business, we must think like a successful business person. If we want to… I wonder, how is it that many people want to become something else, while they keep doing the same thing they have always done and thinking the same way? How is it they want to change without changing anything? I wonder…
Wednesday 28 June 2017

Achievement: Purpose, outcome

It is amazing how much we can achieve when we have a clear purpose and outcome. For example: It always amaze me how much I get done the day before I go on holidays… Purpose: Be free to go on holidays; Outcome: Finish all my work.
Tuesday 27 June 2017

Striving for success?

I find amazing that people work so hard to be successful without trying to be of value and fail to achieve success. A much simpler approach, that often leads better friends and provide more fulfilment, is to strive to be of value. Once you are, success will follow.
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