Visionary and Scientific Approach to Business
As important as physical exercise is to one’s health, keeping your mind fit and toned is just as important, to help you on the road to success. Maintaining a wide enough perspective and being able to recognize changes in business and the marketplace are critical to doing our best.
In fact, the most successful business leaders have a balance of Visionary and Scientist.
According to LeAura Alderson: “Successful entrepreneurs, CEOs and Leaders have the ability to imagine grand vistas of possibility, while seeing the roadmap there, and the close-up scientific approach down to the smallest aspects along the way.
“This ability to see broad and narrow… floodlight and laser, whether you’re a CEO, a stay-at-home mom, or Steve Forbes, exercises the brain via contraction and expansion, expands our horizon of possibility, and sharpens our vision.”
So whether you’re an “intrapreneur”or “corpreneur” aiming for a promotion, or just want to stay on top of your game, these mental acuity exercises from Forbes.com can help keep the gray cells toned and healthy.
These two quick perspective shifts are examples of an important entrepreneurial skill.
A Flight Overhead
The first exercise is to visualize yourself and your business from above – physically visualizing your surroundings as if lifting up in the air overhead. Expand your perspective up, up, wider, bigger, macro.
Look at your business from the 50,000 foot view and see how it looks.
If we were talking about this perspective shift with regards to a sailing ship, it would be taking your perspective up and away from sea level and looking at it from airplane level. How is it different from up here? For one thing, you see less of your ship and more of the environment that it is in. Chunking Up further… what can we imagine?
The Microscope
To continue the sailboat analogy, Chunking Down would be looking at how barnacles clinging to your hull increase friction and drag, causing you to travel with slightly less velocity. The chunking down methodology is critical for achieving operational excellence. From a business perspective, it is the process of deconstructing all of the details of how you touch your customers and optimizing all of the little pieces that matter – and judiciously leaving the pieces that don’t matter undisturbed.
These two quick perspective shifts are examples of an important entrepreneurial skill: The ability to see ourselves and our businesses from multiple perspectives.
For the cost of a few moments, and a measure of mental flexibility, new perspectives and insights are there for the taking, and a necessary part of your entrepreneurial routine.
Source
Forbes.com article, by Kevin Rady
Bronwen Bartlett is a freelance writer, children’s book author, virtual agency director and performing bellydancer from South Africa. When she isn’t bent over a keyboard, frantically crafting articles and stories, or touting the benefits of moving away from traditional offices into virtual spaces, she can usually be found hiking a mountain with her partner and their dogs, or trying to master rib-cage isolation patterns. You can follow her personal blog or her company blog. Her first published children’s book, Callum and the Tiger, can be found on Amazon.