The Enemy is the Mindset
Posted By Rob Millard - 0 Comments -
One of the most important skills that any strategist needs to master, is the ability to see things as they really are. Skill, you might ask? Not a form of inbred attribute? Something that one is born with? No, it's mostly skill. An instinct that can (and should) be learnt.
An important part of this kind of insight is about being open to more than the mindset that one tends to automatically default to; being aware of and overcoming the blindspots that cloud one's vision and judgement.
Innovation Zen has a post today titled The Enemy is the Mindset, that is well worth a read.
A sound-byte:
" ..... the more a firm is successful solving problems in a certain way or collecting information through certain channels the more the managerial mindset will get reinforced, and the more difficult it becomes to adapt to market changes and technological discontinuities. In order to escape mindset rigidities organizations should try to explicit and challenge them. Managers need to understand that just because their company has been successful doing things in a certain way over the past it does not mean the future will follow alike. Rather the contrary. In our modern economy the ubiquity of change implies that if you keep doing things as you have ever done you can be sure of one thing: failure."
More on this crucial topic:
When Not to Trust your Gut
The Brain Sees What it Wants to See
Confidently incompetent
Trust and Betrayal in the Process of Strategy
Blindspot Analysis - Uncovering Strategic Bias
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