Block of Innovation
Dependent on Discrimination is your ability to innovate yourself and motivating those who you lead on how to innovate. What are the steps?
o Continual Improvement policy: nothing should remain static
o Innovation,
o Quantification,
o and Orchestration
Curiosity is the driving force to finding a broader meaning to things. If the person isn’t curious, he will see the problem (or task) as it is, but when person is curious, he will try to find more different dimensions of the same thing. It’s like a person in search of truth; while majority of the people are satisfied living the life they are living, the curious people are demanding more out of life. It’s like what Islam does to an individual? When a person submits to Allah in humbleness, he is freed from a constricted view of this dunya to the expansive view of this dunya and the hereafter. Or you could be like these rebels, who are simple fed information and you accept as it is without questioning the different dimensions of it.
Often times we will rely on what we know, and hope that will get us through anything. Ego says that you already know what is best. With your ego, you think you know exactly what you are doing; you believe in your decisions and are confident about them. Then, why do 80% of the businesses launched fail in the first five years? Why do 80% of the products launched never succeed? Why are 50% of the decisions forced upon other team members? Why is it that managers feel more and more confident in their decisions, but 60 to 70% of those decisions fail?
Principle of self improvement endows you to gain more knowledge, constantly improve yourself and add value to yourself by increasing your potential. The more potential you have, the greater the results you can produce. How?
Ever used a screwdriver to hammer in a nail? Here’s my definition of strategy: to utilize the best tool for the task at hand. Here’s my definition of effective strategy: to have enough tools in your tool box, so that you can find the right tool for the task at hand. Your tools are very limited if you rely only on your personal experience. When you learn, you pick up tools from the experiences of others. Learning is not limited to school and books and teachers and professors, but actually listening intently to others to learn from their experience, to learn for their view points and how they see the problems and solutions to those problems.
Excellence comes with competency, spend some daily time studying. Become an expert at what you are doing. Become an expert parent and learn the things you need to learn to raise super heroes. Become an expert spouse, and become an expert in relationship and love. Become an expert in your career, and you’ll become important to the company. Become an expert in your in your business, and customer will give importance to you. A lot of competency is common sense, problem is … it’s a muscle that is unused by most. A lot of people go through experience without gaining wisdom, and all it takes is to reflect on that experience. What is one skill that you need to pick up to achieve your results? How can you go about attaining that skill?
Creativity isn’t hard. Empower your questions. Thinking is a process of asking and answering questions. Just like all other habits, we get into a habit of asking the usual questions. What would happen if we start asking more insightful questions? Just stop thinking like everyone and you’ll be a genius – that’s how children think: it’s called divergent thinking. Creativity allows you to be flexible. This is where you could run into a potential “failure”. But leaders don’t think “failure”; it isn’t found in their dictionaries. It’s only re-strategizing; what else can I try now to achieve my goal. Write down 10 ways you can achieve your goal.