Opportunity Thinking vs Results Thinking

A look at a select few companies and a comparison of Opportunity mindset vs Results driven mindset of leadership teams. Jamie Dimon is a classic example of Results driven mindset. Larry Ellison is a classic example of Opportunity driven mindset. Both leaders have a leading edge of systems thinking. They seek answers…

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Disciplined vs Systematic

Disciplined vs Systematic mindset of leaders in a select list of companies. A sample of 22,500+ leaders (titles include Director, President and/or Chief). No wrong or right answer. Each company needs different mindsets to operate in the environment they are in. Too much can serious impact performance. For example, too…

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Ability versus motivation of the customer

I have been thinking about customers in terms of their motivation. You can connect that concept to their personality traits. One person’s personality might look at a ‘job to be done’ as very hard to accomplish while another sees the ‘job to be done’ as easy. Maybe, an example is…

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Measured performance in an uncertain world

In reference to the above, when you’re going through this cycle the goal should be to learn more, have clear ideas that are based on quantifiable expectations of underserved needs. This allows you to build precisely. By doing these things ahead of time you will speed up the process. The code will go a…

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Does geography & profession impact personality?

Whenever you’re  researching a market by geography, there will likely be a limited set personality traits based on functional characteristics of your Market. For example, imagine doctors that live in a certain region of the United States. I found that in discrete areas there were three primary traits of doctors…

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Data-driven decision making without data

How do you make decisions when the data does not support what you intuitively know. Data-driven decision making is a great idea and it works really well when there’s stability. But how do you deal with things when stability doesn’t exist? There is always a lack of perfect data. Those…

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The personality of your customers in each state

Each State has a variety of personality types. Some States have more types than others. If you look at the distribution of types of personality by State you have to wonder how this translates to your business? Do you have this same diversity by State? It turns out, likely not….

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