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Oftentimes, our own thought process is the largest barrier to achieving breakthrough thinking. We "see" things a certain way and we act accordingly. For some, that action results in the need to spend significant energy in damage control. For others, our thought process results in no action - a paralysis, if you will.
In reality, our thinking style will fall into one of two categories: primarily logical or emotional. You see this all the time. Married couples often contain a mix. Organizations too, have their own primary style. It shows up throughout their internal culture. Neither is right or wrong. In fact, we need both in our organizations as well as our personal relationships such as marriage. But how we process information, and how we react to situations can be improved if we try to find the balance point between the two.
One helpful technique for achieving balance when addressing a situation is to "triage your thought process".
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10% Vision, 90% Alignment |
Greetings!
"WHAT THE MIND OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, IT CAN ACHIEVE."
American author Napolean Hill penned these famous words which often get quoted and debated in personal and organizational circles. The phrase conjures up powerful possibilities and hope that we can exceed beyond our limitations. History has provided much evidence of people who have exceeded normal levels of performance. People such as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Henry Ford are just a few examples of great people accomplishing great endeavors because of great vision, belief and execution.
In both my management consulting and personal LifePlan businesses, I am privileged to assist those looking to accomplish their own greatness. Interestingly, greatness seems to always have the same recipe: vision, belief and execution. In this issue of the newsletter, I'd like to explore the first of those elements - having vision.
I developed this newsletter because I'm passionate about helping organizations and individuals a.) Understand their strengths b.) Have a vision and plan that maximizes their potential and c.) Align their resources in such a way they actually walk in their vision.
I hope you find this to be a helpful resource for your journey!
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Understanding "Breakthrough Thinking"
The person who's had the biggest impact on my understanding of Breakthrough Thinking is business strategist Tom Paterson. Tom, creator of the LifePlanning process, was a running buddy of Peter Druker, arguably one of the most influential teachers and change agents of management theory in our era. During one of my training sessions with Tom, he explained his rendition of how Breakthrough Thinking really happens. Tom actually developed this theory when responding to a client asking Peter how he was able to come up with such great vision in such a short amount of time. Tom's theory on Breakthrough Thinking was birthed as he explained to that client how Peter's mind works. Below are some of my notes and takeaways from my time spent with Tom on this topic.
According to Tom, "Breakthrough Thinking is the result of carrying our thinking to the highest conceptual level." It is being able to envision an entirely new working model and with that, entirely new levels of performance. I run into this often in my consulting business; that is, organizations wanting to create a "To Be": a future vision of how they could operate that would result in new levels of performance. Similarly, many of us are also looking for new levels of performance in our own lives. Not because we are trying to satisfy shareholders, but because we intrinsically know that we can do more. We are not satisfied with the status quo.
But how does Breakthrough Thinking happen?
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Gaining Perspective - A Recap
In the past few issues of this newsletter, I've been discussing the concept of gaining perspective. Perspective is a full, wide-angle view of your life. As discussed in the "Understanding Breakthrough Thinking" article, perspective is the key imperative before going to the next level in thinking. You can't achieve true breakthrough thinking until you have a full perspective of where you are right now, how you got here, and what strengths you can leverage in the future.
Often when I'm consulting with organizations, the perspective step is ignored. Why? Because typically organizations don't want to spend the time and money to understand themselves. They just want to get to the "To Be"; however, without having a full perspective, solutions are often short-sighted and don't deliver the full benefits possible.
Most often, individuals follow the same path. We all want a gloriously powerful vision in our lives but we don't want to do the up-front work to get there.
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I'd love to hear from you on the topics presented in this newsletter as well as other thoughts you have regarding aligning our lives to help us realize our visions.
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Have a great day!
Sincerely,
Ron Swingle
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