July 30 – Are you strategically starving? Is what has worked in the past no longer reaping the same results? Have you tried various initiatives and feel like you have run out of ideas? Are you so focused on what others are doing to succeed that you cannot focus on what will be best for you to succeed? Do you feel as though you have run out of options? Is doubt creeping into you psyche because of feeling stuck?
The best lives lived have an underlying strategy that aligns with purpose, core values and a clear vision. Clarity affirms commitment. Commitment empowers confidence. Confidence ignites momentum. Your roadmap to success begins with you knowing what you ultimately desire and being empowered with momentum building decisions guided by clear choices.
Take an MM&I Moment to awaken to how to ignite your strategic mindedness for momentum building decisions. What insights do you need from others to dispel assumptions with facts? That data do you have at your disposal to reveal patterns, trends or opportunities? Do you have a peer group you can gain intel or industry perspectives? What are you seeing happening around you and how could you think differently related to possibilities or opportunities? Have you reviewed deeper into why a particular initiative was successful for strategic insights? Have you considered having an organizational audit for insights to strategic opportunities that you are not seeing? There is not a day that goes by where you are not learning something more than you knew before. The most strategically exceptional businesses consider how they can continually improve, raise the bar, and think differently. The most strategic leaders embrace the unknown with a meticulous focus on a continual flow of answers, insights and ideas.
Wide Awake Quote of the Week
“Strategy is about making choices, tradeoffs; it’s deliberately choosing to be different … The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” – Michael Porter
Yours in dreaming wide awake,
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