One big reason for taking history classes and reading books on historical events is to gain some proven wisdom and learn from past mistakes.
Successful leaders tend to share the common trait of being clever and adaptable with how best to use available resources to reach their goals.
The best leaders balance their grand ambitious vision with caution and an attention to details.
"The fox knows manay things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This time, the hedgehog represented a highly-driven and single-minded leader, while the fox represented someone who's cautious and sees all the obstacles in their way. With this analogy, it became apparent that the best leaders had a healthy mixture of both fox and hedgehog characteristics. Those leaders at the extreme ends of the spectrum were either too cautious or they failed to see the big picture. So, the ideal leader is part hedgehog and part fox—they can assess all the different angels while still being able to take determined action.
Throughout history, there have been power-hungry leaders who've gotten carried away with their grand ambitions. But we've also seen powerless yet clever leaders who've managed to realized their ambitions despite their shortcomings.
By making a realistic assessment of the skills they do have, a great leader can devise a plan that utilizes those skills to reach their desired goal.
Adaptability brings stability.
Focusing too much on short-term gains can work against long-term ones.
There's no exact formula to being a successful leader, but history is full of examples that show us the best ones keep their attention focused on a big end goal while seeking out a number of options to help realize it. They stay adaptable in order to navigate around totally unpredictable situations, without letting these potential problems derail their grogress.
Reading Content: The design thinking playbook Michael Lewrick
Thinking & Reflection.
Keep up the design thinking mindset and start hunting for the next big opportunity
The design thinking mindset including :
1. Focus on the people: we focus on the human being, build empathu and are mindful when exploring his or her needs.
2. Driven by curiosity: we are curious, open, ask WH question continuously and change the perspective in order to look at things from various sides.
3. Accept complexity: we explore the key to complex systems and accept uncertainty and the fact that complex system problems demand complex solutions.
4. Visualize and show: we use stories, visualizations, and simple language to share our findings with the team or create a clear value preposition for our users.
5. Experiment and iterate: we build and test prototypes iteratively to understand, learn and solve problem in the context of the user.
New mindset, New Paradigm, Better Solutions.
Co-create, grow, and scale: we continuously expand our capabilities to create scalable market opportunities in a digital world and in ecosystem.
With varying mental states: as the situation requires, we combine different approaches with design thinking, data analytics, systems thinking, and lean start-up.
Develop process awareness: we know where we stand in the design thinking process and develop a feeling for the groan zone to change the mindset through facilitation in a targeted way.
Networked collaboration : we collaborate on an ad hoc, agile, and networked basis with T-shaped people, and U shaped teams across departments and companies.
Reflect on actions: we reflect on our ways of thinking, our action and attitude because they had an impact on what we do and on the assumptions, we make.