10 ways of achieving excellence ? 1. Believe in yourself - You cant take action until you believe in yourself enough to handle the consequences of your decisions.You become accountable for your actions. 2. Embrace risk as your best friend - Risk becomes your best friend when you give birth to an idea. If you can accept this fact you will approach the process with a lens that keeps your dreams and ambitions in perspective and on track. 3. Be extremely patient - Compromise is a choice, not a sacrifice. Take time to understand how things work. Most people are too anxious to get their desired results and thus start to make bad decisions as they go. 4. Learn how to sell your vision - Converting your idea to a reality requires you to help others understand your vision. Selling vision is much like selling change . Selling lofty ideas without understanding how it will achieve financial results will never get you the right audience . Simplicity is the key to selling the vision for your idea . Making it easy for someone on the outside to understand what you are trying to accomplish will create engagement and increase your probability for expanding buy - in for your idea.This skill comes into play when selling to possible investors. Learn how to sell your vision sooner than later. 5. Connect the dots along the way - Everything is connected to something else . Learn how to spot the paths of connectivity along the journey. What may be your core idea today can mature into something bigger as you connect other tenets that naturally associate with your idea along the way. 6. Be passionate with your pursuit - The pursuit of excellence requires you to unleash your passion. When you put your passion into everything you do, it gives you the power to become a pioneer. Your ability to remain passionate about what you stand for is the ultimate enabler for the success of your idea. 7. Be purposeful - Your intentions for your idea must have purpose and meaning. If not, ypur probability to quit along the way will increase.It will also increase the likelihood of you psyching yourself out with unnecessary excuses. 8. Focus on building momentum - Stay focused, stick to your plan, eliminate distractions and neutralize the noise. Building momentum has a lot to do with timing and the management and deployment of resources. every resource counts. Know when and when not to use them so their value is optimally utilized at the right place and time. 9. Always make the idea better - Never grow complacent. You can always expand upon your idea and make it better. When you begin to see how the dots connect, challenge yourself to make your ideas even better. This is what Steve jobs dis with apple, Pixar Animations and apple again. Continuous improvements were part of his legacy. He never stopped thinking of ways to make his ideas better. 10. Make work/life balance a priority - Take the time to make work /life balance a priority. It will give you greater clarity of thought and help you keep things in perspective. Successfully converting an idea into a reality is a marathon, not a spirit. Pace yourself so that you can reflect upon the mission at hand. Always be aware of what you are attempting to accomplish. Dont overwhelm your mind; give yourself some breathing room and allow your creativity to expand. CONCLUSIONS : Innovation is all about hard work. It consists of 90% transpiration and 10% sudden inspiration (THOMAS EDISON). Establishing measures of innovation for predicting success requires better understanding of the innovation process. Business already have some measures of innovation, including revenue growth, number of innovations and investments- but so have proven insufficient in accelerating innovation and achieving excellence in innovation. Starting with a few, but effective measures, of innovation sets the right foundation for maturity of the innovation process.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:34:24 +0000
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