Leaders learn to create big picture thinking mindset

In this article -we will learn

-What is big-picture-thinking mindset and why it is important to each one of us

-30 questions for business-leaders must ask and work-on - to become globally-admired and respected organization - through developing and cultivating strategic thinking

-79 immutable steps for all the INDIVIDUALS, leaders, business-heads and professionals to create big-picture-thinking for your organization, society-community as well as yourself

Big picture thinking - dreaming strategically and realizing your vision - seeing and creating the big-picture of your life.

As a Business-Leader as well as an individual-entity irrespective of your situation and background- You can create a superbly-beautiful, superior-quality and blissfully-fulfilling life - by choosing to train yourself to consciously and sub-consciously work on sharpening your big-picture-thinking.

Big-picture thinking helps you utilize your capabilities and potential more effectively and creates exceptionally high growth.

Essential-mandatory-immutable part of big-picture thinking - is implementing and executing your plans and persistently keep-on till you accomplish your goals.

Big picture thinking is the ability to come up with ideas, solutions and possibilities to create opportunities - take risk to venture into unknown - and also pivot when things don't work out as you had anticipated.

Big-picture thinking is - dreaming big which have the most powerful-resonating WHYs for you - creating strategies and tactics - and then implementing them plus persistently follow-through till you achieve whatever you were dreaming of.

Without executing your plans - you just cannot develop big-picture thinking-mindset.

Big-picture thinking has emphasis on taking many small-small actions every day - while keeping your dream in the backdrop for inspiration, course-correction and bouncing-back.

Big picture thinking is for each one of us - irrespective of your professional-social-hierarchical-family status - and not only for the top leaders of organizations and countries

Although in this article major focus is - on making business-leaders very effective - more effective than they are.

30 questions for business-leaders must ask and work-on - to become globally-admired and respected organization - through developing and cultivating strategic thinking

• 1.Why does your company exist
• 2.What are your organization's fundamental goals
• 3.What are your organization's-values and what values can be imbibed to make it a future-focused organization
• 4.What type of culture it has today and what type of culture is needed in future for exponential growth
• 5.Why your clients are your clients today and keep doing business with you
• 6.How can you make your clients bring more clients - by acting as your best marketing resources
• 7.What is your differentiating proposition and positioning in the mind of your customers
• 8.What specific words you would like them associate with your brand
• 9.How can you create a niche fully owned-controlled-dominated - so that your brand spells what you stand for
• 10. In future what else you need to bring to the table that would sets you apart from your competition very-very clearly in the mind of your clients and prospects
• 11. What vision-mission-goal corrections your organization needs
• 12. What are your strategic priorities - right-now - short-term - long-term
• 13. What strategic-changes you need to make - so that your organization accomplishes its goals more effectively
• 14. Are your current strategies helping you to achieve what you want
• 15. Are you aware of the hidden as well as emerging trends in your business-field as well as in other businesses global-level
• 16. What best-practices you can borrow from the global leaders - in your field as well as in completely unrelated fields
• 17. What types of competencies your organization needs to develop to make you vibrant-learning-trendsetting-disrupting-transforming organization
• 18. Do you have the best talent - if not - how can you attract-recruit-retain them
• 19. What can you do to make your best talents deliver optimum and excellent performance
• 20. How can you engage all your employees meaningfully to make your vision a reality
• 21. How can you engage-involve and make your customers participate and help you grow
• 22. What value-proposition that you deliver now and what could make your value-proposition to all the stakeholders - totally irresistible
• 23. How can you create this type of value-proposition - without making it finically losing proposition - because all value addition have cost elements which shoots up the cost of acquiring-retaining-adding customers
• 24. What are your competitive advantages - how can you polish them
• 25. But most important - what are your weak spots - which are making you lose your market share and customers - what can be done about it
• 26. What strategies the new entrants using to get their share of from the business-market-pie -what you can use yourself out of these innovative strategies -after customizing to your situation
• 27. Are you meeting the major needs of your clients - are you delighting and giving more than your customer's expectations - how can it be done
• 28. How your customer views your organization and its products - is it what you want them to retain - if not - what is that you want your customer to associate with your brand and how can you do it
• 29. What leadership qualities - you need to inculcate - to lead from front - if you manage to get talent who are exceptionally better than you
• 30. How can you create a dynamic, vibrant and learning-innovating-disrupting organization to create a benchmark

79 immutable steps for all the INDIVIDUALS, leaders, business-heads and professionals to create big-picture-thinking for your organization, society-community as well as yourself

• 1.Practice to train your mind to see beyond the everyday decisions-making - to enable you to gauge the implications and consequences of your actions and decisions -effectively
• 2.Big picture is not only about - thinking and dreaming big - but also having informed guess about - what would be the impact of your actions in long and short run as well as the ripple effect.
• 3.What you will do - if a great-idea of your fails because of the external factors, influences and changes - which are say beyond your area of control
• 4.How do you get back into running - in case nothing goes as per your expectations and plans
• 5.Train your brain to incorporate the complete cycle of dreams-plans-actions-improvement-improvising - in this order to make your plans-strategies-tactics - MECE [mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive]
• 6.Identify and discover the most powerful WHYs - for doing anything that you want to
• 7.Identify and go for the most-important among your major priorities
• 8.Declutter your mind to clear the nonessentials, insignificant and minor-issues - from your thought-focus
• 9.Learn to avoid information-overload - by focusing only on information that matters - neglecting what is of no big-consequence
• 10. Challenging and correcting - your assumptions and perceptions - to be able to accommodate - newer-different-disruptive ideas and perspectives
• 11. Becoming open-minded to listen to - the opposing views of your team, your customer, your competitors as well as your vendors and suppliers etc.
• 12. Becoming flexible to imbibe ideas which are not yours but are better than yours
• 13. Copy and borrow ideas - from everywhere - not just from your own field or circle
• 14. Accept that whatever challenges you are facing - someone is solving them more effectively - identify, get-connected and learn from these people
• 15. Look for possibilities - by exploring beyond what is obvious to you right-now - you may find much better methods-process-ideas-solutions-answers
• 16. There are always many more possibilities and options than you are able to see now
• 17. Look for ways and methods that give you sustainable results
• 18. Always consolidate your success-level - before moving-on to bigger-picture
• 19. Avoid do many-things and making multiple big-changes
• 20. Always think of how to improve and make it more efficient and effective - in whatever you actions you take
• 21. Analyze every failure and mistake and create processes so that you don't make similar ones again
• 22. Go for ridiculous and silly ideas - many of the great businesses in this corona times and earlier - are founded on this concept only
• 23. Even during fire-fighting phase - schedule maximum time for quadrant two of urgent-important matrix - that is focusing on what is most-important but not-urgent
• 24. Make yourself and your organization a learning entity - an innovative and trendsetting role-model
• 25. Start learning and playing strategy games - where your moves are based solely on checkmating the challenge you are facing and the long-term end result
• 26. Let go of the less important details in order to see the bigger picture
• 27. If you're too detail-oriented - you may miss addressing major but hidden problems and also some opportunities.
• 28. View your situations from the position and perspective of your end users, customers, competitors and shareholders
• 29. Sit and do for GEMBA walk concept - focused thinking - - all by yourself PLUS have challenging conversations with people who are master of their domain and subject matter experts
• 30. Ask yourself -what are you trying to achieve - and how are you going to do it - are there different ways of doing it
• 31. All the time observe-learn-customize ideas from all over
• 32. Learn to flip defeat-failures-mistakes - into victory
• 33. Learn how to have more fun and enjoy whatever challenges you are trying to solve
• 34. Get used to finding opportunities in setback-problems-challenges - this is the quintessential basic-requirement for big-picture thinking.
• 35. Ask for advice - but be beware of biased advice - take your own decisions
• 36. Big picture vs. Detail-oriented thinking - while you are organizing your business - a balance of big thinkers and detail-oriented people are needed to ensures that ideas-plans-strategies are executed-implement
• 37. Creating a balance between your big-picture vs. Detail-oriented thinking - would allow you to identify-recognize-encash - opportunities and trends
• 38. Empower your employees to have a culture of creating ideas, solving problems and making themselves as well as your organization future-ready
• 39. Take risks - using both - solid-data as well as your intuition
• 40. At times of great-uncertainty - use your intuition and gut-feelings - but till that time polish your this sense by using it as much as you can
• 41. Fail but course-correct immediately after incorporating the lessons learned
• 42. Create mental-frame to come up with solutions to existing as well as potential obstacles and challenges fast
• 43. Learn to take decisions and take full responsibility for your decisions-actions-consequences
• 44. Train yourself to think-big, see big-possibilities and get excited about the ideas - then involve and create buy-in from your entire team to create and implement the dynamic strategies and tactics
• 45. Before going big for any new idea - test them real-time with real users
• 46. That is why you need to have people who can come with ideas-solutions-answers on one hand and a team which not only is good at creating precise-action-steps but also how to implement-execute-manage-organize the details
• 47. As a business-leader - your major focus have to be on becoming a big-picture-thinking-visionary but also ensure that these ideas get executed
• 48. Big picture thinking is - making sense from ridiculous-uncertain-VUCA[volatile-uncertain-complex-ambigous]-disruptions- and creating a vision that converts into big-opportunity
• 49. Try to create a mindset to think of doing even the mundane everyday chores - in a way that shots-up your productivity manifold - then see if this can be converted into business-idea or can be monetized
• 50. Use your past failures-mistakes-regrets to find what lessons you can apply to give much wonderful outcomes
• 51. Involve your people in all the above exercises - to get the benefit of opposing and challenging views and ideas as well as solutions
• 52. Ensure that you live what you expect your organization to stand-for and that your vision has full buy-in from your all stakeholders
• 53. Find ways to involve all your stakeholders add value to your vision
• 54. Make every one understand the difference between - wastages-investment-expenses-cost
• 55. Make your people implement - the 6-sigma concept to identify-minimize-reduce-eliminate all wastages
• 56. Learning and updating competencies are the most valuable investment that you can make for yourself, your people and your organization
• 57. Understand that - strategy without execution is meaningless and execution without engaged people is impossible
• 58. Big-picture thinking also involves - thinking global yet acting local
• 59. If your big-picture looks too huge - seek right partnerships and collaborations
• 60. If you find yourself - having more than you can handle - delegate-postpone-eliminate the insignificant to focus on the most-important
• 61. Create successor for all the critical roles
• 62. Make meritocracy absolutely non-negotiable
• 63. Maintain transparency in communication and learn to be in touch with the shop-floor or ground-personnel
• 64. Excellence has to be your word - for everything that you, your people and your organization do and go for - shun-mediocrity
• 65. Be a maverick- break the existing norms-rules-methods-process - to crate benchmarks and high-standards - but ensure that you don't break any law
• 66. When going for big-changes - implement bite-by-bite - in small-small changes
• 67. Help everyone - become better - create leaders
• 68. Hold doors open for others - be modest
• 69. Do the right thing without othering about being unpopular - but don't harm anyone in the process
• 70. Experiment-try new things
• 71. Be generous - give others what you can and what makes you feel great
• 72. Create a balance between your personal-professional-business-social-family life
• 73. Have fun and spend time with your loved ones - take vacations and breaks regularly and together frequently - this non-negotiable
• 74. Make your self-care a priority
• 75. Plan for sustainable growth and not short-term gains
• 76. While converting your ideas into action-plans - ask yourself - the strategy you have in mind - will it give sustainable solution to the business problems you are facing today + what additional resources you need to ensure your plans gets executed effectively - like funding, personnel and technology
• 77. Create-build-nurture networks and relationships
• 78. Help others see their big-picture too and then relate how your big-picture can make their big-picture a reality too
• 79. Create and participate in creating a meaningful-powerful-positive difference to help make this world a better place

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