Ten Steps Ahead: What Smart Business People Know That You Dont

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So, getting to work is your goal. You have a number of potential strategies at your disposal:. You weigh these up and make a decision.

Tactics would be the smaller steps which make up that strategy; which roads will you take and how fast will you drive. The most well-known uses for strategic thinking are in politics, warfare and the business-world. You had to get involved in politics or warfare and make potentially deadly mistakes in order to learn. Luckily, we know have a myriad of resources from which we can learn and practice to think strategically. Chief among them is chess. You can get by to start with by planning one move at a time, but if you want to compete with the best, you need to be able to plan 3, 4 moves ahead.

Chess masters are able to plan a full game of moves in their head to position their opponent where they need them to be. As with politics, business and war, in chess in each you have an opponent that you are trying to bait and outmanoeuvre. This is why looking into chess strategy is a great primer on the subject.

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Thinking two-steps ahead of everyone else is a very valuable thing to be able to do. The first step with forming any strategy, is knowing the environment. The first step is to learn everything you can about your opponent. The most important aspect of understanding your opponent is having an idea of how they will react to certain situations. Once you know this you can set up a chain of events that lead the person in exactly the direction you want them to go.

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With chess, naturally this means examining every previous game that the other person has played — strategic thinking is easy but time consuming and takes a lot of mental energy. This way you can lead you opponent into thinking they are reaching their goal, while you are secretly working against them. In business this would include things like pricing, promotion style, distribution channels and positioning.

Map out their actions, paying attention see what they all have in common — this however generally only works for companies that are good at implementing their strategies.

Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us

A company advertising their products as premium and high-end but having lowest prices are in-congruent and show an inability to carry out their strategies. Turns out anyone can be a visionary.

We just have to work on a few characteristics and Calonius explained them really well. Overall an awesome read that was great at holding my attention and accomplishing what Calonius set out to show us.

Feb 18, Chrystal rated it it was ok Shelves: Got this free from Goodreads. It's an advanced copy. Some parts were really good and some were really boring. Feb 23, Vicki rated it really liked it Shelves: Erik Calonius has done us all the service of interviewing an array of incredibly successful business people,analyzing the lives and choices of key visionaries among us, then comparing his findings to the latest research in brain function.

The results are surprising. The folks he has observed: Steve Jobs Apple , Richard Branson Virgin Galactic Airways , Walt Disney, Edwin Catmull the guy who developed the Pixar movie concept , and many others, have developed a pattern to the way they think, mo Erik Calonius has done us all the service of interviewing an array of incredibly successful business people,analyzing the lives and choices of key visionaries among us, then comparing his findings to the latest research in brain function.

Steve Jobs Apple , Richard Branson Virgin Galactic Airways , Walt Disney, Edwin Catmull the guy who developed the Pixar movie concept , and many others, have developed a pattern to the way they think, moving from one idea to the next level, imagining what the next step might be in a particular pattern, envisioning what has not yet occurred and then working to make it happen. Calonius delves into the way neuroscience has discovered that the brain works, and it also is very dependent on patterns.

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Most of us can't recall a long list of numbers, but have memorized countless series Our brains look for patterns to help us to remember things we have studied or witnessed. We probably think more like those visionaries than we give ourselves credit for Calonius looks at the impact that various elements of vision have had on the successes these business leaders have experienced.

He has chapters dedicated to Intuition, Courage and Luck, among others, and then ends with a most interesting chapter, "Can You Learn Vision? Remember when phones had cords, when one computer filled a room? Somebody believed there were future possibilities and worked to make them happen. Think about the tools you use, the methods you follow to get your work done.

Ten Steps Ahead - What Separates Successful Business People from the rest of us

How could it possibly be more efficient? I do think we can all get better at this!

Calonius has written a very readable treatise about some incredibly interesting folks who truly walked ten steps ahead of the rest of us, and then convinced us that their's was the path to follow toward a better future. Feb 13, Rena marked it as to-read. Aug 14, Carma Spence rated it it was amazing. You can read my review of the book here: Jul 07, Terri Alpert rated it liked it. A competent repurposing of existing material, both the author's and that of others.

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