What Self-Made Billionaires Do Best
by Howard
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Tuesday, 03 February 2015
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Published in Agility, Articles, Community, Competitiveness, Continuous Improvement, Creativity, Excellence, Innovation, Leadership, Lifelong Learning, Opportunism, Risk Management, Vision
25% of self-made billionaires were fired from established companies early in their careers.They don’t just generate results. They produce breakthroughs.
by John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen- for Strategy + Business Magazine
Habits of the Producing Mind:
As a rule, large organizations do a poor job of distinguishing between high-profile roles that require a top professional skilled at optimizing a known space (a performer) and roles that require one skilled at redefining or disrupting that space (a producer). If your company is performer-centric, all successful activity looks like performance, and all roles look like performers’ roles. You may be wasting your best producers in jobs better suited to performers.
Even if you recognize that you have a role that needs a new, innovative approach, how can you identify employees who have the producer abilities to handle it? Step one is to understand and recognize the 5 key habits of mind that producers share
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