Saturday, September 29, 2012

Can we transform ourselves in entrepreneurs / innovators?


I believe we can. Inner transformation is possible.
 
For that you need to develop two qualities:
Ø  Empty mind, to unleash clarity, vision (freedom to choose);
Ø  Open heart, to unleash strenght, decision (the power to decide).

Mainly, you have to let go of:
1) thoughts - everything you believe in (truths, concepts, structures, systems) and
2) emotions  (anger, attachment, ignorance).

Thoughts produce a full mind (it causes blindness - mental blindness).
Emotions produce a closed heart (it causes weakness).

Blindness because we are ignorant (a full mind is a limited mind): we look but we don’t see.
Weakness, because we are ruled by desire, we are slaves of anger and attachment.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Lean Thinking is sustained by Inner Thinking

Lean entrepreneurship is essentially another form of management (management of start-ups).
Lean intrapreneurship is another form of innovation (lean innovation).

That is, the lean entrepreneur/innovator applies a different type of management style that recognizes:
·         the uncertainty of the process of taking a new idea into the market, and
·         the need to change and adapt and develop a stream of constant innovation within the start-up / existing company.

To be able to deal with uncertainty you need an “EMPTY MIND” – vision (freedom to choose).
To be able to change and adapt you need na “OPEN HEART” – strength (power to decide).

Until you know everything in life,
all you can do to make life clear is to decide”.
Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist Master