{"id":1044,"date":"2018-07-23T07:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T07:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2018-08-15T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:02:04","slug":"its-by-looking-outwards-that-youll-make-the-greatest-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/its-by-looking-outwards-that-youll-make-the-greatest-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s By Looking “Outwards” That You’ll Make the Greatest Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently asked by the Principal of a local Hawke’s Bay primary school what I considered the key characteristics were of a person that typically lead to success. The Principal had just finished talking with a student on this topic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I said, \u201cin a nutshell, it is comes down to a person\u2019s ability to\u00a0closely observe the world around them<\/u>, and then their\u00a0willingness to act<\/u>\u00a0as\/ when observed opportunities present themselves, and finally their\u00a0determination to stay doing<\/u>\u00a0the thing which they have committed themselves to do.<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n

I said, “in a nutshell, it is comes down to a person’s ability to closely observe the world around them, and then their willingness to act as\/ when observed opportunities present themselves, and finally their determination to stay doing the thing which they have committed themselves to do.<\/strong><\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

I went on to comment that yes, traits such as confidence, communication and leadership are important; but nowhere near as important as a person’s ability to look outside themselves to observe and understand the world around them – and act on opportunities as they come along.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What I see happening increasingly is business people (students and practitioners alike) becoming more and more introverted (inwardly looking); which is typically meaning that they focus the lion’s share of their time and efforts on fine-tuning operational elements of their business rather than be concerned with thinking strategically.<\/span><\/p>\n

Strategic thought capability (which calls for a business owner to consider the greater world around them) is an essential practice for business survival – without it, businesses tend to repeat doing the same things year in and year out, with successively smaller financial returns being realised each year as competitor activity overtakes them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently asked by the Principal of a local Hawke’s Bay primary school what I considered the key characteristics were of a person that typically lead to success. The Principal had just finished talking with a student on this topic.   I said, \u201cin a nutshell, it is comes down to a person\u2019s ability to\u00a0closely observe the world around them, and then their\u00a0willingness to act\u00a0as\/ when observed opportunities present themselves, and finally their\u00a0determination to stay doing\u00a0the thing which they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}