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Bringing back Curiousity to Your Brand and Business

I took my cat to the vet last night, and as always I love to learn, so was asking the vet about the treatment. To my shock he turned round and said "Stop being curious, you don't need to know that is my job!"

Wow, is that the world we live in....do we live in a world that shuts down curiosity, that shuts down learning. I hope not and I would urge people to develop curiosity - beat the curiosity shut down and break free into a world of expanded knowledge. To be lead you need a wide perspective, then the ability to filter and decide. Never shut down that childlike quality of curiosity...curiosity is what takes a brand, a team, you forward.

Here are some phrases that I think any manager should be using BEFORE making a decision. Yes, your job is to MAKE the decision but curiosity develops a better decision, a decision based on a wide perspective.

  • I wonder what would happen if....
  • What if we were a start up, what would we do...
  • What if we had no budget what would we do..
  • If there were no restrictions what would we do...
  • Why do we need this or that...
  • How could we simplify this ...
  • In an ideal world what would happen..
  • Imagine a world when.....
  • How could we make this happen...

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