How to Incorporate Moonshot Thinking into Your Workplace

5 key Points

1-. Moonshot brainstorming sessions.?

When doing planning or building a business roadmap, make room for audacious ideas. A good strategy is to set aside specific time to go over bold and innovative thoughts. These can be team sessions / workshops or even an individual’s scheduled time to get imaginative.

What’s important is to let traditional guards down and take an “anything goes” approach—even the wildest ideas are welcome.

2-. Encourage and reward innovative thinking.?

In order to have any chance of growing, new ideas must first be valued and voiced. Understanding that many ideas may not work, but are still worth mentioning or trying, is key to this approach.

A company that openly encourages this will be more likely to see moonshot thinking flourish, and that’s the kind of company that will lead in innovation.

If you’re a leader at your organization, think about how you could reward this kind of effort.

3-. Look at the big picture.?

It’s helpful to step back from the everyday detail of what you’re currently working on and think more broadly.

How do you really want to change your industry, or society, or the world? What kind of big impact would you want to make if you could do anything through your business?

Activate your innovation engine by practicing and learning from the holistic vision of reality        

4-. Change the scenario.?

Often we automatically factor in our current limitations when approaching a problem. But moonshot thinking is about getting outside of that box.

In five years, for example, might today’s limitations be removed for a given scenario?

What would it take for that to happen, and how would you reframe your goals if those obstacles weren’t there?

5-. Narrow down and start to forge paths.?

Once ideas are brainstormed, begin to determine the path(s) most likely to succeed and the steps to take to reach this goal.

What will be required in terms of funding, time and other resources?

Could a partnership or networking help you move forward? What are the hurdles and how can you get beyond them?

And, importantly, what can you do?right away?to get started?