What could be the key to success in business for individuals, leaders and organizations?

Notably the ability to serve customers by providing great products or service and creating value, in a way that is efficient, competitive, profitable and valued. This, however, requires an array of leadership skills, i.e., the ability to innovate, learn and develop; get the best from the people, knowledge and resources; and to build relationships inside and outside the business set-up. As if these weren’t enough, all of this need be achieved constantly, in today’s times of complexity and volatility.

New ideas, energy and the ability to fit new contexts and meet new challenges are therefore needed constantly to ensure success. That’s why business tools and techniques are so valuable for leaders to help meet varied challenges. In this series, we’ll explore some of the well-known business tools and techniques, their proven power and potency. Positively, these are not only insightful but also useful brilliant when in great adversity.

Parallel to these ideas, what’s required is a willingness to experiment, an ability to understand the root causes of any issue and practicality to do something distinctive. As is well said by an expert, “the great ideas and decisions are a blend of rigorous analysis and intuition”. Finally, the need to follow through and ensure success is revealed by the recurring need to monitor, measure and refine the way these ideas work.

The specific characteristic qualities of these concepts to help succeed is by applying them successfully to your own setting. Precisely, the likelihood of supreme feat increases if:

???????You are self-aware and develop our skills,

???????You are clear about the specific challenge, issue or opportunity,

???????You question and constantly challenge assumptions: yours and others’,

???????You are ready to confront challenges and problems early on,

???????You are ready to develop a mindset that to learn and improve,

???????You openly understand that good ideas can come from anywhere,

???????You act practical and realistic, and follow through the implementation,

???????You give praise and credit, with a belief in collaboration and teamwork,

???????Finally, if you are open to learn to balance intuition and analysis.

Hope, most of the upcoming concepts will help stimulate your thinking along new, creative lines, generating brilliant ideas for the future.

Remember though, that personal or professional endeavors, require energy, flexibility, creativity and zeal, while complacency and inefficiency have no room on this journey.