Breakthrough is aBreakthrough is a

State of MindState of Mind

What if failure was an option?

Road MapRoad Map

• Breakthrough Drivers

• Stages of Breakthrough Thinking

• The Cast of Characters

• Unleashing Powerful People

• Learning From The Pride & The Drum

Breakthrough DriversBreakthrough Drivers

• Diversity of Thought

• “Failure Is Not An Option mentality”

• Don’t sweat the small stuff

• Use the “Third Eye”

• Awakening

Breakthrough DriversBreakthrough Drivers

Awakening…

it has an enabling quality about it!

The Stages of The Stages of Breakthrough ThinkingBreakthrough Thinking

The Stages ofThe Stages ofBreakthrough ThinkingBreakthrough Thinking

• Disbelief: What are you smoking?

• Consideration: “Okay, I’ll keep an open mind”

• Skepticism: “You are smoking…This will not work”

• Illumination: “Maybe this will work”

• Light goes on: “Wow, this will work”

• Fear: “What if it fails?”

• Buy In: “I believe, I commit”

Cast of CharactersCast of Characters

Cast of CharactersCast of Characters

• The Gentle Rottweiler

• The Logical Skeptic

• The Persistent Tackler

• The Intellectual Doer

• The Committed Critic

• The Creative Conductor

Unleashing Unleashing Powerful PeoplePowerful People

Learning From the Pride!Learning From the Pride!

Learning From the Pride!Learning From the Pride!

• Powerful Teams are made up of Powerful individuals

• The pride focuses on clearly understood goals

• Team members are alert to communications

• All eat, or all starve

• Flat structures work best

• Training is intensive

• There are no “passengers”

Drumming To One BeatDrumming To One Beat

Drumming To One BeatDrumming To One Beat

• 100 are stronger than 1• Best results are achieved when all work in unison• Those not contributing are easy to ID• Strong, decisive leadership can quickly

harmonize the team

The Mouse TrapThe Mouse Trap

Leaders Beware

Avoiding the Mouse TrapAvoiding the Mouse Trap

• Don’t take your eye off the ball

• Don’t stop investing in your team

• Your competition lives to kill you

• Breakthrough Thinking is not a fad

• Fire bad management

• Just because they pay, does not mean they are happy

““Ask for the Ask for the Impossible…Impossible…Settle for the Settle for the Improvable”Improvable”