Don’t Stifle Innovative Thinking. Entrepreneurs are by nature always thinking of innovation and the next great idea, but you may unwittingly have ways of thinking and processes that are holding you back.
In their book “The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, System, and Processes,” Ed Hess and Jeanne Liedtka outline a few ways that even the most innovative company may be unknowingly sabotaging its own success. Those ways of thinking must be examined and changed if your startup or small business is going to reach its potential. Time-tested managerial goals like efficiency, scale, and low-variance operational excellence should be the first to go.