Don Springer 🧭

Digital Board Director | Helping advisors sharpen their skills and practices for greater impact | Decades as Board Director, Corporate Leader & Entrepreneur👇

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90% of corporate leaders believe that starting a new venture requires discovering opportunities.

"Search and select" is the correct approach for a predictable environment,

but not for an uncertain environment.

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Serendipity is always involved in discovery.

Unexpected events can be an asset or a liability.

Invite surprise as a clue to altering your niche, services, and company;

it can provide novel outcomes for your venture.

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The "Blank Page" can Freeze Us.

Constraints can Guide Action

Here are 5 Steps to improve creativity:

1. Create routines/rituals
2. Design to begin
3. Discover to continue
4. Reveal new constraints moving
5. Reveal new discoveries too

Move Forward with Constraints.

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A business is a system within a system.

5 relevant features of Systems:

1. Composed of interconnected parts
2. All parts connected
3. Parts affect each other
4. Systems functions within larger system
5. Systems have feedback

Stakeholders = nodes of your system, so collaborate

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Every journey has a guide.

The craft of Strategic Steerage has 5.

5 mentors for Strategic Steerage:

1. Experts

2. Promotor

3. Work Peer

4. Friend

5. Client

Observable cues and explicit guidance from all 5

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Practice culminates in arriving as a master of Strategic Steerage.

It is a response to the nature of the situation with professional know-how.

The master entrepreneur or advisor focuses on 3 areas: 🧵👇

[Don Springer 🧭 @don_springer]

Practice culminates in arriving as a master of Strategic Steerage.

It is a response to the nature of the situation with professional know-how.

The master entrepreneur or advisor focuses on 3 areas: 🧵👇

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✋At this point in the practice of Strategic Steerage, the practitioner is adding value to the practice as much as to the ventures themselves.

It is a case of contributing to, and perhaps moving, “the industry.”

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Continuing the practice of Strategic Steerage as a Journeyman.

Refining the skill means practice and expansion.

The journeyman entrepreneur or advisor focuses on 3 areas:🧵👇

[Don Springer 🧭 @don_springer]

Continuing the practice of Strategic Steerage as a Journeyman.

Refining the skill means practice and expansion.

The journeyman entrepreneur or advisor focuses on 3 areas:🧵👇

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✋Skill enhancement and knowledge expansion play a big part in apprenticeship, but a change in attitude is paramount to moving through this stage to mastery.