Valley Business Front - Small Business Tool Kit
As I interact and observe the changing work world, I try to view the new perspective as opportunity. I’ve talked with so many professionals over the last 6 months that report feeling enlightened to a new way of life through the COVID work world. Driven colleagues, facing staggering challenges, but using COVID as a way to increase their growth mindset.
Growth mindset is a belief that your talent, skills, abilities and personality can be developed through hard work, good strategies, learning from mistakes and getting input from others. Whereas a person with a fixed mindset believes that basic qualities like intelligence, talents and abilities are fixed. As in, you have a certain amount of talent or intelligence and that’s it. In short when you have a fixed mindset you find it more difficult to navigate the challenges that you encounter during these demanding and uncertain times.
This COVID period has illuminated the success of those entrepreneurs and employers that subscribe and promote the growth mindset. They embrace and stretch their “pivot muscle” better than their counterparts. It’s clearer every day that any citizen with the growth mindset can operate and manage themselves as their own business whether working for themselves or someone else. This unprecedented time has demonstrated that a two, three or four-person team can accomplish big things in their garage or home office.
After all, just about anyone can access the talent that is missing from their toolbox by “renting” expertise needed to grow their business. Even very expensive equipment can be accessed through the “fab labs” popping up across the county or at the local community college. In fact, the cloud enables small companies to store and manage massive amounts of information, hire design gurus online and even benefit from data analytics at little cost. They can do it all through exponential technology that doubles small companies in capability or performance. Technology is now at the point where its price-performance makes it possible to solve today's business problems in ways that were not previously possible.
In many ways, small is bigger because of the ability to leverage all that is at our fingertips, while outpacing big companies, burdened with heavier baggage, in the pivot. Exponential technology and growth mindset sets up smaller companies to be successful during this big disruption known as COVID. Suddenly small is the new big.
Original article found here.
