To define success for your initiative you need to focus on measurable outcomes. People need to see the end result with such clarity that they can act on their own.
For most of the industrial era, companies have predominantly asked themselves how to use the resources available to them more efficiently — in other words, how do we produce basically the same kinds of goods and services only faster, better and cheaper? But in today’s value-based economy, companies increasingly need to ask themselves how to use the resources available to them more innovatively — “How do we leverage existing skills and assets in different ways, different contexts or different combinations, in order to create new opportunities for value creation and growth?”
At its very essence, all human thought is based on patterns. We use this innate ability of pattern recognition all the time, without even being aware of it, to identify faces, forms, voices, language, words, musical melodies, images, stories, concepts and so on.
To resiliently bounce back when life has knocked you down, you must be decisive and act. Nevertheless, decisive action is often very difficult in the wake of adversity. Your ascent from the darkness of the abyss is made easier when you use the guiding light of the moral compass.
Language really matters. Especially if you intend to bring people on board and persuade them to follow you and your ideas