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Why Business Leaders Need A Special
Mindset To Successfully Grow
(For many top-level business leaders, business growth is a gamble
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The first thing top-level leaders need to understand about
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growth is its uncertainty. Growth takes people into unchartered
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not work. Likewise, the management mindset to eliminate variance and
to strive for standardization is counterproductive to growth and
innovation.
"Venture capitalists seem to be the most comfortable taking on
the gambler mentality needed to grow successfully," says Hess. "They
understand that the force at play here is uncertainty. They see
themselves as managing portfolios of growth opportunities. They also
know that their ability to predict at the early stages which of two
ventures will succeed is poor. They do not attribute this to their
personal failings; instead, they recognize that the inability to
predict is a property of the uncertainty surrounding any new
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Hess points out a few important factors about the growth gamble
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of sync with the reality that guides professional gamblers and VCs.
Chances are that these organizations expect ten out of ten projects
not only to win — but to win big. They demand that their
managers and employees produce growth, inadvertently thwart their
attempts, and uphold a system in which pulling the plug on a failed
growth opportunity is a career-threatening act. "The
reality is," explains Hess, "that 100 growth experiments may produce
10 viable growth initiatives worth investing in. Growth is an
iterative learning process characterized by detours, zigzags, and
remakes." Growth is a learning process.
Good growth companies understand the realities of growth. Growth
requires the right mindset — a learning mindset — and
the right processes designed to make small bets, learn critical
information quickly, and then assess next steps. "We call
that process Learning Launches," says Hess. "Not only is the right
learning mindset needed, but also the right attitude is needed
individually and organizationally about failure. By definition, you
will make mistakes and have failures. Remember, so long as you make
small bets and use the right rigorous process, there is no real
failure so long as you are learning." Growth can be
messy and inefficient. Most companies can't stomach the
uncertainty that comes with growth. It violates their dominant
no-variance operational mindset. Well, guess what — growth and
innovation are high-variance processes by their nature. If you do
not accept that fact, then your growth initiatives will be limited
to small incremental improvements, which at some point will not
produce enough growth to keep your supporters happy.
"Operational excellence strives for 99-percent defect-free
performance," says Hess. "Contrast this to growth experimentation
that can result in failure rates of 90-percent. In operational
excellence environments, managers are rewarded for stamping out
variance. Yet, in growth environments, variance is the norm."
"Don’t be afraid to step up to the challenge," says Hess. "Having a
growth mindset, using the right growth experimentation process, and
having a culture that understands that managing both growth and
innovation initiatives is different from managing daily operations."
(Edward D. Hess is professor of business administration and
Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of
Business, University of Virginia. He is the author of ten books,
over 60 cases, and over 60 articles. His work has appeared in over
200 media outlets around the world. Jeanne
Liedtka is the United Technologies Corporation's Professor of
Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business
and former strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group. She is
the author of two recent books, and a leading expert on the use of
design thinking tools to create growth strategies and
opportunities.)
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