Thinking globally but acting locally,
competing yet
collaborating,
changing yet maintaining continuity.
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Managers are told to
think globally but act
locally, compete yet collaborate,
→
Change
 continuously but maintain continuity.
No wonder many are confused. managers actually require five distinct mindsets,
according to The Five Minds of a Manager, by J.Gosling and H.Mintzberg.
1.
Reflective mindset
→
3Bs
of
Strategic Creativity
Stepping back and reflecting on experiences allow mistakes to be identified.
Reflection may also lead to seeing things in a new ways, e.g., a product as a
service or
customers as partners (or vice versa).
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4.
Collaborative mindset
→
Leadership-Management
Synergy
Managing collaboratively means managing not people
but
relationships. Good managers
listen
more than they
talk and
ask questions more than give orders. They also distribute management
functions so that responsibility goes to whoever shows initiative.
5.
Action mindset
→
Entrepreneurial
Leader:
4 Attributes
We are told that we must change or else. But while
this is an
age of change, not everything is changing (which we tend not to
notice). Managers with
action
mindsets focus organizational energy on
changing
what needs to be changed, while carefully maintaining those that don't.
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Integrating the mindsets
Successful
managers integrate the five mindsets into a single whole.
→
Master
of
Business Synergies
They reflect, act,
and reflect some more; realize that collaboration is necessary, for which they
must enter the world of others to analyze more data and viewpoints; and then
act in an
endless cycle.
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