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Over the last 6 months I’ve found myself doing work for smaller companies.

This has been absolutely awesome because startups and smaller businesses all operate with Beginners Mind.

1️⃣ There are very few assumptions

Most small businesses don’t carry the same mental baggage as larger organisations. Small businesses tend to be breaking new ground, looking for gaps in the market and being as flexible as possible.

Assumptions, beliefs and biases aren’t holding them back.

2️⃣ They are willing to be wrong

In anything new there is a very real danger of being wrong. In small busineses this tends to be accepted far more readily than in larger organisations.

The willingness to try but get it wrong is important for effective learning.

3️⃣ Change is welcome

Small businesses know they need to adapt and morph to what’s going on around them. Without the market share or reputation of large busineses they know that they can’t “do business as usual”.

Without the difficulties in negotiating across lots of organisational layers change is made quickly and happily.

4️⃣ There is a razor focus on customers

Every single customer is a unique win in small business. That means they know their customers as people, with real desires and pains. They treat their customers like gold because everyone is critical to their success.

💡Beginners Mind is a powerful tool for growth and building insight.

Working with small businesses has a certain energy of positivity and excitement that’s fuelled by Beginners Mind. The truth is that larger busineses should be doing the very same things. By casting off long help assumptions, biases and red tape fresh thinking brings new ideas.

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