Source: http://www.nickkellet.com/2012/12/stop-sign-mindset-11-ways-to-change-your-thinking-in-2013/
Follow your own thinking. Create your own following. Curate your ideas. Be creative. Be Curative. Lead. Show and give direction.
Become quotable
Start creating: become a producer not just a consumer
Find your voice. Share your mind not just links. Welcome the lurkers.
Be generous. Share what you find and what you know. Focus on making connections from and through and because of what you find. Be the hub that ideas and energy pass through.
Stop knocking down ideas. Build up people and their ideas. Shine the light on the possible not the impossibility. People don't need help talking down their ideas, they need help building them up. Be the inspiration.
Stop looking back. Embrace, predict and shape tomorrow. Be the future. Define tomorrow's culture. Don't look back to convince yourself of what's not possible. Change the rules. Start now.
Ignite their fuel. Find their element. Bring people to your inner circle. Shine a light on each person's special gift. Embrace people for what they have. Build a jigsaw of talent. If all you find is holes, you have nothing to create from.
Be open. Be vulnerable. Embrace a new outcome. Listening is how we learn. Consider that you might be wrong. Why do other's find friction in your ideas. How can you embrace what they see, while honouring what you believe? Find the path.
Find the value in their idea. Hear and honour their perspective. Find our why they think what they think. Keep asking why until you find common ground.
Seek out the unsaid. Too often we focus on what's visible and what's said. Reach out and find new voices to keep your conversations fresh. Wait and let the quit and the considered fill the silence.
Don't let your vocal colleagues fill the void.
Do you ever look to see what's stopped happening? Who's just turned silent?
