Eight thinking skills for the emerging business scenarios.

This schematic depicts how effective people would use eight  thinking skills to attain own vision and dreams.

At the bottom is Bottom-Line thinking and the top  is Thinking of Big Picture. One uses the Big picture thinking to visualize the future for or dream what could be the future state -for self or for an organization . Bottom line thinking gives one a base and clarity for decision making.

The diagram suggests iteration till you succeed in attaining a vision or dream. A new dream emerges as a big picture thinking -the earlier dream becoming base and the iteration continues.

Look at the diagram as a  big pot and the eight skills need to be churned  Link Bottom line thinking to Big picture thinking all the while through the six skills making up walls of the big pot .

Realizing Dreams

ASK

Realizing your dream is ASK

A: Attitude that is positive and inclined to ask questions. Attitude leads to motivation each time you find options or opportunities thru questioning. Motivation results into initiatives to take up improvements.

S: Skills you acquire as a lifelong process encouraged or prompted by your questions. Acquiring skills is developing own competencies to improve continually to attain your next dream.

K: Knowledge is what you update again lifelong to use skills appropriately for the opportunities you visualize. Attitude, skills and knowledge create a personality to inspire-you and others to improve.

Initiatives, Inspiration and Improvement enable you to attain dreams. Dreams must keep changing as the environment around you changes.

The central idea is that one must ASK questions and be inquisitive to realize dreams. Ask questions to be very clear and specific on what you want to attain as dream. The questions most beneficial are:

• Why? and Why not?
• What? What if? and What else?
• How else? and How much?
  

The answers will give you purpose, perspective, practices, possibilities and proportions leading to options in attaining a dream. Options are opportunities.Use “ASK” again to realize these options and evolve.

ASK is an ongoing process and helps you in adapting and evolving

in time and space.