27A - Reading Reflection 3

Mindset: How you can fulfill your potential

When reading the book Mindset: How you can fulfill your potential. I realized a lot about the operation of an organization and some ways I can learn for myself to become the best possible asset for a company I can be.

The book takes on strong theme of doing what you are not supposed to be doing. I mean that if you are doing something for a business you should look at expanding your point of view and find new ways to be innovative and become an asset for the business rather than another employee doing and following instructions as they are told.

I feel this book really connected with our class because it explains about being unique to an organization. I feel that being an entrepreneur or being intrapreneurs both take the lessons of exploiting opportunities and helping that sole owned organization thrive or making your current employed organization better by the pure help of yourself.

If I were to develop a class based on this book I would look at explaining that you should not follow suit to a business and look to expand across their current horizon and become something that changes that organization.

My biggest aha moment of the book was when they spoke about recruiting talent. The talent they recruited was optimal to the organization but it lead to a group think environment which lead to a negative repercussion because the organization was not taking a innovative approach and stayed within close relation with how the business was operating.