A few weeks back, some colleagues of mine went on a visit to a customer. This customer runs many of our existing products. One of those colleagues and I had been recently discussing how we notify customers of our changes. I was describing very excitedly sharing my belief that what I had been doing was some cutting edge/forward thinking on this topic. I was trying to paint a vision, and while this person remembered the vision, they did not know that it was *vision* and mentioned it to the customer as fact. I got an e-mail as the meeting was taking place. I was dumb founded that this colleague could not differentiate between fact and fiction -- what a ridiculous thought!
Just as I was thinking how ridiculous the idea was, I suddenly thought of a related idea that was not ridiculous at all. This idea did not have a huge fact/fiction delta and is something that we could deliver to our customers in fairly short order. I would never have come up with this idea unless my colleague had not suggested such a "Ridiculous" idea. Are you ready for ridiculous? If not, try and move from a "Fixed Mindset" to a "Growth Mindset".
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