Looking for what’s not there

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Subtitle:  Carbon copies of carbon copies

Imitating success is a great way to learn and implement a proven formula to better ensure your chances of reaching goals, especially if you’re breaking into a market and still have a learning curve to encompass.  There are experts in every field who you can emulate and benefit from by learning from their mistakes and capitalize from their accomplishments.  However, by continuing along this path of secondhand originality you will not blaze a path of your own or have much innovation by following the footsteps of others.

At some point, the field that you are in will demand fresh proposals and bold ideas as the status quo grows commonplace and stagnates.  To meet these needs one must churn out innovative contributions and constantly thread fine lines of speculation as one’s proposals are brought to market.  But, how is this done?  How does one find newness?

Sometimes this requires stepping back from your field and taking an inventory of what others are doing as well as yourself.  I always say to look for what’s not there: find and fill a need.  Of course, if you’re in touch with your own individuality this won’t be very hard to do.

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  • http://www.hispanictalentmemo.com Miguel A. Corona

    Great thoughts here Louis. While working on my PhD we were constantly told the same thing. Our jobs in writing our individual dissertations, for example, was to add something of value and to make a contribution. It’s like building a wall of knowledge. While we were not expected to build the whole wall, we were expected to add our one brick, our contribution that would help add the wall of knowledge. Thanks for the post!

  • http://www.hub81.com Jose Huitron

    Great post Louis! There are many lessons to be learned from those who have chartered the various paths in front of us. We have the ability to take it to a whole new level. We are presented with opportunities to do it bigger and better than our competitors. Quality and differentiation adds true value which leads to a definite advantage.

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