Thinking Big

   This week  I learned the advantages of thinking big and making time to be creative. I listened to the owner of Taylor's Boats, who taught  listeners to never underestimate yourself. In sharing his experience, he  shared his experience his first year of being invited to a big dinner for companies who made it to the top 100 boat retailers out of 7,000. He expected to be close to the 100th company. It turned out his company was number 11 that year. In his second year, he also expected to be in the lower tier of companies.   To his surprise , that year he was number 6  in North America. He concludes his presentation saying " don't let anyone  tell you you can't do it."

     The second thing  I learned  was to take time for creativity.  Marissa Mayer, a Google executive,  told viewers that  their company sets aside 20%  of employee time in creative pursuits. Nearly half of all new  projects launched  came from the creative moments set aside every week for employees. She concludes that if you give employees  license to be creative, it can bring a huge amount of innovation.
   
     When I build my company, I want to encourage creativity in my workforce. However, to get started,  I need to dream big and not let anyone tell me I can't.