77. The Power of Thinking Bigger - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE

It's your time. Time to step boldly out and embrace the big thinking your mission needs to scale and grow long-term. We're finishing up our final entrepreneurial hacks series with one of our favorite topics: thinking bigger. Fair warning: it requires us to employ cognitive diversity (gosh, we love this expression!). By digging into big problems to debate root causes and solutions, we can eliminate roadblocks and find a clearer path to news successes.

Evolved professionals don't let challenges get in the way of achieving their goal - they let it inspire them to think critically. We're talking risk-taking and big, bold thinking that allows us to break out of "the way it's always been done." Join us as we share our own risks and how we channeled bigger thinking to seize opportunities. Hey, this company is living proof that big risks can yield amazing rewards.

Episode Overview

• The power of big thinking (2:40)
• Cognitive Diversity - include people who have different styles of problem solving for new perspectives (3:00)
•  Start with your values and understand what those really mean (6:00)
• Take the risk that your mission deserves (6:30)
• Quit looking for best practice case studies and just implementing them as is (7:40)
• Jon & Becky’s 5 tips to embrace big thinking (10:45)
• The role of community in thinking bigger (17:20)
• Ask yourself: what community could you leverage? (17:40)
• Thinking big is a learnable skill (18:44)
• Join our Good Community!

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