Moonshots – Learning Science for Life Pivots, Start-up, Entrepreneur Mindset
Everyone has goals. But do you have your Moonshots lined up by Missions? And are your Missions supported by a series of Stretches? And do you have any protocol to improve performance via Test-Flights? If you want to accomplish the almost impossible and you want to bring others along with you. You have to define your Moonshots and Missions.
- Improve sales and operations execution:
Getting teams focused on their efforts via a few of the highest-value Moonshots leverages your current planning process, by identifying gaps in the planning infrastructure with your brand architecture and put you and your team set for alignment. - Optimize the value chain for perfect planning:
The resources to decide what to apply to sales and service levels can make or break your start-up. The teams focused on resolving issues related to these projects can freeze, too often they don’t know what the priorities are to the project bigger picture. Not knowing the difference between missions and moonshots can be a death blow.
- Determine the right directions for high performance:
The guy mopping the floors to the CEO must be on the same page. The work starts with the janitor who needs to know why he is mopping the floor – to get a man on the moon. Too often the CEO is not communicating that vision to everyone and helping everyone find purpose with your Moonshot. - Optimize tasks and take test-flights:
The key to stellar sales and service levels is failing fast, falling forward, and yet landing softly. The teams focused on resolving issues related to higher-than-expected blocks or challenges must be seen as opportunities to new ways, systems and processes to achieve better outcomes.
Challenge
The challenge I discovered is that most start-ups, entrepreneurs, and anyone making a life pivot does not have their goals defined and their value architecture shared in any real world practicality. Everyone knows that getting everyone on the same page reduces workload management and increases productivity. What few understand is does everyone understand what the organizational values are and how do they align with everyone’s personal goals and needs…
If you don’t know what your Moonshot is, if you can’t explain its impact to yourself and others. Then how can you continue on rowing against rough seas if your North Star is missing?
Read the Handbook “Moonshots, Marshmallows, Mindsets, & Me” by Dr. Christopher David Kaufman
Solution
The Dr. Kaufman solution combines cutting edge technology with real-world practicality. Everyone knows that their systems need to be updated, the real challenge is updating them without disrupting the whole organization in a negative way. The solution is to introduce Moonshots and Missions’ management done through simulations and scenario testing, while providing mobile platforms to the field.
This allows the workers to be involved in the job instead of feeling like they had been made redundant by technology.
Based on my implementations here are the numbers:
- Reduced project startup time by 43%
- Decreased quality variability by 50%
- Lowered the risk of scope creep by 95%
- Increased stock for finished goods by 10%
- Decreased communication breakdown by 50%
- Lowered the risk of stakeholder conflicts by 95%
