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Most people learn the lessons their parents and their teachers feel are the keys to success in this world. People are taught to think in certain patterns and told these will help them succeed. In the book “The Maverick Mindset” by Dr. John Eliot” this well known self improvement and leadership expert challenges those precepts and uses examples drawn from the life of the most successful people of this age to back his points.
While almost anyone can point to Tiger Woods and Ted Williams and say that they have an incredible ability to focus and block out anything but the most important things of the moment, very few people can claim to have determined how they do it. “The Maverick Mindset” points to these amazingly successful figures and clearly outlines how they achieve such single minded focus. Moreover, this is translated to a business mindset that almost any one can use.
Dr. John Elliot points out the most successful achievers and draws correlations between what they do how they think and what they achieve. According to his book “The Maverick Mindset” all of these exceptional achievers share one thing in common, and that is an unwillingness to accept “common wisdom” just because it was what they were taught. Instead he points out that each of them has gone their own way and sometimes even flown in the face of accepted wisdom.
While a businessman may be extremely well qualified in their field and extremely knowledgeable the book “The Maverick Mindset” points out that qualifications do not guarantee success. Although one needs to know their business well and have the education or experience to do the job, the other half of the equation is the mindset. Getting results the traditional way may not be possible.
Dr. John Eliot’s book points out that the most successful businessmen refused to take the road most traveled and refused to hear “you can’t do that.” While a businessman may not necessarily want to be a pro golfer, he can take the lessons learned from highly successful athletes and apply it to his business to focus only on what is essential and will make money.
The book “The Maverick Mindset” outlines not only the similarities in successful businessmen such as CEOs of top corporations but what traits they share that are completely different. For these individuals the norm is not acceptable no more than failure is acceptable. Dr. Eliot feels this can be taught to make others more successful in business and life in general.
Success in a chosen Endeavour is not always the direct result of careful planning, refusal to take risks or following an established plan, not for the most successful of businessmen. Instead they seem to share an ability to know when they should take risks, when plans are unworkable, unnecessary or too cumbersome and when goal setting may well get in the way of the goal. Some people are born with this knowledge it seems while others can learn it, according to Dr. Eliot.
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Source by Ben Sanderson
