Ideas to create more community breakthroughs.

Start looking at the ‘movers and shakers in your community, people who can enable you to “see your community, or something in the world, differently”. You need these and other innovators to develop revolutionary concepts that help shape how everyone sees the community in today’s world. Who can help you capture the ideas from the ‘flooded river’ of big data, engage with social media, mobility, and generally trade beyond your community?

Vision development is an essential key to breakthroughs.

Vision development describes the behaviour of creating a compelling and realistic vision. A clear vision for community breakthroughs will drive people’s desire to reach attractive and attainable goals. Good leaders with this skill can make it personal and relevant to their small regional town or village, the environment, and circumstances.

Without a vision, a small community will struggle from one catastrophe or disaster to another. Because of the limited time and resources, community breakthroughs are very difficult. Inviting an external entrepreneur to help create a vision for the community might be what is needed.

Introduce a more holistic approach to your regional community.

Many small businesses and non-profits will not have a holistic approach to their enterprises because they think the community is too small. As a result, they do not address such functions as planning, marketing, operations, finance, relationships, well-being, health and management practices.

Rectifying this can significantly impact innovation and create new businesses and jobs. Unfortunately, fewer advisors and consultants in small regional communities can lead to complacency with the status quo. Without advisors, other ways need to be found to create community breakthroughs. For example, small community focus groups can be set up to address critical issues.

Without advisors, other ways need to be found to create community breakthroughs. For example, small community talent groups can be set up to address critical issues. The word ‘small’ is emphasised because it doesn’t take many people to brainstorm ideas, and there aren’t many people to go around.

There are sure to be opportunities for the taking.

Quotable quotes.

“No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralise your endeavours and make success impossible”. Baudjuin

“When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us”. Alexander Graham Bell