The goals of the Profit booster lab
Goal 1
Mastering the practices, facts, frameworks and theories that make up the core understanding of how sustainable profits are made and can be boosted.
- Understand the limits of desires, intentions, markets and models when dealing with profits
- Developing thinking skills towards profits: critical thinking, integrative thinking
- Developing and articulating logical, coherent, and persuasive strategic arguments
- Marshalling supporting evidence
- Distinguishing fact from opinion
- Honing profit strategic integration skills
- Thinking about issues from diverse, shifting angles to frame profit problems holistically
- Learning to make strategic decisions based on multiple, often conflicting, functional perspectives
- Building judgment and intuition into messy, unstructured situations
Goal 2
Mastering the skills, capabilities and techniques that lie at the heart of healthy profit generation
- Thinking creatively and innovatively when dealing with profits
- Finding and framing profit problems
- Collecting, synthesizing, and distilling large volumes of profit related ambiguous data
- Engaging in generative and lateral thinking
- Constantly experimenting and learning
- Recognizing organizational realities and overcoming profit boosting implementation challenges
- Influencing others and getting “profit things” done in the context of hidden agendas, unwritten rules, political coalitions, and competing points of view
- Enhancing capacity to find, define, analyze, and solve profit problems from a multidisciplinary perspective
- Strengthening profit-driven project management skills
- Adapting theories and frameworks to particular profit-driven contexts and problems
Goal 3
Mastering the values, attitudes and beliefs that form outstanding Top Managers’ core character
- Analyze the role and responsibility of profits in business and society
- Pay greater attention to personal and professional development
- Understanding how to motivate and connect with a full range of people in a high performance environment
- Developing profit leadership skills
- Understanding the purpose of organizations and the responsibilities of leadership towards profits
- Developing alternative approaches to inspiring, influencing, and guiding others towards profit goals
- Recognizing the impact of one’s actions and behaviors on the overall profits of any organization
- Building awareness of personal strengths, weaknesses and values towards profit generation
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