Today’s
#ThursdayThoughts comes from Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, a shapewear company valuated in $1.2-billion. In 2012, she was nominated to the 100 annual most influential people in the world and in 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 93rd most powerful woman.
Sara explains that the big secret behind disruption is not having any idea how it’s supposed to be done. The key is to embrace not knowing, rather than being afraid of what we don’t know. If you let what you don’t know, become your greatest asset, you are bound to do things very differently. We’re all guilty of going through life on autopilot sometimes; we’re doing things exactly the way somebody else showed us how to do it. Spanx employees do a regular excercise where they close their eyes and pretend like they have no idea how to do their job. Just sit in that space for a minute, what comes up? If no one has shown you how to do your job, how would you be doing it? Listening to the answers and determine if there's a better ...