Anne-Maire is the owner of a business consultancy as well as being a mentor, speaker, trainer and coach within the business industry. Anne-Maire is from a scientific background working in the pharmaceutical industry at Pfizer and spoke about the parallels between the characteristic of a business and a scientific mindset. Though workshop activities we spoke about many different business people from the eccentrics like Elon Musk and Richard Branson to Emma Walmsley and Warren Buffet who are seen much less in the press. Some of the attributes these individuals have are critical thinking, data management, self-dedication and not being scared of failure which are also observed in the science industry.
Developing a business mindset is another focus of the talk in which Anne-Maire gave 10 points on doing so:
- Be aware with the news and the business world around you.
- Find out what the people want, conducting market research and a focus on convenience and speed which everyone wants to make their lives easier.
- Accept the purpose is to make money.
- Thinking for yourself and not others.
- Forward planning and being strategic about your activity and progression.
- Connect with profitability and the language associated with business.
- Understand and implement a strategy.
- Consider multiple streams of income, don’t be closed to ideas.
- Its not about you and the business come first.
- Ultimately a need to translate everything to business.
Ultimately describing a business mindset as ‘a way of thinking that enables you to uncover and see problems as opportunities and then turn those opportunities into a business and an understanding that everything comes from and idea and execute it.’
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