10 ways you can see and take advantage of “hidden” opportunities

They’re all around you. What you need is an expanded mindset to see them more clearly.

Here are 10 strategies to help you remove your mental blinders, connect more dots and add tremendous value with your ideas.

1. Whack your perspective

Look at your products and services from different perspectives. How would a customer group that you’re not currently serving view them? How would a competitor look at them? What weaknesses would they try to exploit?

How would someone from another world, who has never seen your company or its products, regard them? These “sleight of head” questions are designed to help you to kick your brain out of its usual patterns of perception and thought.

2. Go back to the future

How will what you’re doing be performed 10 years from now? Project yourself a decade into the future and develop a rich narrative of what this will look and feel like. Then come back to the present and make a list of what you need to begin doing now to get…