BSP 159: The Velocity Mindset by Ron Karr

Ron Karr, author of The Velocity Mindset: How Leaders
Eliminate Resistance, Gain Buy-in, and Achieve Better Results –
Faster, encourages the reader to examine what “velocity” means to
them. While the word that comes to mind for many is “speed,” he
cautions that “If that’s all we have, then we get burned out.”
Velocity is, as defined by physics, ‘speed with direction.’ In
business terms, this relates to when people aren’t really grounded
on the purpose they’re trying to achieve. As a result, they get
involved in tasks that don’t make sense and are not purpose-driven.
Karr warns that it’s critical to have a clear vision of what our
purpose is in order to succeed. The book also examines the premise
that anyone who sells or influences needs to be a leader. He adds,
“People want to deal with people who are leading through a
difficult decision. They don’t want to be sold to.” Karr points out
that one of the biggest mistakes leaders make is they focus solely
on speed and not necessarily in the direction. In the book, he
introduces the concept of a “clean piece of paper,” which refers to
people concentrating on what needs to happen in the future without
clearing their own biases of things that happened in the past. Karr
states, when people “allow the past to dictate what they think is
possible, and not possible, all they do is recreate the past.”
Those past experiences are what hold us back, he adds. Learn more
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