Ep. 28 Blazing Wider Paths by Linda Drake

"We need to develop the leadership ability to teach our people not only what to do, but how to think." Linda Drake, this week's guest on Jumping the Gap, talks about overcoming mindset limitations in order to build a company in the multi-million dollar levels of success. As Chief Pathfinder and Founder of Trailblazer Advisors, Linda brings insight to opportunities in the business environment by coaching for entrepreneurial and team success.

What were some of the things that worked well for her? And how can you, as an entrepreneur, apply these as well to achieve your business goals for 2015? Linda shares three important tips:

• Check in on your passion: how do we stay congruent with our own personal self as well as congruent with our drive for the business?
• Expand yourself: expose yourself to ideas, technology and people that will help you grow in vision, insight and capacity.
• Be prepared for change: how do we get ahead of the power curve on change?

Linda drives home the point further on the power of teaching and transforming the way one thinks: "We get so caught up in our own myopic thoughts. The more we can expose ourselves to the bigger ideas, to the alternative ideas . . . the alternative we have does more for our resilience and our ability to create our character, improve our leadership and really help our employees in our company."