MBI’s spur creativity in other people. 

An MBI possesses a unique and critical skill: they can spur others around them to develop similar levels of imaginative thinking.

In doing so, they can shake a team out of its administrative complacency, and motivate them into a mode in which they are able to rethink, redo and re-imagine, such that they lend much more value to the organization.

MBI’s refuse to accept the status quo. 

Ogden Nash once observed that “progress is great, but it has gone on far too long.”

Such stale thinking doesn’t drive the passion of an MBI: instead, they look at the world around them, and constantly question how they might shake things up a bit, not simply to cause change, but in order to provide a climate in which the people within it can succeed and excel.

MBI’s have the skill to learn and unlearn.

MBI’s know that we live in a world in which learning has become their job, and just-in-time knowledge has become the foundation for future success.

They don’t make the dangerous assumption that what they know will carry them in to tomorrow; they realize that the knowledge and skills that they will need to do their job in the future will require skills that are infinitely more complex.

Rather than viewing this as a burden to be assumed, they view the opportunity to continuously learn something new with passion and enthusiasm.

MBI’s accept challenges with passion and enthusiasm. 

Most studies continue to show that many people go to work each with dread, fear and worry being their constant companion. Once they arrive, they fall into a monotonous routine of meetings, checklists and to-do’s.

Not MBI’s : they approach each day as a new and exciting opportunity! They know that the world is wide open for them to use their way of thinking differently to shake things up, discover opportunity, and redefine parameters. Their passion as leaders is such that their enthusiasm becomes infectious; the most successful to such a degree that they begin to steer the entire organization towards their fresh and exciting way of thinking.

MBI’s embrace diverse thinking.

They listen to people who are different then them. An effective MBI knows that the attitudes that they possess can restrict them in their thinking, and that the knowledge they know is but a sliver of what there is to know.

The result is that they are constantly on the prowl for new ideas and new ways of thinking, and understand that often this can come from those who think differently than they do. Examine the make up of a team assembled by an MBI, and you will find a group of people who are all very different. That’s because an MBI knows that a multitude of difference can bring far more creative thinking than the sameness from a group of clones.

MBI’s don’t say “it won’t work.” Instead, they ask the question, “how can we make it work? 

MBI’s refuse to accept failure as an option, and instead, constantly work to ensure that goals are achieved. If they don’t have what is needed to make it work, they look for creative and imaginative ways to get around that limitation.