What Is Inside Someone Who Thinks Big?

Main subjects

Scaling your business and yourselfThinking bigBusiness MolodostAn entrepreneur's strategy and decisionsTCThe clientF/Friend / friends

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Introduction
• 01:40The first distinction of someone who thinks big
• 03:06My experience
• 04:56The second distinction of someone who thinks big. Myths about goal setting
• 07:42An example of a company that knows its exact goal
• 10:00The most important distinction of someone who thinks big
• 14:10Other distinctions of businesses that think big
• 17:14How to discover your inner sense of scale
• 18:08My experience at Megaplan and Business Molodost
• 19:52How to learn to think big. The limits of scale and finding yourself

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• 03:04

  Until very recently, I ran GeekBrains. I had a team of thirty directors, twenty top directors—and actually dozens of other directors too—but thirty people I worked with directly, hand in hand every day…

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• 11:15

  Ordinarily, a company with small thinking, a small organization of that size, would never decide to install Salesforce because it's very expensive.

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• 18:25

  Exactly one day before I left and became an owner of Business Molodost, Vedomosti reported that we'd sold Megaplan and 1C had bought it.

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• 18:39

  I clearly remember what took shape inside me when I left Megaplan, eleven years ago—more than eleven years ago.

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• 18:58

  First, the ability to hear the client: every day, continually trying to learn what clients think, want, and talk about.

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• 19:11

  That doesn't mean making the product only as they describe it, but it does mean still going and hearing that client.

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• 20:37

  So every person, wherever they are, can expand the range of their thinking.

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition

• 21:34

  As someone who understands it, I'm firmly convinced it's simple.

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• 22:00

  The fundamental difference is that someone who doesn't understand how to organize finances is actually closing themselves off from a new opportunity.

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• 22:18

  What matters is not asking whether someone with small, narrow thinking can become someone who thinks big.

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