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.
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