"Break the Limits of Thinking" The 'Moonshot Thinking' Needed for Managers

Gwangju Gyeongchong, 1619th Friday Breakfast Forum

The Gwangju Employers Federation held the 1619th Friday Breakfast Forum on the 8th under the theme "Lonely Leader, The Power of Great Thoughts."

On that day, Gwangju Employers Federation announced that it held the forum by inviting Lee Hak-young, an advisor of the Korea Economic Daily, at the convention hall on the 3rd floor of the Gwangju Hotel, which was a Friday holiday.

In his lecture, Advisor Lee said, "The height of one's perspective determines everything depending on how far and where a person looks," adding, "Even if you live in a 5-story apartment, you can see the world, but a 15-story apartment allows you to see more of the world. If you break through the limits of thought, survival continues, but if you are trapped within limits, destruction follows."

He also emphasized, "What managers need is the limit of thought and the power of definition, which requires a 'thought experiment' where one establishes their own hypothesis through Moonshot Thinking and mentally verifies it to the completion stage."

He continued, "A representative example of Moonshot Thinking is when John F. Kennedy said he would land a man on the moon within 10 years. NASA said it was impossible, but the president ordered them to proceed. NASA took it as a given that humans would set foot on the moon and worked backward to determine what steps were necessary," explaining, "As a result, humans landed on the moon in 1969."

The next forum will be held on the 15th with Mayor Yoon Byung-tae of Naju invited to speak on the theme "The Direction of Integration of Gwangju and Jeonnam."

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