This is the key question of the ‘New Economy.’ Those who ‘get it’ understand the extent to which the Internet will facilitate commerce, change work, and accelerate the Brand U Nation. Those who ‘get it’ also understand the race to stake out Web ‘real estate’ to create dynamic Brand U’s web sites. As a result, …
Change distorts our perceptions of life and work. Change is distressing. Change can distort the reality – the ‘is’ of what is happening around us. We then react according to our perceptions of the ‘is’ which if distorted by old assumptions or rules, can affect how we deal with our life/work/career. Paradigms are critical to …
Paradigm: Provides us a language, a common set of assumptions, and a common set of expectations of what may occur in the future.[i] Barker, Joel, Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future, Harper Business, 1992.
Mary Ann Pulley in Losing Your Job – Reclaiming Your Soul makes an important distinction between reacting or responding to change. Reacting implies emotional, rooted in past experience, and counter productive. Often we react with anger or bitterness based on past experiences. Responding implies a matter of choice in terms of how we feel instead …
Are the organization’s core activities and competencies being done in-house, by suppliers, by temps, or someone else? What are the risks and value to each group? Are the right people working on the right things? Are workers in each category chosen so their desires, abilities, and assets match their work? Are people compensated in …
The company with the second best organization ends up second place in the market. Wayne Calloway, CEO PepsiCo, Inc. Mergers and acquisitions are increasing. The result was that more people were downsized than at any time in recent history. Why is this happening? Companies want to boost profits and can’t do it by simply raising …
AT&T is a continuing story of business transformation and rebranding that’s happening to many companies. Xerox a little while ago was the ‘Copier Company.’ Then it transformed itself into the ‘Document Company.’ In its latest incarnation, it’s branded into the ‘Knowledge Company.’ Normally jobs are cut when there is a financial emergency. The company is …
To prosper, all companies search for the next killer product or idea. Now, there are simply not enough products in the pipeline to accommodate new customer demands as the economy and markets expand. Many companies learned this lesson the hard way. When products go stale, stagnation and revenue loss are not far behind. The auto …
One way to increase productivity is to do whatever we are doing now, but faster … there is a second way. We can change the nature of the work we do, not how fast we do it. Andrew Grove, CEO Intel Organizations want to live. This is the bottom line of business. The question is …
“There are No German or US Companies, Only Successful Ones” the Wall Street Journal recently headlined. We have become a global economy and it affects us in ways we probably don’t like. Senior managers in many companies believe in open markets; global competition where customers are accessible; products move seamlessly across borders; technology is universally …