Banking was once stable and solid. Trust was always associated with banking until the savings and loan debacle in the mid 1980s. Since then, banks have merged, downsized, and restructured. Banks had to reinvent themselves just as manufacturers did ten years before. Banks became more efficient, reduced redundancies, employed new technologies, and anticipated the changing …
Business is war! Jack Tramiel, CEO Companies often make business decisions that are not people friendly. The head prevails over the heart, gut, or even common sense. If we’re to play the work game, Brand U’s need to know the rules of the competitiveness game. Our employers or customers base their business decisions on competitiveness …
There is no finish line. Nike Corporation motto Capitalism, competitiveness, dot.com profitability, disruption,and innovation are today’s paradigm busters. They are what drive today’s New Economy. Capitalism is triumphant in almost every activity in every corner of the world. National boundaries are disappearing as goods and services move freely. Competitiveness and innovation are continually destroying the …
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Today’s killer idea is often tomorrow’s has been. New paradigms destroy the existing ones and create a new order or set of rules. The old idea, principle, process, system, or product is trashed because it’s too difficult to implement, it costs too much to implement, people don’t understand it, or for a host of other …
Change can come with breathtaking speed, leaving a company on the defensive and in financial trouble when it’s forced to catch up. Gary Goldstick, Business person Paradigm (pronounced pair-a-dime) has become a cliché. Joel Barker in Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future defines a paradigm as: …a set of rules and regulations (written or …
PARADIGMS In Working It, we’ll introduce the significant shifting work paradigms that are creating the Brand U. Joel Barker and other futurists believe the New Economy, competitiveness, and technology will accelerate work change and will create new work paradigms. What will our organizations look like? And, what will Brand U work like look like? The …
Marketplace change. Relentless competition. Offshore and US companies ferociously pursuing customers, marketshare, and margins. Competitive edge provided by low cost, process management, project management, and technology. Work change. Fundamentally changing work. Shift from ‘what’ was being done to ‘how’ work can best be maximized using people, processes, projects, and best practices.[i] Workplace change. Little job …
Disruption. More uncertainty. New work rules. Downloaded authorities and responsibilities. Operationalized vision, mission, plans, and objectives.
“As America pauses for Labor Day, more people have jobs than ever before and the unemployment rate is close to its lowest level in a generation. At the same time, people are less likely to keep their jobs for long periods and the level of layoffs is considerably higher than it was in earlier economic …
Switzerland totally dominated the watchmaking world over the past century. The Swiss made the highest quality watches in the world. They didn’t rest on their laurels. They practiced innovation. They were constantly improving their watch making skills. They invented the minute and second hands. They developed new methods for producing gears, bearings, and mainsprings of …