Eight Forces that Will Shape the Future
If you think the speed of change is fast today - it hasn't even started. The world is reshaping its self at warp speed, but underneath those changes are important and understandable plates that, once understood, provide a template with which to make decisions and gain insight into what seems like overwhelming challenges.
Changes In Technology: What and What Does It Mean?
Ten-year business plans have been replaced with ten-week plans. We are entering a time that includes greater-than-human technological sophistication and intelligence. Even science fiction writers have mostly abandoned any attempt to portray the hyper accelerated technological world of fifty years hence. In coming decades, programmers from third world will outnumber the first world technical support population between five- and ten-to-one.
Building High Performance Teams
Are you focusing on your company's productivity levels? Quality? Leadership skills? Team effectiveness? Overall employee motivation? Organizational design? How about putting people in a room and having them discover the power of moving to an efficiently-designed, well-led organization that taps into the energy of individual ownership and teamwork?
Leadership: “If I Take Away Your Title, Will They Follow You?”
So you think you really know what it takes to be a leader in the communications age? You believe that some things are just impossible to do unless you see it happen? You think you really understand how people look at you and how that frames your company's culture? You think people hear your company vision and really understand and see what you are after? If you can answer yes to these questions, you don't need to hear Jim.
How Your Business Can Do Everything Right and Still Lose
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat” Sun Tzu – The Art of War. Most companies that close down use the wrong strategy and wrong tactics. It is a combination for failure. There is a thin line between strategy and tactics; they are different yet both of them are integral in the path to success. Implementing one without the other is ineffective and counter – productive.
Change or Be Changed
Why is it that organizations want to change and just can't seem to fast enough? Why is it that companies and people confuse incremental change with transformation [real deep change]? Today, our workplace and markets keep changing. New ways of thinking and behaving are required because change is major in scope, discontinuous with the past and generally irreversible.