Change has been faster than ever, accelerated in a speed business owners can hardly follow. To follow might not be an option. It is perhaps time to unlearn and rethink the rules of the game.
The rules to success is changed and I am hoping that Eddie Obeng has rewritten it for us. Or perhaps at least guide us to rewrite the rules to success as business owners.
Old
Predictable and Cartesian
Forecasts
Command and Control
Strategy
Customer
More of the same
Growth
Hierarchy
Market Share
Management
Best Practice
Efficiency
Economies of Sale
Barriers to Entry
Wealth = Money = Value
Towns and Cities
New
Ambiguous and Chaotic
Learning
Self-Directed Teams/ Networks
Business Model
Stakeholder
Innovation
Sustainability
Virtual Organisations/Teams
Promoters and Communities
Leadership First
Design
Effectiveness and Differentiation
Evlove, Dominate or Die
Disruptive Technology
Wealth Isn’t Money Isn’t Value
Social Networks
How to Thrive in the New World?
As suggested by Eddie Obeng:
- Say AND, not OR
- Is your solution integrative?
- Assume Fair = Different, not Fair = Equal
- Does your solution recognize the need to tailor actions to meet different populations/needs?
- Change Dependence to Interdependence
- Is your solution capable of self-governance?
- Do nothing of no use!
- Is your solution designed to ensure focus on delivering to your goal of making money (delivering benefit to society)?
- Stakeholders rule OK!
- Is your solution designed around the people who have to deliver it and live with the results?
- Make time fit!
- To what extent have you scoped your solution to the possible rather than the nice-to-have, impossible?
- Chunk it or junk it!
- Have you reduced the scope to de-risk your solution appropriately?
- All constraints into meat space
- Have you ensured that your solution appropriately uses new technologies?
- Unlearn everything
- Have you ensured that your solution appropriately uses new knowledge?
- Don’t change anything!
- Have you taken into account the overall impact of change on your ability to deliver results?
- Loop it up
- Is your solution self-sustaining?
- Go virtual!
- Have you developed a solution with powerful results where the effect is more important than the form? Where technology enables beyond tradition?
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Works at iBizLeverage Web Services, Internet/website marketing company in Cebu Philippines, for SMBs (small- and medium-scale businesses).
