Stealing From The Future: Decaffeinate Your Strategy. Business Leaders steal from their future the same way coffee robs from our sleep.
Have you ever reported a “win” to a boss and they were visibly disgusted? You probably broke one of the laws outlined by Robert Greene in “The 48 Laws of Power”, you never outshine your boss!
“genetics loads the gun but the environment pulls the trigger”. This term highlights the complex relationship between human disease and the environment. In a similar vein, in organisations, an imbalance of androgens loads the gun and the business environment pulls the trigger.
The problem of Ready, Ready, Ready, Aim, Aim is exasperated by the characteristics of disruptive technologies. Such innovations enable new markets, so how can you possibly aim when there is nothing to aim at?
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Well-fed horses Don’t Rampage – Plugging The Education Gap.
Organisations, like individuals, need a forest fire every so often, otherwise the deadwood piles up and latent potential remains trapped. When we burn off the deadwood in the form of legacy products, dying business (and mental) models and employee turnover, we create space for new growth and the saplings of change. In today’s business world of rapid change, we need to be in charge of the forest fire and control the burn before it runs amok.
To restrain long-term employees from falling back into their old habits. Even when long-term employees have the willpower, their old habits die hard. It is a tough dilemma for leaders, the tradeoff between retraining and replacing. Either way, there is a lot of pain, both are possible.
The “crabs in a barrel” or “crab theory” is a metaphor to describe the tendency of whenever someone gets ahead, others from their community try to pull them right back down again.
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