Successful businesses don't just happen . . . . . . . . . . . . An extraordinary business begins with you, as a leader of the organization.
Time-honored business skills and strategies are indispensable in a traditional environment, but have now been shown to be useful yet insufficient for today's fast changing environment. The future arises from a constant stream of actions, choices, decisions and strategies that have to be made in the present with as much conscious awareness, foresight, skill, astuteness and wisdom possible.
Furthermore, many conventional treasured values, points of view and ways of thinking are all shifting radically, making it very difficult to plan ahead in the traditional sense and prepare for future challenges and opportunities. Leaders today have to constantly be making decisions in an environment of uncertainty. In current times we have observed many people being driven to irrational decisions based on their scarcity viewpoints and uncertainty. The mere existence of the unknown as well as the uncertainty seems to affect how people make decisions. Some people suffer apprehension from the need to make decisions between one unknown and another.
Thriving in tough times Part 1: Traditional business models Just Don't Work!
What have you already decided is your business? Are you willing to look at your business differently? What are good businesses looking at? Ditch your strategic plan, and create strategic awareness through your business. What do we mean by strategic awareness? How should we be viewing our business today?
Thriving in tough times Part 2: Scarcity vs Prosperity as a point of view
How can we look at our business differently? Do we see our business through the lense of scarcity? The four lies of scarcity and their effect on how we make decisions in our business.
Thriving in tough times Part 3: Five things to do before the end of the year
Ask some great questions of your business. Destroy and uncreate all you have decided you have right abut your business-what else can I add to my business. Have conversations with staff and key stakeholders. What do we do so well, yet we don't value it?Establish key trigger points. Be aware of all your points of view that are creating your business.
Preparing for Economic Change-Intro: Open up your awareness to perceive all the changes coming.
Creating an Extraordinary Business and Extraordinary Life. What can we do to prepare for changes in our business environment?How do we be "aware" without buying into other peoples judgements?
Preparing for Change- when everyone else is Doom and Gloom:
How do I choose to be aware? What questions should I be asking? What else can I add to my business?
Intuition and energy:
How do we tap into our intuition? Most of us experience ‘gut feelings' we can't explain, such as instant dislike, or connection, or the snap opinion we have on something. Now researchers say these feelings are our awareness and they are real and we should take note of our hunches.
Are you willing to look at your business from a very different point of view?
Look at everything that you and your organization have assumed or decided you have got right, which is no longer working for you, and identify other ways that you might undertake whatever is not working for your business.