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The Power of Big Idea Thinking: Think Smarter, Faster, Create Value– Driving Imagination Beyond Abstraction
The Big Idea is the only thing with the ability to attract enough people around a new concept when real change is needed in an organization… ~Winfried Schoepf– Big ideas guide us to put our brain to work… ~Rodrigo Borgia– … Continue reading
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Global Innovation Barometer–2013: Unconventional Strategy Unlocks New Drivers for Innovation– Pushing Comfort Zones
Innovation rules are changing, globally, and companies must reinvent their strategy in order to stay competitive, drive growth and contribute meaningfully to the economy… For innovation to flourish, you must embrace a new innovation paradigm that promotes collaboration between all … Continue reading
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Building-Managing a Business without Borders– Borderless Global Business: World is Flat… Baloney, Borderless is Myth
Borderless business–‘world is flat’: Three primary changes at the dawn of the 21st century are the keys to the changing world. One, addition of China, India, the former Soviet Union and other countries with a combined population of 3 billion … Continue reading
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Understand Business Cycle– Upward-Boom, Downward-Bust– Economic Movements-Shifts: Critical for Good Decision-Making
Business cycle is a fundamental, and yet elusive concept in macro-economics… it’s a pattern of economic booms-and-busts– economy-wide trends– that can have significant impact on businesses… The term business cycle (or economic cycle) refers to economy-wide fluctuations in production, trade… … Continue reading
Scenario Planning– Thinking Future-Uncertainity-Unexpected: Strategic Playbook-Plans to Navigate Tomorrow and Beyond…
Scenario planning is discipline for discovering the entrepreneurial power of creative foresight in contexts of accelerated change, greater complexity, and genuine uncertainty. ~Pierre Wack… In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. … Continue reading
Pandemic Crisis and Business Continuity: Management Planning and Preparedness– Critical…Waste of Time…
Pandemic crisis: The goal is to get through it– meaning stay alive. Staying alive requires planning even for an event that many think is unlikely; but it’s happened and it will probably happen again… so, it’s important to be prepared… … Continue reading
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Rethink and Reinvigorate Marketing for 2013: Maximize Impact– Paradigmatic Shift in Marketing Strategy… Market Trends–2013
Marketing: It’s the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future. ~Clay Shikry Competitive marketing means staying … Continue reading
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Management by Fuzzy: Decision-Making in Environments of Ambiguity, Uncertainty– Tough Decisions with Fuzzy Logic
In the world of fuzzy logic, two statements can be both true– even though they contradict each other. Humans have a remarkable capability to reason and make decisions in an environment of uncertainty, imprecision, incompleteness… of information. Fuzzy logic is … Continue reading
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Management by Panic: Overcome the Crisis du Jour Panic– UnPush the Panic Button– Think, Pause, Avoid, Trust…
Email to Employees: Don’t Panic– Everything is Under Control!!! ~CEO Tell it like it is. Tough times demand tough talk and you owe it to your people to be honest and truthful. Don’t gloss over serious concerns, but focus on … Continue reading
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Igniting Business Growth– Shift from Fear to Fearless: Sharpen Drivers, Break Barriers, Release Brakes, Overcome Plateau…
Business growth: Impatience is an outcome of restlessness. Restlessness is the outcome of an incubated idea. Once the idea virus gets in, it leads to restlessness and action… The impatience of one person gets enlarged and, next, the entire associated … Continue reading
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