Once we experience success we start to export our process to others. This is successful until the world changes and makes our process obsolete. Democracy has been questioned and our next process choice has been the China controlled economy. We have already experienced that communism isn’t a good solution. The grass seems better at our competition. The reality is that the grass is brown everywhere. This week we will examine where we should stretch our beliefs.
Surveys
Voting and surveys are tools used by most companies. Unfortunately both deliver faulty messages. The leadership and boards need to have the power to override the decisions. We have found that the people who vote and take surveys register their support for personal items that will benefit them or are opinions shared by people they respect. Steve Jobs and Henry Ford do not believe in surveys. They believed that the customers were biased by the status quo.
Expiration Dates
Our skills need an expiration date like milk. Cows continue to make milk and we continue to perform tasks that are known and comfortable. Change is difficult because we have excelled using our legacy tasks. As the world evolves we need to evolve as well. The pandemic showed our legacy problems. Now we need to address these issues.
Command and Control
The command and control structure doesn’t work. The new generation has told us that we are not the boss of them. We need to earn their respect and a declaration of we are the boss doesn’t work. This change is frustrating for the new bosses, but it is reality. The bosses need to communicate how they can help by maintaining control. This is challenging. We need to adapt to and loose the phrase that this is the way we do it. That way might not work and we need to educate our colleagues why.
I Quit!
The pandemic changed our world. We need to pivot and expand our legacy views to the new realities.
We hope you had a good 4th 💥
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