Evolving Companies ~ Creative vitality through ideation. How do you create energy in a stangnant team totally uninterested to change? You ask them to ideate. You inspire them to think outside of their current circumstance. In essence, you ask them to dream a better dream. Continue reading Evolving Companies: Creative vitality through ideation
Evolving Companies ~ Change requires emotion. The hardest part of evolving a company is changing people. People are complex. Their motivations are often based on fears and other emotions. Simply educating them will prove totally inefficient. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Change Requires Emotion
Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Dysfunction: When looking forward, project key organizational dysfunctions. When feeding growth, do they disappear or become potential threats? You growth strategy must account for these weaknesses. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Dysfunction
Evolving Companies ~ Assess Personal Sacrifice: Reality is your vision will not go exactly as planned. Assess the amount of work, time, and finances you are willing to commit. Draw those as hard lines to use later (when emotionally vested) as guideposts to know when to step back or even walk away. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess Personal Sacrifice
Evolving Companies ~ Assess Scalability: How agile is your plan to scale up and down in response to market demand, funding, or physical ability to grow? Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess Scalability
Evolving Companies ~ Assess Complexity: Simplify before a period of growth. Complexity will slow down or even stagnate growth. Simplicity brings clarity and makes change faster and easier to execute. Simplicity increases your agility. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess Complexity
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