Are You ready for the
Big Quake, the Perfect Storm?
Business executives are bombarded with forecasts, pundit analyses and trend information
on a daily basis. Meant to be helpful and stimulating, the volume, the contradictions and complexities more
often induce denial, paralysis and bewilderment.
It's easier to focus on the tactical and operational.
Fortunately, obsession with quarterly results aids and encourages short term, blinkered thinking. Companies pay lip service
to "thinking outside the box" but, realistically, prefer the safe confines of their boardrooms and trusted community
of "experienced" advisors.
This stance is pure folly. At times of such fundamental
change and dislocation, strategic not tactical thinking is vital. Does your organisation need a Wake Up Call? What's
it going to take to see that it's not business as usual - and, if it is conducted that way, are its days not numbered?
Global business is being conducted along a fault line
separating two very different continents of thought; two ways of viewing the world and our role as human beings in it. One
tectonic plate is sliding beneath another and friction produces shocks and turbulence along the way.
If enterprises wish to survive, they must invest in
understanding what's going on beneath the surface and the interplay of forces and improve their chances of anticipating
when and where the next shock will occur begin to shake their foundations.
Business For Good can be YOUR Early Warning System!
We've made it our business to study the tectonic forces
and shock lines in order to anticipate likely outcomes and danger zones. We then work with senior executives and your teams
to identify and evaluate potential responses.
Remember, responses aren't always reactive and defensive.
The most successful companies are those that anticipated a new fissure, interpreted at as an opportunity and then moved with
speed and determination to fill the crack!
The Early Warning System includes:
1. Executive briefings that provide a "big
picture" of change.
Understanding requires a robust conceptual framework on
which the detail can be attached. Our briefings can be one hour, one half day or one day in length depending on your tolerance
and comfort level. They are tailored to your business or association and can be structured for small interactive groups (
an executive team or board directors) or presentations to larger audiences (employees, association members, partners etc.)
These briefings look at:
a. The Tectonic Forces - our sense of
space, time, science, technology, people and resources;
b. The Shocks - weak spots along the
fault line where quakes and volcanic eruptions are most evident and frequent -
c. The Fall Out - this is the "Rock
'N Roll" part! Our (yours and our) anticipations of how the business community is and might respond when the edifices of conventional
thought start rocking and toppling.
For more, information on how these briefings can wake
up your team, please click here.
2. Community:
Recipients of our Briefings become members of an exclusive
BusinessForGood community that can access an online portal linked to in-depth information compiled on each of the tectonic
forces, shocks and fallouts and, as importantly be linked directly to a community of peers in business (other participants)
and experts in the field. This enables and encourages continuous learning and sustains a state of awareness and curiosity.
The portal also saves your executives valuable time. Their energy needs to be focused on application and implmentation. Our
role is to support and save them time and money.
