Enter your text here...Everything that exists has been created twice: Firstly the mental creation through your thoughts, ideas and plans – and secondly the physical creation through your actions, behavior and work.
Imagine - what is possible (Be)
Create - simple but powerful strategies and plans (Do)
Realize - the rewards (Have)
We love the philosophy of former GE CEO Jack Welch; "when the rate of change outside your organisation is faster than the rate of change inside your organisation - then you have a problem"
Fact. Our world is changing faster every day.
It is becoming more connected, networked, leveraged, customised, 'social', personalised and instant. There are greater choices, competition (direct and indirect), stimulation, noise and more possibilities. Gaining the attention of customers is harder, and servicing their needs more complex. Brands are becoming more powerful, the brand landscape more complex, and customer churn can happen in a heart beat.
Some companies are becoming successful faster than ever, in some cases creating millionaires overnight. Predictably, those that aren’t reacting to the changing world are becoming irrelevant at an alarming rate.
And so whilst most in business accept that change is inevitable, we subscribe to the approach that “growth” is intentional.
Which leads to a critical question that every business owner should be asking themselves. How do you intend responding to our rapidly changing world and business environment?
The way we see it there are only two choices (well, just one really). You can become a victim of change. Or you can use this unique moment in time as a powerful motivator and catalyst to innovate, invigorate and transform your businesses.
Our world is changing faster than ever before and more dramatically than most people know and understand – it is time to wake up and innovate!
For decades, the organisations that have achieved the greatest reward and meaning are those that:
Here's the trick:
For the 3Y0 crew 2019 was a thoroughly fascinating and rewarding year. Like everyone else we had to get our heads around the fact that 2019 was a year that once again rebased many businesses (how many on the trot is that now?)
Globally and locally it was a year of big winners and big losers. Equally valuable lessons came from both sides of the ledger for those who were willing to embrace both winning and losing as true learning experiences.
Fact is two things made a real difference:
First, The decisions you made (or didn't make) and
Second, the actions you took (or didn't take)
Despite the hype, despite the stories, despite the numbers, despite the currency, the capital markets and the banks, despite consumer confidence surveys, commodity prices and technology trends – for most in business the year came down to just two things.
Too simple? Not really.
Success belongs to those who respond quickly, adapt to an ever changing playing field, make big decisions early, access and leverage the ideas, talent and resource they need to execute. And most importantly then followed through despite the noise and distraction going on around them.
We observed plenty of local businesses struggling in a flat market. Sure, the economy and general trading environment didn’t help but at the risk of upsetting a few people our observation is that most of the struggle came from within.
Why the struggle? Well, speaking from my own personal experience – most struggle comes from our not being fully awake and 'present' for the full experience of the moment.
In other words, if someone is spending more time pondering why things should be different – than focusing on what is, then they will surely be deep in struggle. Brian Tracy has a lovely saying, “deal with things as they are, not as you’d like them to be.”
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