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Thought Tweet #667

by Rick Baker
On Feb 5, 2013

Thought Tweet #667 Business leaders need to help their people adapt by creating Change-Opportunities


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Leaders are in the best position to create Change-Opportunities. If leaders don’t create Change-Opportunities then their best workers will…by seeking work elsewhere or becoming entrepreneurs. If leaders don’t create Change-Opportunities then their best clients will…by seeking a new supplier.

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Thought Tweet #664

by Rick Baker
On Jan 31, 2013

Thought Tweet #664 Are we doomed to a massive adaptational breakdown?

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

"...the roaring current of change, a current so powerful today that it overturns institution, shifts our values and shrivels our roots"

"...we are doomed to a massive adaptational breakdown"

Alvin Toffler, `Future Shock`, (1970)


PS: I think not...just a period of adaptational confusion.

Thought Tweet #663

by Rick Baker
On Jan 30, 2013

Thought Tweet #663 When using the past to predict the future, choose only the proper pieces of your past as guides.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

People love to make predictions... https://rickbaker.ca/post/2012/12/18/Thought-Tweet-632.aspx

"Rational behavior, in particular, depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment."

Alvin Toffler, 'Future Shock', (1970)

 

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Change: Creating Positive Change | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #658

by Rick Baker
On Jan 23, 2013

Thought Tweet #658 Jog a mile in the other person's shoes.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

  1. The times are a-changing...at a fast & ever-increasing pace.
  2. Walk a mile in the other guy's shoes...old but good advice...assuming you actually know how to walk a mile in your own.
  3. Baby Steps: crawl before you walk, walk before you jog, jog before you run, & run before you sprint & do hurdles.
  4. Talk the Talk, Walk The Walk, & Run the Run.
 

Getting the People part right

by Rick Baker
On Dec 27, 2012

Business contains only 3 things: People, Process, & Situations

And in this new era, if leaders don't get the People part right - their businesses fail.

That last sentence was qualified by the words "in this new era". In this new era, if leaders don't get the People part right then their businesses will fail. 

Q: What's changed? 

Q: What's escalated to importance of getting the People part right?

A1: Technology has changed & escalated. 

A2: People have changed & escalated.

Handful of examples & explanations:

  • Technology has changed: this point can be summed up in one word - Google. 
  • The pace of Technology has escalated exponentially - from slide rule to electronic calculator to PC to iPhone and in less than 40 years.
  • Technology & People have changed: from closed/corporate-created Encyclopedia Britannica to open/volunteer-created Wikipedia in less than a generation. [the "Information Free-For-All"]
  • People have changed: they read differently now...tending to scan and look for small bullets of information rather than wading through paragraphs. 
  • The pace of People's lives has escalated: from multiple cars taking-kids-to-sports-events-and-lots-of-other-after-hours-activities to 5,000 advertising hits per day, [the "Attention-Getting Dilemma"...the "Attention Free-For-None"].

Yes, Leaders need to know their People are experiencing:

  1. an Information Free-For-All
  2. an Attention Free-For-None.
These are New Things [in the context of People Only Do 3 Things: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things].

People struggle with New Things.

Leaders are uniquely positioned to help People remove/reduce their struggles.

Helping People understand and handle the Information Free-For-All and the Attention Free-For-None situation as it applies to business, that's one way Leaders can get the People part right.

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Thought Tweet #631

by Rick Baker
On Dec 17, 2012

Thought Tweet #631 Business Leaders must help people handle the Information Free-For-All and the Attention Free-For-None situation.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet 

Information Free-For-All

The Pros include:

  • the creation of Wikipedia, by volunteers contributing over more than 100,000,000 hours of information entry,
  • real-time access to worldwide information,
  • fantastic education and entertainment in a small smart phone...or an even smaller device if you wish
  • the ability to connect 7/24/anywhere
  • ever-increasing and improving measurement capabilities

The Con is Attention Free-For-None.

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