Thought Tweet #550 Plan to make major changes...and help your people be prepared for major changes.

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

We are living through the Future Shock Alvin Toffler wrote about 40 years ago. The pace of change is accelerating.

And:

"When the individual is plunged into a fast and irregularly changing situation, or a novelty-loaded context, however, his predictive accuracy plummets.  He can no longer make the reasonably correct assessments on which rational behavior is dependent."

Alvin Toffler

'Future Shock', (1970)

Thought Tweet #549 You can help your employees maintain and grow a positive mental attitude. Here's how...

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

For example, here's an excerpt from Boyé Lafayette De Menthe's ‘The Japanese Samurai Code’, (2004)

Talking about how Japanese companies go about building positive mental attitude...

“These companies follow a set of four principles in creating the mental attitude they want their employees to have.

These four principles are: (a) to have a basic business philosophy that provides a clear reason for the existence of the enterprise, along with management practices to fulfill this philosophy; (2) the precepts of the company philosophy must be ingrained in the minds of the employees to the point that they will instinctively behave according to the precepts; (3) that employees must be trained to work without constraint, have a strong sense of responsibility and be creative in their approach to everything they do; and (4) that all employees be trained to develop a sense of social responsibility.”

Thought Tweet #548 Evolution of business: it's about survival of those most adaptable...ensure your DNA contains imagination and insight.

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Global commoditization is accelerating and it will cut deeply into both products and services. Only the most-adaptable [the most-creative and the most-innovative and the most-disciplined] businesses will survive and thrive.