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Re-evolution Has Begun

Up, up, up…a little anyway.  Our global economy is beginning to eak its way up the hill and businesses are responding by poking their corporate heads up. 

What I see happening in the marketplace is executives opening their doors, peaking out the window and taking small steps towards their “renewed” organizations.  Dealing with the rapid pace of the changes that have taken place demands a strong “constitution” as my father would say. Many organizations did the duck and cover maneuver holding tight and pulling in every appendage to weather the historic economic storm. 

Changes in the marketplace are here to stay, organizations are just now initiating their actions to renew and emerge as a re-evolved entity.  Realizations that global forces have changed, last year’s operating model is dead and new operating models must emerge are just now taking hold.  I have often talked about Organization Renewal in this blog and with my clients.  Most have had a bit of a tin ear.  Now’s the time to get a hearing aid fitted and listen up or be left behind.

Renewal begins with defining the possible, discarding old ideas of what was and look forward to what will be.  I read a piece today in ESPN The Magazine talking about a 16 year old from Southern California, Zac Sunderland, that embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe.  He’s very close to hitting home port in Marina Del Rey.  What struck me was this observation “people in ports always asked me where I was going next, not where I’ve been”.  This is the key to renewal.  Look to the next horizon.

In the world of business change it’s about defining the picture in vivid term of what will be.  Bringing together the organization and enrolling each and every individual in that vision.

My challenge to every business leader is to ask yourself this question every morning before you pop that first e-mail “Where am I going next?”

Happy adventuring!

June 9, 2009 - Posted by thechangedude | Uncategorized