Turn Barbie
Developing better thinking problems by irresistible forces to turn profitable opportunities
How can you deal with a world that is not predictable? Let's see an example.
The toy company is full of hits and misses. Worse, one year top toys usually fades into the background in the following year.
Witness the miracle of sustainability than Barbie's, after a top toy and head of a top line of dolls and related merchandise for many years. Although all toy makers want long term toys, only a few have succeeded in overcoming the irresistible force of the changing tastes of children to an ongoing success, like Barbie and her doll friends.
You can learn how to behavior in your organization that will keep you from making the kind of sustained growth that irresistible Mattel has enjoyed Barbie overcome. Irresistible forces are not stopping our events and factors that shape opportunities and challenges.
In the physical sense, these include things we can not change like the tides, winds and severe storms. In human terms, they include the emotional patterns that almost all of us to follow, as sad about the loss of a loved one or elated by winning.
In the organizational dimension, irresistible forces include difficulty in communicating in a foreign language, lack of knowledge to new employees about how your organization does things, and conflicts of interest between those looking for customer needs ahead of itself.
In business, irresistible forces include trends in technology development, globalization, shifts in consumer purchasing power in local markets, and increasingly demanding customers. Interestingly, each company is subject to irresistible forces in different ways. Nobody breakthrough solution will be enough for everyone, as a result.
Irresistible forces can be started by us in some cases, as when we encourage a new craze, but we usually have little effect on them after they start. Irresistible forces are so powerful and important to use as resources for success, you should avoid either opposing or being plagued by these forces.
Bad thinking habits, or modes, of individuals in organizational settings are the main reason that companies fall prey to irresistible forces, rather than turning them into powerful allies and tools for faster, more profitable growth.
The dangers and opportunities offered by irresistible forces grow and will probably continue to do in the future. Evidence of this pattern is the rapid decreasing amount of time it takes for a start-up organization to one billion U.S. dollars in revenue (as measured in constant purchasing power) to achieve. Once this task requires decades (without acquisitions). Now companies can do well in months by using a rapidly growing means of communication, the Internet. Within a few decades, the same will happen in days, or possibly even hours.
Therefore, overcoming irresistible power stalls is one of the most important management skills needed to determine the opportunities and respond positively to them now and in the future in a timely manner. Even an organization that began in perfect alignment with irresistible force will be agile to adapt to changes in the forces and the arrival of new forces in time. You must learn the most common and dangerous as food stalls? Identifiable irresistible forces. You can also benefit form develop skills in this fast switching stalls by changing your habits through the use of new questions, so you and your company can not only survive, but enjoy irresistible growth.
You'll probably find that overcoming stalled thinking (harmful habits) about irresistible forces will be the easiest to understand and apply when you focus first on one important area where irresistible forces appear to be wind (slow your growth) and crosswind (push you off target from where you're want) for your organization.
Then you these ideas with half irresistible force issue in mind. And then you go from there to working on other things until this way of dealing with irresistible forces is a new habit for you.
Copyright 2008 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved
About the Author
Donald Mitchell is chairman of Mitchell and Company, a strategy and financial consulting firm in Weston, MA. He is coauthor of seven books including Adventures of an Optimist, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, and The Ultimate Competitive Advantage. You can find free tips for accomplishing 20 times more by registering at:
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