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Why in the World did you go to Siberia?
Enterprise* ** (*at its best):An emotional, vital, innovative, joyful, creative, entrepreneurial endeavor that elicits maximum concerted human potential in the wholeheartedservice of others.****Employees, Customers, Suppliers, Communities, Owners, Temporary partners
Dedicated to David O. Stewart, author of The Summer of 1787; William Easterly, author of The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Effort to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and so Little Good; Jerome Groopman, author of How Doctors Think, and Ben Franklin, Norman Schwarzkopf & HRH Edward VII
“eighty percent of success is showing up.” —Woody Allen
“The West spent … $2.3trillionon foreign aid over the last five decades and still has not managed to get twelve-cent medicines to children to prevent half of all malaria deaths.
“eighty percent of success is showing up.” —Woody Allen
18’ Source: How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman
Over-rated:Big companies!Public companies!“Cool” industries!Stability (“Built to last”)!Famous CEOs!
*Basement Systems Inc.*Larry Janesky*Dry Basement Science(100,000+ copies!)*1990: $0; 2003: $13M; 2007: $62,000,000
Black Swan:This is how you earn your pay!* ***See: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb**WSC: “When the seas are calm all ships alike show mastership in sailing.”
Internal organizational Character/excellence = Deepest “Blue Ocean”
“Mapping your competitive position”*or …*Rich D’Aveni/HBR
1. Have you in the last 10days …visited a customer?2. Have you called a customer … TODAY? * * *
Conrad Hilton, at a gala celebrating his life, was asked, “What was the most important lesson you’ve learned in you long and distinguished career?” His immediate answer: “remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub”
“Women are the majority market”—Fara Warner/The Power of the Purse
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “People turning 50 today have more thanhalf of their adult life ahead of them.”—Bill Novelli, 50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America
“We made mistakes, of course. Most of them were omissions we didn’t think of when we initially wrote the software. We fixed them by doing it over and over, again and again. We do the same today. While our competitors are still sucking their thumbs trying to make the design perfect, we’re already on prototype version#5.By the time our rivals are ready with wires and screws, we are on version #10.It gets back to planning versus acting: We act from day one; others plan how toplan—for months.”—Bloomberg by Bloomberg
“This is so simple it sounds stupid, but it is amazing how few oil people really understand that you only find oil if you drill wells.You may think you’re finding it when you’re drawing maps and studying logs, but you have to drill.” Source: The Hunters, by John Masters, Canadian O & G wildcatter
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”—WayneGretzky
We are the company we keep
The “Are What You Eat Axiom”:At its core, every (!!!) relationship-partnership decision (employee, vendor, customer, etc) is a strategic decision about: “Innovate, ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ ”
Measure “Strangeness”/Portfolio QualityStaffConsultantsVendorsOut-sourcing Partners (#, Quality)Innovation Alliance PartnersCustomersCompetitors (who we “benchmark” against)Strategic Initiatives Product Portfolio (LineEx v. Leap)IS/IT ProjectsHQ LocationLunch MatesLanguageBoard
“Every child is born an artist. The trick is to remain an artist.”—Picasso