Are You Ready for Emergence? It’s the Next Big Thing

Are You Ready for Emergence? It’s the Next Big Thing

Emergence occurs where an entity is observed to have properties and behavior that its parts do not have on their own and that emerge only after the parts interact and adapt. The world has recently been undergoing a huge restructuring that creates new groupings, new interactions, and new behaviors. Emerging from this process will almost certainly be a business environment quite unlike anything we have ever experienced. It cannot be predicted.

Creative Destruction: How to Be a Winner, Not a Victim

Creative Destruction: How to Be a Winner, Not a Victim

Economists talk often about creative destruction to describe the disruptive process of transformation that accompanies innovation. Politics is a common context but the more important story for businesses involves change. Change is life and will always be with us. It is not change itself but your response to change that determines whether you win or lose.

Lockdowns as Opportunity? How Can This Be Compassionate?

Lockdowns as Opportunity? How Can This Be Compassionate?

The “brief” lockdowns, promised in March 2020, seem to have morphed into something more or less permanent – worldwide. One may argue that the basis for any continuation is deeply flawed but with most of the governments and media fully on board with the pandemic story, lockdowns may be with us – indefinitely. Might this actually be an opportunity?

Agility + Adaptability are Key to Success in the New Whatever

Agility + Adaptability are Key to Success in the New Whatever

Whatever is coming next is not foreseeable despite being termed the “New Normal”. It will surely be New but Normal? Not a chance. It will be very different and nothing like what most people expect. Business success in the New Whatever will require great organizational agility and adaptability. Does your business have what it takes?