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STRATEGIC THINKING SKILLS: SEEING TOMORROW... TODAY. SHRM of Greater Kansas City. Designed and Presented by Dr. Cal LeMon, Executive Enrichment, Inc.
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STRATEGIC THINKING SKILLS: SEEING TOMORROW... TODAY SHRM of Greater Kansas City Designed and Presented by Dr. Cal LeMon, Executive Enrichment, Inc.
You have just been talking to a foreign exchange student about some of the games you played as a child. This person has only been in the United States for three weeks.
The two of you have been sharing the unique differences between your cultures when it comes to playing games. In passing, you mention one of your favorite back-of-the-school-bus pastimes: Rock, Paper, Scissors. The foreign exchange student is having trouble understanding both the process and principle of this bit of childhood trivia.
After some prodding, you agree to instruct this student in the fine art of Rock, Paper, Scissors. What would be the first step to instructing this person who knows nothing about Rock, Paper, Scissors?
Business and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework our-selves, it’s doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead, we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get solved. -- The Fifth Discipline
Problem First System You Would Use • 1. Your car will not • start. • 2. You are coming • down with a cold. • You are taking a • hot shower and the • water turns ice cold.
New procedure or product introduced Push harder More management/ less leadership Increased internal or external advertising--a lot of workplace excitement “Make your numbers”-- less time for “people” Increased revenues New competition Increase # of staff
We keep repeating the same unsuccessful • systems…because they offer us “safety.” 2.Smart-risk-taking is the leadership skill most promoted and the least rewarded. • Exhaustion is a wonderful excuse for • remaining disengaged. • Money gets the qualified staff in the door • but it does not keep them there. 5.“Personal mastery” is possible for everyone.
Personal mastery is the (1) discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of (2) focusing our energies, of (3) developing patience, and of (4)seeing reality objectively. As such, it is an essential cornerstone of the learning organization -- the learning organization’s spiritual foundation. The Fifth Discipline
How do we reward antagonistic relationships between labor and management?
People do not leave a company, they leave a manager.-- First, Break All The Rules
Our analysis suggests that how people feel about working at the company can account for 20-30 percent of business performance.-- Primal Leadership
Percentage of workersin America who believe their managers act with honesty and integrity, according to a survey conducted for Age Wave and the Concours Group: 36%
Percentage who believe that management cares about advancing employee skills: 29%
Throughout the world there is a sense of momentous change taking place -- change so vast in scale that we are barely able to fathom its ultimate impact. Life as we know it is being altered in fundamental ways. -- The End Of Work
More than 800 million human beings are now unemployed or underemployed in the world.
Today, less than 17% of the workforce is engaged in blue collar work.
“Machines are the new proletariat…The working class is being given its walking papers.” -- Jacque Attali
“Economic Darwinism”
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you have.” --Emile Chartier
Deconstruct (take apart) your organization and then put it back together so only the parts that add profitability and build a sense of spirituality survive.
Deconstruction begins with a willingness to let go of the familiar
Disintermediation When providers and users of information can deal with each other directly, intermediaries often become obsolete.
When everyone can communicate richly with everyone else, the narrow, hardwired communications channels that used to tie people together simply become unnecessary.
So the greatest threat to newspapers is not the introduction of a new medium, but the slow erosion of advertising dollars.
Eighty-seven Percent of all reservations for Southwest Airlines are made by passengers on line.
How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
