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TAKE, SHAKE OR BREAK
Written by: Harvey SchillerArticle Overview: Business is simple, all you have to do is TAKE, SHAKE OR BREAK. But, good Take, Shake and Break decisions and practices are essential to the continuing success of any enterprise.
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TAKE, SHAKE OR BREAK
A mentor of mine once told me that business is relatively simple. All you have to do is TAKE, SHAKE or BREAK!
That’s the core task for the management of any enterprise; to decide
how the business is to be run and explicitly understand what we take as givens, what we shake up with minor or major overhauls, and what we break entirely and then remake.
Sounds simple, but two things stand in the way. First,
organizations don’t always know the basic components and elements that
are fundamental to running the business. I recently asked a gathering
of CEO’s to articulate what the dimensions of value their customers
care about. It was astounding that a good number of these CEO’s were
not focally aware of the basic values important to their customers.
They simply don’t recognize or understand the “take”.
The second thing that stands in the way is that organizations don’t
readily perceive a need to change or aren’t willing to endure the
difficulties and unpleasantness required to renovate or transform an
organization. At the same gathering of CEO’s, it became clear that
they were sophisticated and knowledgeable leaders that were steeped in
the techniques of operating a business, but with little experience in
transforming one. They simply did not possess the skill relating to
“shake” and “break”.
There are several attitudinal, behavioral and knowledge characteristics that can help:
- Be paranoid. Andy Grove of Intel’s motto is “only the paranoid survive”.
- Embrace diversity of opinion and perspective. Surround yourself with people who see things differently.
- Search for change, and then act on change
- Work “on” the business, not just “in” the business
- Extend beyond your management team.
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