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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
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“In a fast changing environment, it is hard to anticipate where the best ideas are going to come from. It’s highly unlikely these will always come from the management team sitting around a board table. Allow a broader team to contribute to problem-solving of sparking ideas and innovation. None of this lessens the need for agility, consistent communication and clear target setting to sit on top of empowered and skilled teams. Clarity of vision and communicating this to our teams, with milestones and targets set along the way, has never been more vital. Managing change will often result in the need to alter tactics, drop projects and to direct focus to opportunities that arise that were not anticipated at the outset. This is all part of managing change and teams are remarkable agile and indeed resilient when they are given real insight into decision making.”
Nancy Cruickshank, Executive Director of Digital Development for Telegraph Media Group writes in the May edition of Revolution Magazine.
Great ideas can come from anyone and anywhere in a business (see our film at http://marketingstatements.com/about) which is why we form a task-force, made up of a cross section of people involved in an organisation, who lead and drive the transformation effort.
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This incredible man has transformed the lives of thousands of children in Venezuela, through music. As business leaders we can learn many lessons from his story. A strong vision, share values, motivation, communication, dedication and hard work can enable change.
Truly inspiring.
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“Competence is the enemy of change! Competent people resist change. Why? Because change threatens to make them less competent. And competent people like being competent. That’s who they are, and sometimes that’s all they’ve got…Do you work for a competent company? A company in which people are hired because they’ve done a certain job before, in which the upward path is slow and the sideways path is non exisistent? Such companies are especially frustrating to the internal (or the external) change agent…In the face of change, the competent are helpless. Change means a temporary threat to their competence.” – Seth Godin
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“Each banking organisation will need to consider how to achieve a transition to a very different world,” said KPMG head of retail banking David Sayer.
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McKinsey recently conducted a survey, they concluded that progressive transformations have a higher success rate than defensive ones, and we wholeheartedly agree.
“Most companies find it hard to transform themselves in difficult circumstances.
It’s relatively rare for transformation programs to succeed; many surveys, including our own, put the success rate at less than 40 percent. Our recent research, however, underscores the fact that certain tactics promote successful outcomes. The most important tactics are setting clear and high aspirations and targets, exercising strong leadership from the top, creating an unambiguous structure for the transformation, and maintaining energy and involvement throughout the organization.
Companies that used all of these tactics succeeded more than 80 percent of the time.
The same research also shows that what we call defensive transformations (those undertaken to stem trouble) have lower success rates than progressive ones (launched, for instance, to boost growth or to move from good to great performance). This finding seems to contradict the common wisdom that it is hardest to transform a company when it lacks an acute and apparent need for change.
In our experience, however, while employees are more likely to see the need for change when a company is in crisis, this advantage is outweighed by difficult circumstances.”
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“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
Ideas are associated with change and must be sold – to directors, to managers, to employees and often also by them to customers, suppliers and shareholders – before they are accepted.
We promote new ideas, analyse the competitive forces that are driving change in your industry or market, highlight opportunities, overcome barriers and create an appropriate environment to persuade your directors, managers and employees to put these ideas into use…for the great benefit of your business or organisation.
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Change is the only thing that will remain constant.
The longer and deeper the recession, the more likely consumers will adjust their attitudes and behaviors permanently. Don’t assume a return to normal.
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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
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