For many years, people have had to choose between living in a lovely place near their family and being able to interact with more people in less attractive, more crowded places to gain new understanding and accomplish more. Those who live in an idyllic place blessed with flowers, music, and good weather find considering the alternative is painful and unattractive despite the apparent...
How do you choose your partners? Chances are that you primarily consider their ability to help you execute your plans. That's a good idea.
Partners can also do more than that? They can be a window into places you cannot go on your own. In choosing partners, keep that vantage point value in mind.
Partners are also an important source of information about the identity and direction of...
Chances are that you see competitors as those you must best. In sales calls, your sales force is good at explaining why nobody does it better than you do. When you drive by their facilities, you are probably struck by how meek and unimpressive they are.
Just because you are trouncing your competitor doesn't mean that your competitor cannot teach you important lessons that will expand future...
What kinds of relationships do you try to create with your suppliers?
Suppliers are an often-ignored source of information about irresistible forces. Your firm's suppliers know a lot about what you're doing wrong, but they seldom tell you.
Why? Because no one in your organization usually wants to listen.
Supplies are often bought against detailed specifications through your company's...
"Experience teaches you to recognize a mistake when you've made it again." --Unknown
Many irresistible forces go totally unnoticed by the organizations they affect. This article shows you the value of continuously measuring all aspects of an enterprise's environment in order to detect, quantify, and track those forces. When it comes to irresistible force management, only constant assessment...
When you visit your primary physician, someone will take a number of your measurements including your height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, and results of blood and other tests. From this information, your physician draws a base line for comparing your current situation with your past, how you compare to others similar to you, and what would be desirable for you in the future.
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Businesses are finding that real-time feedback can be extremely valuable to their success. Consider mail-order shopping, for example.
Let's say you bought a certain set of items a few years ago and nothing similar since. When the catalog seller thinks it may be time for you to replace these items, you will be prompted to do so the next time you call to place an order for anything.
If...
"An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain." --Unknown
To create the ideal alignment with irresistible forces, the bad mental habits, or stalls, need to be eliminated and replaced with a new set of better habits. It is not enough to stop fighting irresistible forces. What you must do is to capture the benefit of these irresistible forces.
In this article I present...
You can overcome the effects of the underestimation stall by identifying and using the irresistible forces that are less threatening to your enterprise. For example, carefully analyzing your target customers and considering the way you serve them will enable you to sidestep certain irresistible forces in favor of others.
Which irresistible forces that you face now could you avoid if you...
Conservative financing Is the right foundation for the irresistible growth enterprise. Borrowing money enhances risk, and voluntarily taking on greater risk that is avoidable will normally be a bad idea when dealing with irresistible forces.
If you succeed in capturing the potential momentum of the irresistible force, you'll never be able to retire the debt; you'll simply be refinancing...
