"If you don't have a goal, you will score zero even if you run with the fastest speed." -- Israelmore Ayivor, African author and blogger.
| The Fast Beating the Slow: The Need for Speed in Modern Business |
According to some futurists, there may come a time when technology evolves so rapidly we won't be able to keep up with it. At that point, the future will become completely unpredictable. They call this the Singularity—and some believe it's just around the corner. In the business world, change already moves at a breakneck pace. No longer do three-to five-year strategic plans suffice.
As I've pointed out in my latest book, Execution IS the Strategy, static plans go stale within months. Indeed, some companies are reviewing strategy quarterly or even monthly. Front-line employees must have the permission and the flexibility to work with any tactics available to them in order to execute in the moment—to do what's required to achieve company goals. Communications mogul Rupert Murdoch captured this concept perfectly when he noted, "The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow." Murdoch knows about speed. After his father died in 1952, 21-year-old Rupert inherited control of the family's newspaper, the Adelaide News. He immediately set about acquiring other news outlets, a process that accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s until he'd built
the second-biggest media conglomerate in the world, News Corporation. He still controls its daughter companies, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, which split in 2013. On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! You may not be another Murdoch, but there's no reason you can't try to be. Implement these strategies in your quest for
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1. Streamline workflow processes. I've written reams about the need to
constantly tweak your workflow: by trying new things, clearing the path for your team, slashing bureaucracy, replacing broken and underperforming parts, and occasionally overhauling the whole work-engine if necessary. Ultimately, it reduces to a persistent, almost subconscious situational awareness of your team's productivity from moment to moment, combined with a willingness to step forward and make the relevant changes if your people don't do so on their own. As a leader, you're responsible
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