Most businesses operate in one of two modes: 1) a disorganized, ad-hoc, seat-of-the-pants mode or 2) a structured, lifeless, soulless, "well-run" mode. Both have their shortcomings.
First Mode: Ad-hoc, Seat-of-the-Pants Mode
The problems of the ad-hoc, seat-of-the-pants mode:
- Lack of predictability and control of the businesses success, profits, revenues, growth.
- Anxiety on the part of the business owners and executives.
- Lack of clarity, focus, confidence.
- Lack of a well-planned, charted course.
- Lack of discipline.
- Lack of order that results in stress and insecurity for everyone involved.
Such a business typically is an under-performing business with high turnover, anxious people, and even more anxious leaders and executives.
Second Mode: Structured, Lifeless Mode
The problems of the second mode:
- Stifled creativity.
- The business becomes a lifeless machine.
- The human creativity is stifled even crushed.
- The business operates at a fraction of its optimum level of performance because the creativity and wisdom of its people are not utilized.
- The people live a frustrated work-life because their creativity and wisdom, strengths and talents are not put to a good use.
- Result is an under-performing business with high turnover, erratic revenues and profitability and low margins.
A business typically starts in the first mode and then "graduates" to the second mode as it becomes successful in the marketplace.
Realistically speaking, a typical business is a mishmash of the two modes. In some of parts of it, it operates in the first mode. In others, it operates in the second mode. Sometimes the business swings between the two modes - over-adapts.
Third Mode: Conscious Structures
There is a third approach. This approach is not a combination of these two. It's not even a balance between these two. It's a different approach altogether.
In this approach:
- The intelligence of the human beings is used to create systems and structures as they do their activities.
- The structures of the business are inherently designed to not only "exploit" the inherent talents, wisdom and creativity of its people but also designed to nurture and bring out those that are yet undiscovered. This is what "True Learning" is.
- The business gets the stability, predictability and control of the structured approach yet retains and, in fact, enhances the potential of its people so that the business can grow and become profitable.
- There is no differentiation between the structures and the people. They are one and the same. The structures are a part of the people - their habits. The people are a very integral part of the structures.
- What connects the structures and the people is the "Aware/Conscious/Purposeful Habits." Habits - by definition - are unconscious - we do activities without consciously thinking about them. Conscious Habits are those activities that we carry out as efficiently as unconscious habits yet those who carry them out also are conscious of the fact that they can change them if they want to.
- Built into the business are mechanisms for changing people from frustrated individuals to people who willingly change their habits yet are cognizant of the fact that they can change those habits back to where they want them to be.
Tools to Develop Conscious StructuresSM
We help you develop Conscious StructuresSM by bringing you the following tools: - Ongoing training sessions.
- Coaching sessions.
- Breakthrough, yet proven human performance technologies, tools and systems.
- AMBICA's 7-layer model for human performance.
- Sandler Sales Institute.
- 360 Solutions.
- Jump Start Your Business Brain!
- Conscious HabitsTM tools.
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