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Most businesses operate in one of two modes: 1) a disorganized, ad-hoc, seat-of-the-pants mode or 2) a structured, lifeless, soul-less, "well-run" mode. Both have their shortcomings. 

 

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 - looking for that "groove" that it sometimes finds but in most cases, does not.

 

 

The problems of the ad-hoc, seat-of-the-pants mode are:

 

  • 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.
 

The problems of the second mode:
 

  • The business is a lifeless machine.
  • Human creativity, wisdom and gifts are is stifled, even crushed.
  • Business operates at a fraction of its optimum performance because its not utilizing the people's full potential.
  • People live a frustrated work-life because their full potential is not unlocked and realized.
  • Result is an under-performing business with high turnover, and mediocre revenues, profitability, margins.

 

A business typically starts in the first mode and then "graduates" to the second mode as it becomes successful in the marketplace. Yet, such success is not lasting as there is always another business that will move in and outperform it.

 

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, wisdom and gifts 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.
 

Conscious Structures consists of 7-layers that are represented as 7 concentric circles, one inside the the other, like ripples of waves from a water drop.

 

Starting from the innermost to outermost, these layers are:

 

  1. Inspiration Point/Essence
  2. True Knowledge/Wisdom
  3. Social Identity/Ego
  4. Strategy/Intellect
  5. Engagement/Emotions
  6. Energy/Vitality
  7. Systems/Consistent Habitual Actions

 

When a business's foundation is as deep as the Inspiration Point of its people, it performs at levels unheard of before. When a business's boundaries are defined by the Consistent, Habitual, Aligned Actions of its people - Businss Systems - it can predictably and consistently repeat that high performance over a long period of time.