When The Same Old Tricks Don’t Work

Here’s what it looks like when the same old tricks no longer carry the day.

Efficiency of effort

  • For the same energy, you get more in return.
  • For the same energy, you get the same in return.
  • For more energy, you get the same in return.
  • For more energy, you get less in return.
  • Out of energy.

 

Efficiency of profit

  • Increased profit and increased sales.
  • Lesser increased profit and unchanged sales.
  • Unchanged profit and unchanged sales.
  • Decreased profit and unchanged sales.
  • Decreased profit and decreased sales.
  • No profit and no sales.

 

Vibrancy

  • High-energy citizens with a strong customer focus.
  • Medium energy team members with some customer focus.
  • Medium-energy people with little customer focus.
  • Lethargic nameless humans with no customer focus.
  • Nobody home.

 

Time Horizon

  • Long-term purpose, medium-term execution, short-term adaptation.
  • Medium-term execution, short-term adaptation.
  • Short-term execution, shorter-term bickering.
  • Shortest-term floundering.
  • Out of time.

 

Truthfulness

  • Truthful communication is delivered clearly and skillfully.
  • Truthful communication is delivered less skillfully.
  • Partial truths delivered.
  • Partial truths delivered unskillfully.
  • No truths.

 

Trust

  • Many tight groups of informal networks share information naturally and effectively.
  • Informal networks share information naturally.
  • Informal networks share information.
  • Informal networks go underground to share information.
  • Informal networks go underground and band together to protect each other.
  • Informal networks give up.

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