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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