A formula for the future and a new way of innovating everything…
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Throw Away Your Mission Statement and get yourself a good COP; How you can create a more action-oriented company
A mission statement is about what you want your company to be, while a COP explains how your company will become what you want it to be. It serves as the day-to-day guide to your and your employees’ activities. The COP works by helping you and your employees visualize future success. If employees are consciously working day-by-day toward a central goal, then ultimately, the goal becomes engrained into their mentality. Read rest of article
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Speeches, Workshops, Seminars, Consulting – to help you design, create, and actualize the future you deserve.
When I work with clients who want to create a better future for their businesses, my first question is, “what do you think the future is?” The answers I get are generally in the vein of, “the future is what happens next.” Deciding that the future simply becomes the future on its own provides all manner of excuses for believing that we have no control over our futures. It’s the perfect excuse for taking neither responsibility nor action, and this point of view is completely inconsistent with the America Code. Whether we realize it or not, we did not get here by abdicating control of our fates but by first visioning and then realizing them.
In making choices towards the future, we can take one of two paths. We can choose the great highway of pessimism, which assumes that things will only get worse. Or, we can choose road of optimism, which assumes that things have at least a chance of getting better. Optimism is the only route to a positive future for America and Americans because it embraces the possibility for improving every situation if we will only decide to try. By continually reminding ourselves that the future is the product of our decisions, we take more responsibility for making those decisions and leverage more control over the future.
I believe that things are easier to manage if we understand how the pieces fit together, I have come up with a formula for the future that works for individuals as much as it does for the country. In working with you, I will share that formula and show you how to use it to shape the future you deserve for yourself and for your company.
I will also share some prognostications about where I believe America is headed that I hope will provide some new perspectives on your part in designing and building our collective national future while profiting from such insights.
Based on thousands of interviews and conversations in which I got to ask the question: “What is the future?” I have come to understand that for most Americans, the future is one of three things:
- It is something we can’t know.
- It is what happens next.
- It is what we make of it (the least common response).
The first two answers disturb me because they imply that we have no control over the future and are consigned to experience it without exerting any influence over it. The third is encouraging, but only if it comes with an action plan to make it so.
In the course of my work, I have come to understand that defining and getting to the future you deserve is a two-step process. The first step involves a full and honest appraisal of where you are today. The second step is visioning your desired destination in time.
The key to making that future happen is to understand how the future gets to be the future for you as a person, for your company, and for the country as a whole. Finally, you need a mechanism, a process, a formula that starts the journey, keeps you on track, and ultimately delivers your desired future.