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Hii article ni maalumu kwa wale wote waliokuwa wana mpinga mkuu Chasha Poultry Farm kuhusu kuwa strategic kwenye biashara.Kuna uzi mmoja wa mjasiriamali wa mkaa watu wengi walionekana kutomuelewa hivyo nawaletea hii article fupi kuhusu kitabu alicho andika mwanzilishi wa Pay pal
The founder of Pay Pal, Tesla Motors and Space X Elon Musk Marshall Goldsmith wrote an excellent book with an excellent title: What Got You Here Wont Get You There.
How true this is. The dynamics that work for a certain stage of your life will not necessarily work for another stage.
Think of life in school and it will help you in your approach. No matter how well you did in school, you did not stay in one class. In fact, before moving from one class to another, you had to pass a test at the end of the year.
Tests come to signify the end of one era and time to move to another. Success in the test is proof that it is time to move on. It is never a sign that you need to stay put in that class.
Whatever success you are experiencing in any area today is a sign that its time to move to greater heights. Think bigger.
In his book, Business @ the Speed of Thought, Bill Gates writes: In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete.
The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will One day somebody will catch us napping. One day, an eager upstart will put Microsoft out of business. I just hope it is 50 years from now, not two or five.
One thing I do regularly is look at my businesses from different eyes.
I look at it from the eye of the customer and ask how I would feel if I were the customer, and what I would expect in order to enhance my experience.
I look at it through the eyes of the competition and ask what I would have done if I were the competitor, to make the business irrelevant today.
I do this exercise with my team and it produces great results. It shows us the loopholes in our system and helps us to respond before the attack comes.
Remember that relevance is not a birth right.
Force of irrelevance
The force of irrelevance is real, always pushing and pressing against us, luring us with the deception of comfort. Those who fall for the bait become the case studies of how not to do things.
The 18th President of the United States of America and Commander of the Union Army during the American civil war, Ulysses Grant, was a military General and a graduate of the West Point military academy.
West Point is a respected military school worldwide. It has produced two presidents, over 70 medals of honour recipients, and numerous famous Generals.
Grant said concerning war: Some of our Generals failed because they worked out everything by rule. They knew what Frederick did at one place and Napoleon at another. They were always thinking about what Napoleon would do I dont underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish observance to rules, they will fail .War is progressive.
It is tempting to look back at precedents to determine actions that will affect the future. Unless we expect the future to be a replica of the past, experience must not be given the centre stage in our decision making. It is easier and it does have its place, but we must never become slaves to it.
Many people draw comfort from the known and steer clear of the unknown. Innovation will never happen in such places.
Innovation happens when ordinary people dare to free themselves from the shackles of past logic. They adventure to a realm of discovery that becomes the logic for the future.
The founder of Pay Pal, Tesla Motors and Space X Elon Musk Marshall Goldsmith wrote an excellent book with an excellent title: What Got You Here Wont Get You There.
How true this is. The dynamics that work for a certain stage of your life will not necessarily work for another stage.
Think of life in school and it will help you in your approach. No matter how well you did in school, you did not stay in one class. In fact, before moving from one class to another, you had to pass a test at the end of the year.
Tests come to signify the end of one era and time to move to another. Success in the test is proof that it is time to move on. It is never a sign that you need to stay put in that class.
Whatever success you are experiencing in any area today is a sign that its time to move to greater heights. Think bigger.
In his book, Business @ the Speed of Thought, Bill Gates writes: In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete.
The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will One day somebody will catch us napping. One day, an eager upstart will put Microsoft out of business. I just hope it is 50 years from now, not two or five.
One thing I do regularly is look at my businesses from different eyes.
I look at it from the eye of the customer and ask how I would feel if I were the customer, and what I would expect in order to enhance my experience.
I look at it through the eyes of the competition and ask what I would have done if I were the competitor, to make the business irrelevant today.
I do this exercise with my team and it produces great results. It shows us the loopholes in our system and helps us to respond before the attack comes.
Remember that relevance is not a birth right.
Force of irrelevance
The force of irrelevance is real, always pushing and pressing against us, luring us with the deception of comfort. Those who fall for the bait become the case studies of how not to do things.
The 18th President of the United States of America and Commander of the Union Army during the American civil war, Ulysses Grant, was a military General and a graduate of the West Point military academy.
West Point is a respected military school worldwide. It has produced two presidents, over 70 medals of honour recipients, and numerous famous Generals.
Grant said concerning war: Some of our Generals failed because they worked out everything by rule. They knew what Frederick did at one place and Napoleon at another. They were always thinking about what Napoleon would do I dont underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish observance to rules, they will fail .War is progressive.
It is tempting to look back at precedents to determine actions that will affect the future. Unless we expect the future to be a replica of the past, experience must not be given the centre stage in our decision making. It is easier and it does have its place, but we must never become slaves to it.
Many people draw comfort from the known and steer clear of the unknown. Innovation will never happen in such places.
Innovation happens when ordinary people dare to free themselves from the shackles of past logic. They adventure to a realm of discovery that becomes the logic for the future.
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