Posts Tagged ‘recession’

A Corporate Cause Is Its Solution

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

The best way to stop a child from crying is to distract them, occupying their mind with new stimuli. The best way to get attention is to do something outlandishly unexpected. The quickest path to wealth is to have an ingenious idea that becomes virally popular. When the U.S. joined in World War II, the entire country came together in support of winning the war. Time and again, the solution to major issues, or a seemingly insurmountable problem has been a novel concept (new idea), or a Cause greater than the sum of its parts, or ideally both. I’m sure you can think of many more examples, even stronger than these. The point is that we see only as we focus, but that focal power can be enough to change the world, given a Cause plus new ideas.

By the same token, focus can be blinding, paralyzing, or even disastrous. Consider the metaphor of the child learning to ride a bicycle. Suddenly the child has a front tire caught in a rut or trough and begins to fall. The temptation is to focus in the direction of the fall, which causes a crash instead of focusing the other direction (a new stimulus/idea), bringing the bike upright and back into balance. Once again, we see only as we focus.

In the world of modern business, a company must be flexible and open minded in its operational philosophy and overall approach, lest that business subsist or fail entirely. This flexibility means more than simply adapting to changing economic factors; it means a willingness to reexamine any or all business practices, from sales and marketing to all aspects of operations; it means listening and hearing as well as measuring and planning. Some enemies of flexibility are closed minds, a focus on the bottom line only, managerial incompetence, and selective blindness.

A healthy corporation that is indeed flexible and open to change must achieve balance, boundaries, exactness, perhaps genius-level ideas, and above all a genuine Cause, all of which bring about new focus, and a focal power that creates a winning combination for the company, as well as its adopted Cause.

When I was a child, I loved to watch a professional plate spinner entertaining a crowd. The plate spinner would balance multiple plates, each at the end of a stick, and keep adding more sticks with spinning plates, keeping them all balanced. The balance between gravity and centrifugal force would eventually win over the plate spinner and finally plates would begin to fall. I always mused that the plate spinner was a good metaphor for life; we rush around trying to keep all of our “plates” spinning (balanced), but it tends to become too much too fast, and we must reduce our spinning plates.

According to a current definition in Wikipedia, “balance” in the metaphysical or conceptual sense is defined as follows:
“balance is used to mean a point between two (or more) opposite forces that is desirable over purely one state or the other…” Sounds reasonable.

But as the plate spinner metaphor illustrates, balance is not achieved without boundaries. We achieve balance in all aspects of our lives by selecting exact limitations. Boundaries come from exactness, from limiting scope through a highly selective process. Another useful metaphor is the gymnast on the balance beam: without exactness of movement through limitation of scope, she forfeits balance and falls. Her highly selective process of developing balance is called practice.

Now I want to relate boundaries, exactness, and balance to an overused – in fact obsolete – concept called “networking” and “networks”.

Networks and networking – at their core – are designed to compound or multiply effectiveness or results through the power of multiple people and the resources of those in the network. The terms networking and networks are obsolete not only because they have become buzzwords, stretched and pulled into whatever shape is desired, but also because networks and networking typically means few limitations, the more the merrier, a shotgun effect. Most often the results of any given network are a function or reflection of the sheer numbers involved in that network. In this model there are intrinsic side effects, including chaos, lack of focus, lack of defined structure, lack of unity, and so many more negatives.

To achieve the highest levels of effectiveness and the strongest results, a network must have clearly defined boundaries and balance…it must be exact! In an Exact Network, each member is selected or recruited based upon their particular expertise, talent, and necessary contribution. In an Exact Network, the members are defined according to the essential and critical function that each serves within the network. One “macro” example of an Exact Network is government, although over time it has become a bureaucracy as opposed to a highly effective Exact Network. A better example is the hand picked executive team of a well-respected corporation, all focused on a coalition of goals and results. But even this is often times missing crucial elements in planning, execution, and vehicle for achievement.

The best imaginable results and desired return means Uber success, or the best possible success that can be imagined, nothing could be better. Therefore, an Exact Network that is focused on a coalition (unified and defined) of goals and results, is the best way to achieve “Uber Success”, provided they have an effective vehicle to reach their destination.

We create the opportunity for pure GENIUS, when we Generate Exact Networks to Institute Uber Success. Further, if such an Exact Network is provided with a clearly defined and entirely structured vehicle for attaining the goals of the Exact Network, the guaranteed result is uber success. I suggest that this vehicle is “Neologic Omnipotent Workshops” (NOW); a succession of goal-oriented, structured, pre-defined “workshops” wherein the most current ideas (Neologic), and all imaginable variables (Omnipotent) are entertained within pre-defined, structured workshops.

Focus, focal power, balance, boundaries, genius ideas / events, and a great Cause will grant a corporation uber success, and empower a Cause to create the miracle of change.

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Another World War Looms

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

TheDudeBrands family of websites are devoted to integrity, our planet, and successful life. The largest enemy of integrity, our world, and success – in fact life itself – is war.

I am afraid. I am troubled that war is not only likely, but imminent, unless the power structures around the planet (and the little people) use the current financial crisis as a wake-up call. Pressures tend to lead to conflict, to warfare, to resolution, and finally to renewed stability. Those at the helm around the world know this recipe, and therefore we the people must realize this formula as well. For we the people have the ultimate responsibility – through a coalition of conscience – to keep the ‘powers that be’ accountable and away from inciting war.

Financial tensions affect relationships on the micro level and on the macro level. Just as a family will be shaken by an interruption of income or financial crisis, our “national family” is traumatized by economic instability. The parents in the challenged family must discover a solution, lest they fall victim to ruin. The leaders of nations must ascertain financial answers, lest the world fall victim to devastation.

Financial power mongers more than any other factor have placed men (primarily) in their political offices. These politicians are hesitant to turn against the powerful interests that made their career success possible. In fact, very seldom are these “insider” relationships ever exposed for what they really are; special alliances, preferential treatment, huge contracts, covert funds, and so much more…are certainly all involved in these “clandestine” dealings. Absolute power corrupts, as we all know. It seems that the citizens of the United States did not heed the precise warnings asserted by President Eisenhower in his farewell address to the nation.

So as tensions heat up, those at the center seek to shift the spotlight away from acceptance and accountability. What typically follows is war. Then too, there must always be a patsy, a victim. Most often this scapegoat – when exploited – serves the interests of the ruling class. Who and what will this be next time?

Historically, war is the financial and social solution to hardship and intense tensions. And, invariably there are incredible casualties and collateral damages. In this age of nuclear weapons it is war that is the clear enemy. We must end the proven cycle of history.

I am afraid and yet hopeful. I pray that the integrity of the collective conscience will wake up and find peaceful solutions to the tensions of our times and succeed in making lasting and abundant peace and prosperity.



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