Strategic Discipline Blog

We just finished examining Robert Steven Kaplan’s What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential

In keeping with his premise, I’m going to ask a question.

Which do you feel will have a greater impact on your business future, Artificial Intelligence or getting your people to change?

If you answer Artificial Intelligence, is this prejudiced by your frustration to get your people to change?

If I could promise you a resource that effectively gets your people to change, which would impact your business more: Artificial Intelligence or the ability to get your people to change?

People Change - Your Greatest Business Challenge

Artificial Intelligence is transforming business. The jury is still out on whether it will create more jobs, require a shift to a more specialized workforce, or eliminate jobs. There’s no question it’s the future.

That change is here and unfolding now.

Are your people qualified and prepared to handle this change?

Businesspeople need to prepare and train a workforce that knows how to change, adapt, and develop. Future Shock author, Alvin Toffler warned in 1970, “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

The businesses that succeed in this century will be those that can coach, teach, train, and develop their people to learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Why is Change so Hard?

Change MEANS to make choices today, different from what YOU did yesterday.

That’s the hardest thing!

Why?

You have upwards of 60,000 thoughts a day! 90% are repetitive! Meaning… we think the same thoughts day after day after day. 75% of your thoughts are negative!

If you’re over 35, 95% of the 60 to 70,000 thoughts you have each day are the same!!

We need to be aware of what our subconscious thoughts are to change them!

The only place change can start is in the present moment. Awareness is the first step to change!

Leaders who become aware, choosing to consciously uncover the behavior, attitudes, and actions that betray this desire to improve, can strengthen their organization, grow themselves, and achieve dramatic results.

Yes, Artificial Intelligence is changing the landscape of business!

The businesses that can adapt to AI, but more importantly have people who can adapt, be agile, flexible, and creatively change are destined to succeed in these challenging and dynamic times.

“We can change in times of pain and suffering – or in times of joy and inspiration. Which would you choose?”

Change is constant. We already know Artificial Intelligence is changing the landscape of the economy. The leaders who navigate this change will be most prepared and able to take advantage of it. The leaders who create an environment where change is a core value of their people stand to earn future rewards.

In coming blogs, we’ll discuss the science of change, and how to build an organization to embrace it.

To create an environment where everyone is inspired to give their best, contact Positioning Systems to schedule a free exploratory meeting.

Let’s help you to turn your business into a growth organization!  

Growth demands Strategic Discipline.

Next blog we learn how to change starts with new thoughts. We’ll discover how your personal reality is made up of your personality (how you think, act, and feel) and why energy is vital to changing your personal reality to achieve change.

Building an enduring great organization requires disciplined people, disciplined thought, disciplined action, superior results, producing a distinctive impact on the world.

Discipline sustains momentum, over a long period of time, laying the foundations for lasting endurance.

A winning habit starts with 3 Strategic Disciplines: Priority, Metrics, and Meeting Rhythms.   Forecasting, accountability, individual, and team performance improve dramatically.

Meeting Rhythms achieve a disciplined focus on performance metrics to drive growth.

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NEXT BLOG – CHANGE – Begins with New Thoughts