All the questions about business best practices, new approaches, different techniques, how to lead, how not to lead, ladder up to the same question:
What is the right Operating Model for your business?
But what if the Operating Model that a vast majority of businesses are using is wrong? What if it was no longer suited to today’s society? What if that same Operating Model was a cage that locked you into old ways that don’t work?
That would mean that all the effort you’re putting into running your business effectively was for nought. And if not for nought, then only marginally helpful now and, in a few years, not helpful at all.
What a crying shame, given all the energy that you are expending.
This is no small thing. If you are casually scrolling over these words, this is a moment to take heed of. Many, many times these moments come to my clients and they miss them. Simply because they don’t take the time to double-click on this message.
’Operating Model’ covers everything. It’s an all-encompassing arrangement of corporate activities:
- How you see your business
- How you understand your business
- How you lead your business
- How you arrange your business
- How you get your business to perform
- How you treat people
- How you remunerate your business
- How you talk to your business
- How you generate profi
There’s more, but the list would be too long.
If I had one wish for my clients – and all the other CEOs and business leaders of the world – it would be that they paid closer attention to this moment and REALLY thought about whether their businesses’ Operating Model was:
- The best that’s available
- Makes best use of the profound changes that ‘work’ is undergoing
- Takes advantage of the innovations that are happening at the outer edge of business
Do yourself a favour and read ‘Brave New Work’ by Aaron Dignan. It’s all you have to do to get you on a path to a better, relevant Operating Model. It’s an easy read, and it’s packed with all the learnings that you need right now.
Read it and then be brave and make the change.
Just do this and you’ll have made the turn toward a new and better future.
Don’t let this moment pass.
A lot rides on it.