Old management style sucks. Thats right, the hierarchical structure that exists that brings petty games, alliances and soul selling does not work anymore. There is a new style of management that is not fueled by ego or career status or getting ahead of your work colleague. In old management you are rewarded by time in the job over actual ability. This will change.

The new management style calls for a flat organization with open channels of communication. An organization where your point of view really does matter, where you are given credit for the work that you do. You are rewarded by ability, not by how long you have been in the same position. Too idealistic?

The new management is open, transparent and flexible. The structure of an organization is flat. There are no games, only the pursuit of a common goal of progress. In the new organization you can talk to anyone (even the CEO!), you can express an idea and people will listen. It is the greater good that is in mind, not simply personal agendas.

The new organization does not suffer from bloat, bureaucracy or mediocrity. At its core is creativity, openness and collaboration.

It comes down to this:

Do you want to keep to the old working style and work 5 days to get 2 days off? (5=2)

or

Do you want to make a difference?

Many are making a difference already

Posted in Businesses, The Future at May 26th, 2008. No Comments.

Entrepreneurship is not a zero sum game.  A zero sum game is like poker where at the end of the hand you have one winner and everyone else loses.  Markets do not work like that.  A popular misconception is that if someone else has already thought about an idea, patented it, or incorporated a company around that idea then you are too late! The market has been taken!

This is false.

There are always more customers, parts of the market your competitors cannot touch.  No product is identical.  If IT IS a zero sum game then explain to me the 150 different types of salad dressings I can buy at the local supermarket?

That should prompt some thinking. 

Posted in Marketing, The Future at May 14th, 2008. No Comments.