How will businesses change as a result of the coronavirus?
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What Will Change?
How will our world change due to the coronavirus ⛑ crisis?
My Predictions:
More people will find remote online employment versus employment in a brick and mortar business.
Businesses will also move more to remote workers and reduce their costly footprints.
Homeschooling is going to step up for sure.
If teaching K-12 remotely works, people are going to question the public burden of costly infrastructure–we might see physical campuses simplyngo away.
Grocery and supplies delivery will significantly increase.
People will store more nonperishable food and consumables in their homes.
Expect more home downsizing.
Eating at home and healthier will increase.
The streaming video industry will grow significantly to serve much more people — things like movie theaters will decline.
Trust in government will hit the single digits.
Your thoughts?
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The Importance of Mission Right Now
Your mission statement means everything to your company right now.杖
Is you mission statement just words that make you feel good?
Or are they words that you live by?
Your mission should define you in good times and bad.
Right now, your mission is most important and now is a true test if actually live by it.
My mission it to be an Incubator of Success, coupled with my vision of Leaving nothing but success in my wake.
These words mean even more to me today as I and others around me struggle with this current crisis.
I still look for ways to share content that inspires and teaches — in Hope’s to provide assistance to those in need of success right now.
See, in times like these, especially in business, it can be very easy to focus only on yourself and your business. Not you customers, partners, or employees.
Yes, being a success incubator also means focusing on my own success, but during this crisis it doesn’t mean to only focus on my success.
If you’re struggling in business right now, reach out below. Let’s discuss innovative ways to get through this together.
Share your mission and how important it is right now to you.
Maybe now is the time you really discover your true mission statement?
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Enter the matrix
Do you, or have you operated in a Matix Organization? 🤔🤓
I have seen, recommended, and used the matrix approach in several organizations over the past 30 years.
Most recently, I led a team of process Improvement experts and, although they worked for me, they were matrixed out to support different clients. This gave me the flexibility of economies of scale, but also deeply embedded them with clients (product lines).
I’ve found that a matrix approach is very effective in many but not all situations.
If you’ve been in a matrix organization, can you share your experience?
What were the benefits?
What were the challenges?
Was it a success or failure?
If you’ve never seen a matrix environment before, let me know too. What are your thoughts about one?
How are you organized now?
If you’re a professional in organizational design, what experience have you had creating matrix orgs?
What are your thoughts and cautions on them?
Thanks for your discussion. Very excited to hear from everyone.
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Crosscutter Enterprises
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What’s Important to You?
✔💯 How does your business stack up? Do you agree? 🤔🎯
Are these things below ⬇️ simply table stakes?
What would you add to this list?
What would you say isn’t important?
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Crosscutter Enterprises
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You have no competition!
What if I told you that, “You have no competition?” 🤠🥳🤓
Well, that’s what 3Sixty Integrated CEO, Will Duke, shared to a full house recently at a recent ACG Central Texas luncheon.
I found this an intriguing statement.
Do you feel as if your company has competition? Or not?
If you do, how would you change your paradigm to think otherwise?
What would the business world be like without competition?
What are your thoughts?
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Crosscutter Enterprises
www.crossctr.com
Winner Takes It All!
Does winning matter … sure. I can’t dispute that. But how? 🙉🙈🙊
‼ This update is going to piss a few people off that I know. 🤬 Oh well…
People, who don’t want you to win, care how you did it.
People, who want you to win, don’t care how you did it.
Those, who don’t want you to win, see how you’re winning, how you’re getting away with it, and also how you’re being recognized for it.
So, they start doing it as well.
Case in point: “Amazon Best Seller” 🔖
This garbage started before 2010. Forever, I thought it meant that your book simply out sold every other book in its category and was number one on Amazon … for a day or so.
That category could be very obscure. But, it doesn’t have to be. Because, I learned the many ways authors were convincing a lot of people to buy their book (often a $0.99 ebook) in one day — they game the system.
I have been told many times, by both authors and friends, I should do it too.
Recently I learned that some authors are calling #2 on Amazon a Best Seller … as is #14. Basically, if someone says it’s a Best Seller, then it is. Mainly, because there is no way to disprove it.
This is what people consider “Winning.”
Not me…
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It’s time to smile
What’s in a smile? 🙁❓🙂
I never smiled!
In 1988, I entered the Air Force and spent the first 10 years of my 21 as a cop. 👮♂️
For about five years, I was unapproachable. There I would be, at an event, crossed arms, dark eyebrows, and a “Don’t you dare talk to me,” look on my face. I never smiled.
In fact, I had taken the Myers-Briggs Type Assessment several times and always came out as a strong Introvert.
I noticed that no one ever talked to me, but could see others that were always approached by others — the life of the party, so to speak.
I made a bold move…I started to smile.
The effect was almost immediate. Not only was I approachable, but now I test as a strong Extrovert.
Do you smile? Are you approachable? Try it…
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Forbes Expert Panel — Diversity
Seven Ways Leaders Can Encourage Diversity In The Workplace
❓ How is Diversity best defined?
❓ What are the benefits?
For a business to be able to have a diverse workplace, companies must address these questions and more.
I’m proud to be featured again on Forbes through the Forbes Coaches Council! Twice in one week — I must be doing something right?!?
I provided the sixth method: Be Constant And Consistent With Education!
Diversity—and inclusion, because you can have a diverse work center and not include everyone—starts with solid, constant and consistent education. This is not one training class and an annual refresher online. This is purposeful diversity and inclusion leadership growth—it should start before the individual becomes a leader and they should grow and build over time. – John Knotts, Crosscutter Enterprises
Share Your Toxic Examples
We’ve been discussing toxic leadership and cultures this week. The military is not immune to this environment — in fact, it can be the worst.
During one of my assignments in the Air Force, I worked as a flight sergeant with a hand-picked unit. There was one senior NCO and one officer that oversaw the unit — we were lean and mean.
The officer was absent, simply put. He was more focused on school and getting ahead, so he was never seen — never interacted with the unit personnel.
Thus, the SNCO, ran everything. Everyone called him The Dragon. This guy invented “toxic.” His goal was to break down each NCO in the unit to the point where they would in turn break down everyone that worked for them.
He ran everything like a cult. He referred to people as “in his camp” or “not.” He would hold “camp” meetings at a bar off base (so he could get drunk and not busted) and he would give his sermons over whiskey and beer chasers.
The stories I could tell about The Dragon. See, in the military, you can’t quit your job to get away from a toxic culture. You just have to endure.
This needs to be solved … this toxicity needs to be eradicated from business and out life!
What toxic examples do you have?