January 31st, 2011
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Jet fighter pilots implicitly understand the real time anatomy of a journey, as they are trained in something called the OODA Loop - The Fighter-Pilot’s OODA Loop: Observe; Orient; Decde; Act. and read more at Wikipedia: OODA Loop.
See video playlist at the In the Driving Seat channel on YouTube, including video of a Police Driving Shool (London Metropolitan Police, UK), including footage of trainees giving a running commentary verbalizing their OODA Loop while in emergency response driving situations.
January 30th, 2011
Journey-ionics is a conceptual model helping us understand journeys at a microscopic level and how we link and accumulate the "ions" of a journey as individual thoughts, questions, decisions and actions.
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January 29th, 2011
In his 2007 book, "The Future of Management", Gary Hamel relates pre-adaptation to business and our organizational agility challenge, putting it this way:
"Evolution occasionally equips organisms with apparently superfluous, reproductively neutral features that turn out, quite by accident, to be highly useful when conditions change. This is known as pre-adaptation. To be resilient, a company needs a lot of lightly scripted pre-adaptation—policies that give associates the chance to pre-adapt rather than react. Too much of what gets done in most companies is in response to some already pressing issue; there’s no slack, no space for improvisation, and no way to defend projects that aren’t immediately useful. That’s why so many companies end up on the wrong side of the change curve. Your job as a management innovator is to make sure that the management systems in your company encourage strategic pre-adaptation.”
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January 28th, 2011
A great analogy for organizational agility comes from the field of software development and the emergence of the new paradigm of “Agile Software Development.” Read more at Think “Agile Software Development” for the “Soft-ware” of Organizational Agility.
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January 27th, 2011
We are progressively exploring the three dimensions of the void we need to fill, to be fully filling our role In the Driving Seat of our business and the agility we need as an organization. How we see is how we think is how we act. We are helping you see the three dimensions of the challenge as clearly as you need to.
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January 26th, 2011
In his book, "The Fifth Discipline", Peter Senge outlines the five disciplines of learning organizations, saying, “Today, I believe, five new ‘component technologies’ are gradually converging to innovate learning organizations. Systems thinking, mental models, personal mastery, shared vision, and team learning & dialogue are inescapable elements of building learning organizations.” We can map these five components into the Execution Excellence 2.0 model.
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January 25th, 2011
The Journey-Judgment Opportunity Assessment translates the 13 moving parts of the Journey-judgment model of Execution Excellence into 13 driving disciplines for reducing wheelspin, increasing traction, and brewing up a BREAKTHROUGH! with your organizational agility. It provides a template with which to judge where you are in your journey, evolving from a 1.0 postadaptive mode through 2.0 to a 3.0, preadaptive mode, for each of the 13 driving disciplines and associated component parts of Journey-judgment model of Execution Excellence. It helps you assess your opportunities for improvement and architecting a BREAKTHROUGH!
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January 24th, 2011
Bringing Journey Orientation into focus.
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January 23rd, 2011
Reinforcing a Mindset of Operations Management.
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January 21st, 2011
Enhancing Strategic Productivity.
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January 20th, 2011
Accentuating Short-Range Culture.
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January 19th, 2011
Keeping our Flight Planning envelope expanded to our full Execution Excellence agenda.
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January 19th, 2011
New version of Vistage Resource Speaker presentation including links to videos. Click here to download the presentation.
January 18th, 2011
Tackling Operational Productivity.
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January 17th, 2011
Holding a Recurring, Rigorous & Rallying Strategy Process.
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January 16th, 2011
Re-engineering Structures, Processes & Systems.
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January 15th, 2011
Orchestrating a Goal-Setting Cascade & Review Process.
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January 13th, 2011
Unlocking & Challenging Mental Models.
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January 11th, 2011
Guiding Leadership/Communication Skills & Style.
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January 10th, 2011
Handling Accountability for Long-Range Culture.
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January 9th, 2011
!ntegrating our Enterprise Execution Capability & Capacity.
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Execution Excellence: Missing-in-Action
Mike's Own Journey
See Mike giving one of his keynote speeches,