{"id":13882,"date":"2018-09-07T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=13882"},"modified":"2018-09-07T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:57:27","slug":"creating-an-unfair-advantage-part-2-become-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=13882","title":{"rendered":"Creating an unfair advantage: Part 2: become productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Creating an unfair advantage: Part 2: become productive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week a LBO investor said one of his investments was up for sale yet the CEO was pushing the unprofitable international business rather than the profitable core business. How could that be and what is the solution?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is winningthinking.uk\u00a0so successful?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It might surprise you to know that it\u2019s not by prescribing what you\u00a0should eat!<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do we use winningthinking.uk to become productive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whats the issue to resolve?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is the productivity gap down to the slow adoption of technology?\u00a0<strong>No.<\/strong>\u00a0Let me explain using these 3 recent war stories:<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is reality and its common:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Automotive manufacturer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cwe have been through worse before&#8221; (Chairman)\u00a0Their 3 main projects lost \u00a32m wasted 18 months, the MD and chairman were tied up firefighting, had no\u00a0business process and made no progress on resolving the underlying issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tech Business<\/strong>\u00a0had spent \u00a310.5m over 11 years developing a product that should have cost \u00a31m and taken 12 months. Yet\u00a0the founder\u00a0maintained they &#8220;we cannot\u00a0not create a plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artificial intelligence<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>tech leader\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cpeople are machines (Founder)\u201d the perfect justification for an AI centrist strategy, what is strategic impact if people are NOT machines?<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a common theme:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When faced with a challenge these statements justify the status quo, so\u00a0completely misdirect\u00a0activity from what matters. Its common because we just don&#8217;t see this &#8211;\u00a0<strong>its in the executives\u00a0blind spots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is technology the answer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, the focus on artificial intelligence \/ digital as the means to improve productivity in these organisations is just nuts: but like any other flawed mantra when faced with a challenge this can\u00a0<em>become\u00a0the perfect mantra distraction from addressing what really matters?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Have you noticed how hard it is to challenge the AI mantra?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Its nuts because if the thinking and assumptions are not straightened this tech will just accelerate the wasted activities linked to these flawed strategies above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whats the alternative?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have just run another winningthinking session with a portfolio VC:\u00a0<strong>Automotive manufacturer\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe can\u2019t reduce overheads, we are already lean\u201d (CEO) This roadblock unnecessarily forced the VC to replace the MD. \u201cwinningthinking was enlightening we don\u2019t want to run their businesses, they know better.&#8221; &#8220;the winningthinking toolkit is a effective\u00a0alternative to just replacing management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much time to these distractions cost?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our analysis<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>show that even in successful businesses\u00a070% of activity is wasted, so it\u2019s no wonder you are busy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you value being Busy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If 70% of your activity could be wasted &#8211; Do you still value being busy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whats the answer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you blind to this:\u00a0if you were aware that they were wasting 70% of your time you would do something about it?<\/p>\n<p>A winningthinking strategy session\u00a0highlights the opportunity\u00a0that is a euphoric breakthroughs.\u00a0Have you ever experienced mass euphoria at work \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>The result?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This process has been proven using the winningthinking approach to liberate organisational speed of execution and create a double digit profit improvement.\u00a0You cant achieve these results without the winningthinking.uk process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Too busy to Lose Wait?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to join us on this exciting journey just call.<\/p>\n<p>Some businesses may need to lose weight, but\u00a0<strong>every business\u00a0needs to lose \u2018WAIT\u2019.<\/strong>\u00a0Procrastination is a commercial disease that\u00a0is threatening the health of our economy.\u00a0With the speed at which\u00a0the world is now changing, we all need to open our eyes to the bad\u00a0habits we\u2019ve fallen into and any bad decisions we\u2019ve been making &#8211;\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>we need to do it today<\/strong>, before it\u2019s too late!<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<p>tom@winningthinking.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating an unfair advantage: Part 2: become productive Last week  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-turnaround","category-winningthinking-though-leadership","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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