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Faizan
"Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days."
-- Ecclesiastes 11:1
If you feed the future's potential for imagining and creating new harvests with the seeds contained in the fruits of the present, you can create new plenty where there is none today. In each case, you will do better when you abandon the outmoded ways as rapidly as possible in order to have more time and resources for creating and reaping future harvests.
Every business person has seen dwindling results follow from continuing down the same business model paths. At the same time, most have seen well-intended, costly efforts to build a better future business model fail to meet their objectives. You are in trouble if you don't change, and can get into even more trouble when you do change. What's a reasonable person to do in these circumstances?
The solution for new business model building is to pursue directions that offer many potential ways to gain. As a result, your downside risk can be that you simply end up with a less than optimal benefit, but one that leaves you ahead of where you are today. To reduce or eliminate the risk of losing ground requires focusing on new business models that add to your potential influence over business success, add to your skills and knowledge about how to do this, and get more people involved in making your business models successful.
Let's look at this question in terms of the advice that many give that you should teach a person to fish, rather than giving a fish, if you want to help more. But that's not really enough. It's just a way station.
When everyone knows how to fish, the potential supply of wild fish declines for everyone. A lot of time is wasted on unproductive fishing, as well.
Ultimately, fish becomes a dietary plague. Did you know that indentured servants in the United States from Ireland in the 19th century often negotiated for a limit on how many times a week they were served salmon, as one of the few rights they had? Otherwise, some masters would have served the then inexpensive salmon at every meal during the days when salmon ran thick in all of the coastal rivers of the eastern United States.
-- Ecclesiastes 11:1
If you feed the future's potential for imagining and creating new harvests with the seeds contained in the fruits of the present, you can create new plenty where there is none today. In each case, you will do better when you abandon the outmoded ways as rapidly as possible in order to have more time and resources for creating and reaping future harvests.
Every business person has seen dwindling results follow from continuing down the same business model paths. At the same time, most have seen well-intended, costly efforts to build a better future business model fail to meet their objectives. You are in trouble if you don't change, and can get into even more trouble when you do change. What's a reasonable person to do in these circumstances?
The solution for new business model building is to pursue directions that offer many potential ways to gain. As a result, your downside risk can be that you simply end up with a less than optimal benefit, but one that leaves you ahead of where you are today. To reduce or eliminate the risk of losing ground requires focusing on new business models that add to your potential influence over business success, add to your skills and knowledge about how to do this, and get more people involved in making your business models successful.
Let's look at this question in terms of the advice that many give that you should teach a person to fish, rather than giving a fish, if you want to help more. But that's not really enough. It's just a way station.
When everyone knows how to fish, the potential supply of wild fish declines for everyone. A lot of time is wasted on unproductive fishing, as well.
Ultimately, fish becomes a dietary plague. Did you know that indentured servants in the United States from Ireland in the 19th century often negotiated for a limit on how many times a week they were served salmon, as one of the few rights they had? Otherwise, some masters would have served the then inexpensive salmon at every meal during the days when salmon ran thick in all of the coastal rivers of the eastern United States.
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