Mike Barnato

#ThriveNotDive – using Management & Marketing, Martial Arts Principles & Mindset & Behaviour

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Is your organisation #Fit4Purpose? Watch out for SSSHARKKSS.

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Is your organisation fit for purpose?

Or are you #SurvivingNotThriving or perhaps Diving?

Think about these nine elements of being fit for purpose.

Are you on top of them? Think SSSHARKSS.

Strategy. The #MartialArtsPrinciple is #Simplify

Why do you exist?

What’s the endgame?

What are the priorities?

Strengths. The MartialArtsPrinciple is, #Look4Leverage

Are you #PlayingToYourStrengths?

And maintaining our future edge?

Structure.

Is it fit for purpose?

Do we have the right skills and roles?

Happen. The #MartialArtsPrinciple is, Do you #KnowTheScore?

What’s your performance like?

Are your measures meaningful?

Actions. The #MartialArtsPrinciple is, Are you #PractisingProperly?

Do we combine engagement and discipline?

Resilience. The #MartialArtsPrinciple is, Are you managing by

#PulsebeatsNotPostmortems?

Are your risks understood and actively managed?

Ki. #MindsetAndBehaviour

Do we comply with spirit and letter of good practice and integrity?

Sustainability.

Are you replacing your capital, be it human, intellectual or other?

Stakeholders.

Are you balancing the interests of our wider stakeholders?

 

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Acknowledgements: The last two questions suggested by Calum Byers in a comment on the earlier version of this post. The second question by John A Gelmini in a comment.

Shark image by TheHikingArtist.