As businesses become more complex in their value propositions to customers, its systems get hit by entropy. Chaos becomes common and disorder is the default. Ultimately, this will lead to a collapse, but is it possible to delay the inevitable? What can an organisation do?
My models of interaction with the world at large has helped me convert many uncertainties into risks. But they are far from robust. I realise that I cannot completely control what is thrown at me, I have to build better framing for how to react to it. Maybe that’s the way to make the uncertain, simple.
Are we really objective when evaluating our own happiness? Maybe if one were really responding to a need, and not a want (driven by social validation or self image), one would be in the moment, and experience joy.
My take on the importance of a world view in brand building. With the ever-reducing shelf lives of brand and marketing play books, a “skin in the game” approach is a strategic imperative. What is that, how does one arrive at it – my perspectives using Nike as an example.
Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina with “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” A.J. Finn’s character in The Woman in the Window says that “No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other.” Who is right?