One single day of meditation in any deep jungle teaches us two things; firstly, how everything is so interdependent and secondly, survival of the fittest so meticulously measured by designated performance. There, everything streamlined like a symphony in action, because butterflies are not chasing hawks or rabbits attacking tigers. Jungles have balance, saving energy, resources and constant recycling for sustainability. Over there, every creature is a unique specimen with a designated superior performance, delivered in grace and absolute consistency. On the other hand, over here, humankind performance ended up with far more complicated expectancies. Today, measured in economic terms our performances have landed us in a jungle of our own reckoning. Here, our imbalanced survival of the fittest now demonstrated, as if, anacondas trying to swallow elephants or skunks pretending to be peacocks.
Future of pandemic recovery depends on finding our measurable performances at each step of the way, every layer and at every hierarchy of the organization; nation-by-nation, from headquarters of national leaderships, all the way down at every large and small economic development activity and even at heart of every single public and private sector enterprise. Why not, when technologies allow such measurement and pandemic times demand such excellence. During recent decades, humankind chase went disharmonious, productivity, performance and profitability overshadowed by illusions. Natural instinct went astray. Jungle economics sprawled. Resets, realignments and re-thinking are the limited mandatory options.
Why are the old business models crumbling?
Absence of Organizational Hierarchies; the organizational structures designed to tame Mammoth Corporation as a living organism. This invisible hierarchy of control and command existed as an extremely powerful and institutionalized body but now chipping away, often the soul of the corporation missing, power and control now distributed via technology to granular levels, where intermingled cross-messaging with odd meanings destroys communication. Single command when down streamed arrives as shattered mix-media babble adding only confusion. When command and control are broken, socio-political interference constantly shifts goals and targets, management shifts to schemes. Majority of the workforce of major corporations in almost any country cannot define their own corporate objectives, purpose and goals. This has now affected the soul of the enterprise; every enterprise must declare grassroots prosperity and sustainability as its prime mission over just money making schemes or primarily serving shareholders equities at any cost to the common goods.
Absence of Image Hierarchies; the sophisticated image positioning for the mind of global populace, the name identity in addition to logo branding creating layers of direct and indirect visible and invisible messaging to form a impenetrate able pyramid of image power, now mostly fragmented and lost in social media. Large and super-large corporate agendas are lost is disconnect corporate communications and crushed in rapid fire across shifting sands and lack of image hierarchy strips advancements. This has now affected balance sheets as brand value of the enterprises dropped and customer acquisition costs skyrocketed.
Absence of Concrete Hierarchies: like highly expensive real estate towering structure and fancy institutionalized decorum to create image supremacy as impressive fortresses to demonstrate power and glory of the mother ship enterprise. The entire layouts synchronized and branded across nations or the world to present a unified message, lost in remote-working culture and during pandemic recovery now lessons on the new force of ultimate transition. Pandemic has now forced cemented structures competing with cyber-presence at much faster speed, creating fluidity of operations to control the dual models. This has now affected the business workings and forced enterprises to rethink the entire model to survive.
Key Adjustments: ‘Remote working culture’ will eliminate the centrality of office towers and downtown status. Decentralization and ‘remote management’ will survive with only very ‘different’ skills, dramatically different from “dress-up for decorum”, “demonstrate power and glory with mounted frames” all transformed to supreme execution and mental capacity to demonstrate entrepreneurialism, with tolerance, diversity and global-age thinking. More than 50% of the work force may never return to work and remain remote, creating downtown bust and crashing down super expensive high office towers to almost cheap or free spaces.
Key Solutions: Asia alone is adding some 500 million new entrepreneurs. What does this mean? No other experiment of human endeavor was as successful as America, where some 100,000 entrepreneurs carved out the entrepreneurial supremacy of the United States spanning over a century. What new option does this bring to the USA? Today, expertise on national mobilization of entrepreneurialism teaches new thinking of setting up “micro-manufacturing” for “micro-exports” as an economic revolution of its own kind. Despite some 500 million SME in the world, a billion new big and small, young and old entrepreneurs on the march, economic leaderships are missing some great opportunities to table tactical combative blueprints to advance the challenges of local grassroots prosperity. Big business in any nation is big, but small business in any nation is many times bigger. If leaderships of the already mandated agencies, like the associations, chambers and export-promotion agencies of the country are in some harmony to face the truth and deal with the realities of tomorrow, major shifts on the horizon.
New laws of the Jungle;
Allow SME the first $5-10 million revenue in exports, tax-free to create jobs and bring foreign exchange. Allow SME free access to all dormant Intellectual Property, Patents, and Academic Experts on voucher programs. Allow SME free full time MBA as 6-12 months interns so MBA graduates can acquire some entrepreneurialism. Allow Million qualified entrepreneurs to park within a nation for 5-10 years under a special tax-free visa. Allow national mobilization of entrepreneurialism protocols mandated to engage trade and exports bodies. Allow national scoring of entrepreneurialism to measure, differentiate talents, and separate pretenders. (Expothon is tabling bold agenda on such topics and starting high level series of global virtual events starting in early 2021)
Why is leadership so fearful of bold open debates? There is a visible lack of special entrepreneurial mobilizations and execution skills, over dependence on bureaucratic lip-singing mantras blaming others only adding confusion. There is critical lack of content and advanced level expertise on high-class global virtual events and the right message to bring all parties on the same page. There is a serious lack of realization that such drastic thinking and deployments are often not new funding dependent rather execution hungry and mobilization starved.
Although this is not an easy task; smart nations are awakening to such bold notions and entrepreneurial driven agencies mandated to foster local economies are using virtual events to rise up with global rhythm and rich contents. For fears of avoiding dramatic changes, bureaucracies of most nations will try to bandage the old broken systems.
Bold and fearless leadership will embrace the new thinking and prove survival of the fittest. The rest is easy.
