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None of us can predict with certainty the twists and turns our lives will take. Life is uncertain, the future unknown.
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what distinguishes those who perform exceptionally well from those who underperform or worse?
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This study grabbed us because of our own persistent angst and gnawing sense of vulnerability in a world that feels increasingly disordered.
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Yet some companies and leaders navigate this type of world exceptionally well. They don’t merely react; they create. They don’t merely survive; they prevail. They don’t merely succeed; they thrive. They build great enterprises that can endure. We do not believe that chaos, uncertainty, and instability are good; companies, leaders, organizations, and societies do not thrive on chaos. But they can thrive in chaos.
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Why did the 10X companies achieve such spectacular results, especially when direct comparisons — companies operating in the same fast-moving, unpredictable, and tumultuous environments — did not? Part of the answer lies in the distinctive behaviors of their leaders.
Why did the 10X companies achieve such spectacular results, especially when direct comparisons — companies operating in the same fast-moving, unpredictable, and tumultuous environments — did not? Part of the answer lies in the distinctive behaviors of their leaders.
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Amundsen and Scott achieved dramatically different outcomes not because they faced dramatically different circumstances. ... If they faced the same environment in the same year with the same goal, the causes of their respective success and failure simply cannot be the environment. They had divergent outcomes principally because they displayed very different behaviors. (Moi ici: Por maior que passa desconhecido aos macroeconomistas. Por isso, são incapazes de conceber, ou mesmo perceber, a distribuição de produtividades intra-sectorial)
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Let’s first look at what we did not find about 10Xers relative to their less successful comparisons: They’re not more creative. They’re not more visionary. They’re not more charismatic. They’re not more ambitious. They’re not more blessed by luck. They’re not more risk-seeking. They’re not more heroic. And they’re not more prone to making big, bold moves. To be clear, we’re not saying that 10Xers lacked creative intensity, ferocious ambition, or the courage to bet big. They displayed all these traits, but so did their less successful comparisons. (Moi ici: O que aí vem é um tema recorrente neste blogue!!! Preparem-se)
.So then, how did the 10Xers distinguish themselves? First, they embrace a paradox of control and noncontrol. On the one hand, 10Xers understand that they face continuous uncertainty and that they cannot control, and cannot accurately predict, significant aspects of the world around them. On the other hand, they reject the idea that forces outside their control or chance events will determine their results; they accept full responsibility for their own fate. (Moi ici: Locus de controlo no interior!!!)
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(Moi ici: Pensar no destino da Aerosoles, da Salsa e tantas outras empresas que deram saltos maiores que a perna... recordar, também, as lições de Hsieh no que se segue) When we began this study, we thought we might see 10X winners respond to a volatile, fast-changing world full of new opportunities by pursuing aggressive growth and making radical, big leaps, catching and riding the Next Big Wave, time and again. And yes, they did grow, and they did pursue spectacular opportunities as they grew. But the less successful comparison cases pursued much more aggressive growth and undertook big-leap, radical-change adventures to a much greater degree than the 10X winners.
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The 20-Mile March creates two types of self-imposed discomfort: (1) the discomfort of unwavering commitment to high performance in difficult conditions, and (2) the discomfort of holding back in good conditions. (Moi ici: Sinto que esta história de ontem também se encaixa aqui. Crescer a um ritmo demasiado obriga a alargar a gama de clientes e a cair nos braços da grande distribuição para escoar volume e escala, o que implica perda de margens... ao princípio isso não se sente porque fica camuflado pelo aumento da facturação. Quando se acorda... é um pesadelo!!! Já não se produz arte... tem-se uma linha de montagem entre mãos que tem de estar constantemente a vomitar material para o mercado... material cada vez mais apelativo para as massas, ou seja, mais indiferenciado, mais sujeito à lei do preço mais baixo)
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Some people believe that a world characterized by radical change and disruptive forces no longer favors those who engage in consistent 20-Mile Marching. Yet the great irony is that when we examined just this type of out-of-control, fast-paced environment, we found that every 10X company — unlike their less-successful peers — exemplified the 20-Mile March principle during the era we studied.
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Do you need to accomplish your 20-Mile March with 100% success? Progressive and its fellow 10X companies didn’t have a perfect record, only a near-perfect record, but they never saw missing a march as “okay.” If they missed it even once, they obsessed over what they needed to do to get back on track: There’s no excuse, and it’s up to us to correct for our failures, period. (Moi ici: Locus de controlo no interior!!!)
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Trechos retirados de "Jim Collins: How to manage through chaos"
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