In his 1970 book Future Shock the sociologist and futurist Alvin Toffler suggested that the pace of change was accelerating. Reality has confirmed his assertion. As external changes accelerate and competitive advantages shift successfully leading transformation becomes an organizational imperative. As the world changes, external pressures continue to alter life inside our organizations and inside the individuals who serve our organizational visions.
As humans, we mostly run on autopilot: We are habit-forming machines. Our brains are even wired to drive any practiced or rehearsed item into a habit. As individuals, this makes changing our personal habits difficult to do and this has become the very reason most transformational efforts fail.
Think about how you learned to drive a car. Your first experience might have been to keep the pedals straight. Today, you put your keys in the ignition and don't remember the ride to your destination. Our brains take the information we are learning and hold it superficially in our short-term memory. Once that information is practiced or embedded it is stored deep beneath the surface of the brain where it becomes an automatic process or a habit.
In business, how many times have you let something slide and allowed a habit to grow with yourself or even with someone else? Perhaps you did not spend enough time training an employee, only to have to remove that employee later on for their creation of a bad habit.
There is no rubber stamp method of building the organizational habit of sustainable transformation for rapid environmental change. It has to be built into your unique organizational culture. Organizations are too complex to permit any universal model that can explain all the dimensions, dynamics, reactions, and irrationalities related to every change. The work must be done uniquely for each organization - study the current state and the desired state, take the right action for the organization and its people, then measure the results and adjust as needed.
We at the Executive Sandbox® work with you, the movers and shakers in business, the people who want to create amazing contributions to your organizations and the world and are in the position to take on those challenges. You might not know where to start, what transformations you should be assessing, how to plan it or how to create or distinguish the desired outcomes. This is where we come in.
We are innovation and transformation process experts, behavioral analysts and motivators, organizational systemologists and re-focusers (for when your transformation goes sideways). We help you figure out where to start, build the skills necessary to create extraordinary transformations tapping into the information and answers already contained within your brain, your executive team's brains and in your organization's brains.
Most importantly, we do it all with fun in every process, game or tool.
Specifically, we work with any organizations in business, the public sector or the professions whose organizations are in the midst of:
To transform your personal results, those of your team or your entire organization, at The Executive Sandbox® Inc. or call us at (415) 497-3979.