Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday, 6 May 2003

CREATING A SENSE OF URGENCY

6 May 2003

SriRam/Raju/Kartavya,

CREATING A SENSE OF URGENCY

Enclosed please find a copy of this chapter taken from tom peter’s book

THRIVING ON CHAOS

Although written 16 years ago, the fundamentals (of doing business/of success) hold equally valid today.

If anything, during these 16 years,

-    Competition has increased many - fold & become cut-throat

-    The speed with which businesses must develop & implement, new strategies in order to survive, has gone-up tremendously.

No wonder, today’s eco Times reports that employment in organized sector in India has gone down for the FIFTH consecutive year and software companies have started trimming manpower costs.

“Hustle as strategy. We must cut this cycle time and that by 75 to 90 percent (and do it fast) become orders-of-magnitude more responsive, implement thousand of individual and team suggestions each day.

Learning to love change minute-to-minute risk-taking organizational fluidity by everyone. We must break out of the old molds, and fast.

Monster/Jobs Ahead/Naukri

-    New, flexible competitors : GPRS (Global Recruiter Webservice of RecruitMine & Resusearch)

-    New market creation is the premier business success strategy

-    Customer visits by everyone

-    Numerous “small starts” and instant pilot test

-    “Swipe” ideas from anywhere

-    Eccentric champions

-    Pay for performance plan

-    Self managing team

-    Constant rewards and celebrations for small accomplishments.

-    Encouragement to “be the best” and “ be unique” on some important performance dimension.

-    Everyone evaluated information availability to everyone.

-    “Bottom-up” setting of objectives and appraisal of performance.

You must be and act excited.

Being fascinated by it showing it off to everyone, displaying it everywhere bragging about it (and its creators). The sound of the guns is wherever the customer is.

Be Observed (by your people) canceling an important meeting with the boss in order to rush to a customer’s side. Heightened self-awareness. Urgency and laughter go hand in glove. Get going try something. We simply must learn bureaucratic, action delaying foibles (L-8). We must learn to laugh at interesting and useful mistakes.

Be the first to get in to work:- I am always in first –last 44 years.

Your personal display of spunk, of energy and zest for your task and life in general especially if you are visible to the line, will be the single most important determinant of the organization’s energy.

A sure sign of first-class leadership.

Urgency and Fear:-

Hustle-urgent testing’s of the untried.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and decisively to start new things.

Exhibiting a willingness to move fast to test strategies, Experiments fast, bravely, and continually having the guts to cut off the failed experiment before it becomes an elephantine disaster then plunging ahead with new one post haste.

If any of the projects, Manhattan-Ego-cyber, fail to produce desired results (1 million resumes in 6 months)-then, we should scuttle them unceremoniously! We must discard all “historical baggage”. May be we will then, try OPERATION BLACK-HOLE! On “JAWS” or something else.
Confidence only comes not when you are rolling the dice on a “big idea” but when you know you’re working successfully at implanting the basic skills which will turn the organization into a hotbed of experiments aimed at improving everything dramatically and creating little new markets at a record clip.

Our organization’s new sense of urgency.

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