In the mid-80s, when Jack Welch launched GE x10 he said: I would love to have a management team that really understood the cvsx10=bvs equation. Its the value-added role in the management process.
At that time GE was a USD35 billion manufacturer of everything from locomotives to light bulbs. By the time Jack left in 2001 GE market value had maximised to USD484 billion making it the most valuable company in the world.
Today, the most valuable company in the world is Google. In February 2013, WIRED Magazines Steven Levy interviewed Larry Page of Google and wrote:
Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that youre basically doing the same thing as everybody else. Thats why Page expects his employees to create products and services that are 10 times better than the competition.
MICHAEL HEWITT-GLEESON designed GE x10 for Jack Welch and is acknowledged as the father of x10 thinking. He is the author of The x10 Memeplex: Multiply Your Business By Ten! (Prentice Hall, 2000). Michael talks about x10 thinking here …
A lot of time the challenge is against self. When we are in the quagmire of hardship we are momentarily blurred with the cvs and blocked hard and and fast from thinking that there is a bvs.
CVS’s are often full of constraints. The key is unlock the chains (more perceived than actual) and to be determined to move to a BVS. IT seems to me that even leadership teams are hindered by the black hat thinking mode. I am now conjuring up an image of the tagger’s weapon of chice, namely, a spay can. My challenge will be to utilise the spray can on the balck hats.
This is the real challenge that I face on a daily basis. It regularly takes and effort to take a helicopter view of thinking and my behaviors and how I can make a difference – BVS is a life long challenge.
Frequently, those personal governing variables get in the way – the need to win in my case, that are built into my thinking and behaviors.
Always great to take time and take that helipcoter view of onesself – this is my repetition challenge.
Yes! As a voice teacher, I totally agree. I tell my students that repitition leads to habit. And perhaps not the length of time one puts in daily, but the ritual of doing an exercise every day at the same time, for the same amount of time. That puts whatever the activity is on AUTOMATIC!
Repetition is the key to success. It equates to practice and practice makes perfect and the old golf saying “The more I practice the luckier I get”
A lot of time the challenge is against self. When we are in the quagmire of hardship we are momentarily blurred with the cvs and blocked hard and and fast from thinking that there is a bvs.
Think and Think differently atleast 10 times
Being reminded of the fact that we can train our minds to take on a ‘bvs’ is helpful.
I need to be conscious that there is a bvs out there for the many things we do in a certain way because ‘that’s what we’ve always done’.
CVS’s are often full of constraints. The key is unlock the chains (more perceived than actual) and to be determined to move to a BVS. IT seems to me that even leadership teams are hindered by the black hat thinking mode. I am now conjuring up an image of the tagger’s weapon of chice, namely, a spay can. My challenge will be to utilise the spray can on the balck hats.
This is the real challenge that I face on a daily basis. It regularly takes and effort to take a helicopter view of thinking and my behaviors and how I can make a difference – BVS is a life long challenge.
Frequently, those personal governing variables get in the way – the need to win in my case, that are built into my thinking and behaviors.
Always great to take time and take that helipcoter view of onesself – this is my repetition challenge.
Yes! As a voice teacher, I totally agree. I tell my students that repitition leads to habit. And perhaps not the length of time one puts in daily, but the ritual of doing an exercise every day at the same time, for the same amount of time. That puts whatever the activity is on AUTOMATIC!
Fascinating! I’m eager to learn ‘how to’ do this.
I already have adiffenrent view of the situation