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 …
Ask 10 people their view of a current situation and you will often get 10 different views.
This tells us at least that our cvs is not the only one and whilst their cvs may not be one we wish to take, at least it allows us to move to a bvs.
A bvs could mean that we need to do something we don’t want to do and procrastination can set in. My way around this was to take the Nike Logo and “Just Do It” and then, canI find an even bvs and “Just Do It”.
This eventually became habitual thinking for me and whole new worlds opened up for me.
What I have learned here is that had I taken a bvs x 10, I could have saved myself a lot of time.
So now I have a new mind set to work on and I know that in time my thinking will habitually become bvs x 10 +.
Think to move away from the ground of the old system of doing things to find new ways. There will always be alternatives which can be ten times better. By repeatedly searching for a better way is bound bring improvement to the current system.
It is actually not hard to just stop for a few minutes being doing a task that you are so used to doing and think whether there is a better way, quicker way of doing it and this process has helped me many times since attending Dr Michael’s first course to change from CVS to BVS. Or if the task is so boring and consuming, just stop doing it and think how to make it more enjoyable and less consuming. It worked for me.
We are often locked into a particular view of a situation – without even realising it. The need to create “space” so that it can be viewed from other directions (& create BVS) is essential. This takes practice – neurons that fire together, wire together (medicine is using this to recoup stroke victims etc)
A heightened consciousness to be aware of when you are instinctively using the CVS and deliberately move to the BVS. The repetition of this move will make it become more automatic for you. It will be challenging at first.
I attended that talk in Canberra and sometimes you just hear something that you know is going to sit you on your behind. Michael did that. Building a cognitive pattern that can open up a whole range of opportunities. Bring it on.
leadership is moving people from one level of limitation to a lesser level of limitation or a higher level of freedom.in sum -escape.to be able to provide the basis for escape one must necessarily move on the spiral of knowledge.ie theory-praxis-theory.for an activity to occupy the realm of praxis it must be repeated so it becomes the practice or the norm.up along the spiral with hindsight that you are looking for a bvs you learn to become more knowledgeable
Ask 10 people their view of a current situation and you will often get 10 different views.
This tells us at least that our cvs is not the only one and whilst their cvs may not be one we wish to take, at least it allows us to move to a bvs.
A bvs could mean that we need to do something we don’t want to do and procrastination can set in. My way around this was to take the Nike Logo and “Just Do It” and then, canI find an even bvs and “Just Do It”.
This eventually became habitual thinking for me and whole new worlds opened up for me.
What I have learned here is that had I taken a bvs x 10, I could have saved myself a lot of time.
So now I have a new mind set to work on and I know that in time my thinking will habitually become bvs x 10 +.
Think to move away from the ground of the old system of doing things to find new ways. There will always be alternatives which can be ten times better. By repeatedly searching for a better way is bound bring improvement to the current system.
Escape + Search + Think …..Even more powerful when a group are willing to detach from their immediate ideas and search and search for a BVS .
It is actually not hard to just stop for a few minutes being doing a task that you are so used to doing and think whether there is a better way, quicker way of doing it and this process has helped me many times since attending Dr Michael’s first course to change from CVS to BVS. Or if the task is so boring and consuming, just stop doing it and think how to make it more enjoyable and less consuming. It worked for me.
Thanks to Dr Michael
We are often locked into a particular view of a situation – without even realising it. The need to create “space” so that it can be viewed from other directions (& create BVS) is essential. This takes practice – neurons that fire together, wire together (medicine is using this to recoup stroke victims etc)
A heightened consciousness to be aware of when you are instinctively using the CVS and deliberately move to the BVS. The repetition of this move will make it become more automatic for you. It will be challenging at first.
Great summary.The essentials are in these simple steps.
I attended that talk in Canberra and sometimes you just hear something that you know is going to sit you on your behind. Michael did that. Building a cognitive pattern that can open up a whole range of opportunities. Bring it on.
leadership is moving people from one level of limitation to a lesser level of limitation or a higher level of freedom.in sum -escape.to be able to provide the basis for escape one must necessarily move on the spiral of knowledge.ie theory-praxis-theory.for an activity to occupy the realm of praxis it must be repeated so it becomes the practice or the norm.up along the spiral with hindsight that you are looking for a bvs you learn to become more knowledgeable