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6Ws of Corporate Growth
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1.
Believe in your vision and your business. Commit to it. If you – and your people – love what you do, you'll try to do it the best you possibly can.
2.Define
shared values and let values rule. Find people who are
competent and care about the company’s business.
3.Build
and synergize corporate capabilities. Focus on distinctive
capabilities that cannot be copied by your competitors.
4.Focus
on and care about your customer. Create a customer-centric
business model, stay close to your customers, listen to them and
partner with them to create superior customer value.
5.Create
a winning organization. Cultivate leaders. Create hot
teams, inspire, energize, and empower employees. Create an
adaptive organization. Build a growth culture. Search for
synergies. Leverage diversity.
6.Reinvent
your business continually. Work on your business. Set
stretch goals. Search for new opportunities. Facilitate
cross-pollination of ideas. Make brainstorming a religion.
7.Be
the market leader – introduce disruptive products. Surprise
markets and competitors.
Encourage creativity and radical idea generation. Challenge
assumptions, break rules. Insulate radical innovation projects
from corporate bureaucracy. Allow experimentations. Give people
freedom to fail.
8.Live
speed. Build a fast company. Make fast decisions. Simplify
everything. Eliminate bureaucracy. Pursue opportunities faster
than your competitors.
9.Institutionalize
innovation. Establish culture supporting innovation,
innovation processes and metrics. Create cross-functional teams
driving innovation, provide strategic alignment and necessary
resources.
10.Make
business fun. Business today is about passion, fun, and
winning. Make fun part of your culture. Establish creative chaos
environment. Celebrate success.
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