Case Study When Smart Thinking Blocks Progress

As a business leader we can if we choose too; abstain from participating in intelligent game theory as a means to ensuring the overall sustainability of our business or we can proactively participate in the same. But there is absolutely no doubt that life in all its complex forms including; business solvency or growth is a game of winners and losers, where understanding game theory really does make a very real difference short, medium and longer term. Therefore there can or should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that survival in business these days requires more than just a high degree of intellect working in harmony with a businesses overall commercial commitments. You see; success in business today requires all businesses to both understand and accept when there own business thinking is in direct conflict and/or challenges the intellect of their clients and/or their own supply chain.

To quote Tyron Edwards “Thoughts lead onto purposes; purposes go forth into actions; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”

If we apply that rationale to any given business it’s clear to see that business drivers create outputs; those outputs then go onto form beliefs; those beliefs thereafter underwrite a businesses overall business approach, but those approaches have the potential to generate either business sustainability and/or failure without the presence to know when your business approach is implicitly wrong and/or simply ill conceived.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a smart business and/or one committed to continually pushing and/or expanding your own businesses internal intellectual envelop. The only conflict of interests you’re likely to face in that undertaking is when you lose sight of the fact that your clients and/or supply chains fail to engage with you simply because they neither have the desire and/or the intellect to fully participate in what your business has to say.

Barry Hardy Interim Executive Solutions