The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.
This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.