THE STATUS QUO HAS NO STATUS

Just as Dilip Mukerjea  often exhorts:

"Unless you keep learning and growing (which means change), the status quo has no status!"

A WISE QUOTE FOR MONDAY MORNING

"Your life is yours to create. It's time to stop struggling, to stop fighting to "make a living". It's time to step to one side, to take a time out, & design the life of your dreams!"

~ Dr Stephen Hudson, success coach;

Say Keng's personal comments:

The 'Lifescaping' methodological tool as envisaged & designed by Dilip Mukerjea for his 'Lifescaping' seminar with the Singapore Institute of Management is one good tool to use in designing the life of your dreams.


Readers can check out the next seminar schedule at SIM.

A WISE QUOTE FOR MONDAY MORNING

“In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible & plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.”

~ Edward De Bono;

SHREDDING THE STATUS QUO

Innovation is the Bridge to the Future!

In their quest for the best, leaders need insight, creativity, and judgement.

Continual innovation comes from gaining credibility, via commitment towards our capabilities.

Magic happens when we dare to venture into the dark, and pull out possibilities that lie camouflaged within.

Are you able to convert your ideas into cash?

Do you know that it is possible to create fountains of innovation within your organisation?

If not, read on!

We live in perilous, gyrating times. With imperceptible alacrity, today’s core competencies become tomorrow’s core rigidities.

Creative synergy fuels innovative momentum; this is what propels the knowledge ecologies of today.

Corporate learning programmes must cannibalise their Stone Age agendas ~ because they now know this truth:

Creativity or Catastrophe!

Corporations and communities have recognized their need for Creative Commando Units to direct their brains at continual innovation.

Candidates applying for jobs are entering a marketspace of unprecedented turbulence.

The New Millennium is characterized by great flux, featuring the evaporation of obsolete data graveyards. Recruitment scenarios can no longer pay lip service to the contents of dusty manuals. Interview scenes of today demand evidence of brain force.

The status quo is being constantly shredded, and executive challenges demand executive excellence ~ by all members of the organisation.

The choice is clear: Innovate or Incinerate!

Move . . . from Bureau-CRAZY to Bureau CREATIVE!

[Excerpted from the 'Ideas on Ideas' edition of The Braindancer Series of bookazines by Dilip Mukerjea. All the images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]

Say Keng's personal comments:

Dilip Mukerjea is absolulely right when he exhorts earlier in this weblog:

"Unless you keep learning & growing, the status quo has no status."

THE LEARNING REVOLUTION

The Learning Era is upon us.

In the grand scheme of human evolution, generally accepted learning procedures have been unable to keep pace with the high-velocity transformations that most enterprises now face.

Most prevailing learning systems are still rooted firmly in the industrial era, where capital was seen as financial and physical, not intellectual.

The antiquity of our current learning systems is critical. These systems tend to perpetuate the status quo, within which, there is little status. Transforming and correcting this scenario calls for much individual resolve, and collective action.

New dimensions of learning have unfolded with stunning speed … either we move ahead, or stay dead! The preceding half-century has been defined by computer programmers, lawyers, and MBAs.

Their time is passing.

The world is waking up to the need for a fresh approach to the future. In this scenario, we will see the emergence, prominence, and dominance of an invigorating, modern consciousness, where the players are meaning makers, their collective consciousness the very pith of brilliance.

[To be continued in the Next Post. Excerpted from the 'Leadership, Learning & Laughter' edition of The Braindancer Series of bookazines by Dilip Mukerjea. All the images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]

Say Keng's personal comments:

What Dilip Mukerjea has written so eloquently is very true.

In fact, I recall vividly, way back into the early nineties, having come across the work of the American philosopher Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), who gave this small piece of great advice:

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

Just reflect on the following forecasted future scenarios, which I have read not too long ago [from the book, 'What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking Innovation' by futurist/business strategist Jim Carroll]:

- 65% of pre-school children today will be employed in careers & jobs that don't yet exist;

- most people will find themselves not only in 4 or 5 different jobs in their lifetime, but in 4 or 5 different careers;

- the half-life of an engineer 's knowledge is about 5 years, & as low as 2 to 3 years for a computer pro (*);

(*) In a separate slideshare presentation available on the net, which I can't recall the source, the presenter has mentioned that "by 2020, 1/2 of what you know in the first year (of university) will be out of date by the third year".

THE LEARNING ECONOMY

This is the Age of Competitive Intelligence! It has given birth to The Learning Economy.

And thus, the need for Human Resources, humans standing in reserve, waiting to be used, has been replaced by the need for Resourceful Humans!

In a globally interlinked world, business success is based on cognitive success.

Cognitive has two equally significant meanings: “to know” and “to beget.” When blended, these two meanings suggest that all birth is an awakening to knowledge. To know and to generate are inseparable.

RED ALERT!

Are the actions, transactions, and interactions of your business processes perpetuating the decaying status quo, or are they alive and infused with novelty, value, and passion?

Are your people able to convey unforgettably brilliant first impressions?

Does your organisation recognise that its lifeblood must be open communications of information: thoughts, feelings, and ideas?

Is innovation pursuing you or are you pursuing innovation?

If innovation is pursuing you it means that the rate of change outside your organisation is much greater than that within it. That spells trouble.

Today, innovation must trump bureaucracy, for red tape has morphed into red alert!

The choice is clear: innovate or disintegrate.

Is The Red Tape The ONLY Thing That’s Holding Your Organisation Together?

What are YOU doing about it?

[Excerpted from the 'Leadership, Learning & Laughter' edition of The Braindancer Series of bookazines by Dilip Mukerjea. All the images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]

A WISE QUOTE FOR MONDAY MORNING

"Unless you keep learning & growing, the status quo has no status."

~ Dilip Mukerjea, Learning Chef & Braindancer;