October 7th, 2008
The markets demonstrated
a very whimsical humour yesterday, gleefully watching as investors all
over the world gasped and tested the capacity of their beating hearts.
Investors all over the world
are pretty much in a state of shock after watching the main market indices
crash to intra-day levels not seen since the 80's. The amount of money
invested sent many a retirement fund down to Hades as the value burned
in an infernal pool of disgrace.
This should act as a lesson
or communicate the valuable lesson that you simply cannot get things
for free without some sort of cost. That goes to hoardes of money. Thus
the issue with the present capitalist scenario. People and corporations
were hoping to get money for practically nothing. So in turn they overindulged
and now the greed is biting them all in the buds while the responsible
folk are paying heaviest for these errors.
What really ought to be
happening now is a total reevaluation of existing corporate values and
start to look within for answers. By within we mean mustering up as
much of your hidden potential as possible.
Your people, the ones who
have weathered the storm while their so-called leaders navigated through
an oceanic maelstrom in nothing but a dinghy. They're saying to take
the tugboat or even an oceanliner that is well-equipped for this oncoming
storm. They simply do not want to see the boat capsize and taking everyone
down with it while their captain swims to safety.
There is an unlimited well
of possibilities, perspectives and future profitability to be had through
the extraction and refinement of the raw talent that inhabits your office
walls and halls. This is the time to seriously take your available resources
and invest them into greater opportunities for improved products, services
and other unique items that can elevate your organization above and
beyond the present crash. While the elevator is on a violent trip downward,
yours will be slowly going the other way - up.
How you do that depends
on the strength of numerous factors.
1. The strength and viability
of your human resources: if your HR department merely sits around and
idles through all day, then it's not very effective. The more involved
it is in rallying support and building strong bases and training your
troops for the onslaught, the better you'll be able to advance your
company's territory.
2. The strength of your
organizational cohesion: how tight you are as a unit will determine
how quickly and accurately the initiatives will unfold. If it's a mish-mash
of broken communication and war lines, then nothing will get done.
3. The presence of strong
organizational culture: how much reinforcement do your company values,
mission and goals get stated in and throughout your company? How well
do you try to encompass the human factor in your daily operations?
All of these matter how
strong your internal soul searching will turn out to be, and how deep
you go to find even the smallest detail you never knew existed within
your company.
It's time to delve deep
into the organization's soul and discover what you can become amidst
this mid-life crisis that is upon us.
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