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Richard Martin’s Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres

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  • December 10, 2012
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Brilliant Manoeuvre
An army on the offensive advances on a wide front to probe for weaknesses and gaps in enemy defenses, reinforcing small incursions to create breakthroughs. Similarly, a business in growth mode must widen the scope of its activities by trying many ‘experiments’ to discover and develop new opportunities, and then reinforce  successful ones while dropping failures.

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Working with a CEO client of mine, we’ve been developing a new culture for his company so that everyone–executives, managers, and employees–can create growth initiatives and spot opportunities. This can include new products, services, clients, and markets, or also internal improvements to processes and systems. As an example of the concept, late last year the CEO approved an idea that was suggested by a sales manager after she came back from a trade convention. She had met an app developer and suggested to the CEO that they create an app for one of its division’s with this developer. The CEO approved and entered a licensing agreement with the developer. In just the first year this new app has grown to represent about 45% of revenue in that division. It is not necessarily easy to instil a culture of innovation and risk-taking in an organization where people are used to top-down leadership. Specific skills and processes must be created and then reinforced constantly by senior leaders, especially–in this case–the CEO. Over time, however, this is the only way for this company to grow. It is also the only way that any company can grow and thrive.

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For this concept to work, everyone in the organization has to know its vision and mission, its key objectives. The company must also implement ‘mission command,’ where everyone is involved in implementing strategy, operations, and tactics. They also require the tools and techniques to explore, experiment, and develop growth or efficiency initiatives. Senior leaders must also reward prudent, calculated risk-taking and encourage individual and group initiative.

Richard Martin is a consultant, speaker, and executive coach. He brings his military and business leadership and management experience to bear for executives and organizations seeking to exploit change, maximize opportunity, and minimize risk.

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Richard Martin is the President of Alcera Consulting Inc., a strategic advisory firm collaborating with top-level leaders to provide strategic insight, navigate uncertainty, and drive transformative change, ensuring market dominance and excellence in public governance. He is the author of Brilliant Manoeuvres: How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles and the creator of the blog ExploitingChange.com. Richard is also the developer of Strategic Epistemology, a groundbreaking theory that focuses on winning the battle for minds in a world of conflict by dismantling opposing worldviews and ideologies through strategic narrative and archetypal awareness.

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