The future is Collaborative...

In a race for survival, Neanderthals would probably give us a run for our money.?

Losing scarce resources could put their survival in question, so they always had the need to guard them. However, they learnt to handle it well by distributing roles – hunters, foragers, caregivers, scouts, based on what each person did best.

Unfortunately, even in a world of abundance, we have inherited this primitive fear of scarcity, while losing out on what the Neanderthals had as a superpower.

Collaboration.

The reason why we are the dominant species on the planet, despite not being the fastest or the strongest is?collaboration.

As McDonalds’ owner Ray Kroc put it, ‘None of us is as good as all of us’.?

It is sad to see that despite an abundance of opportunities, we regress to our primitive behaviour and start looking at members of our own tribes with suspicion.?

We engage in unhealthy competition and fear that our ‘share of the pie’ will diminish if we share or work together with others.

We employ great talent but throttle their capacity by creating mistrust and the threat of other people ‘catching up’. It’s almost like having a Porsche but forcing the driver to only drive by looking through the rear-view mirror.

But, who suffers as a result?

Clients and our people.

Consulting companies have the smartest of people, often the best of thought leadership, and the potential to work with great clients, but their people are prevented from delivering value by the cut-throat competition within.

Broken systems and broken cultures lead to unhappy, fearful employees who cannot deliver excellence and end up destroying organisations. After all, even Enron had the best talent and virtue-signalling values of "Respect, Integrity, Communication and Excellence".

That’s why at Growth Wave, we are more than a company. We are a movement.

A movement of like-minded people who love helping other people grow - grow personally, grow their people, grow their businesses. Sustainably.?

We don’t believe in the consulting house model of a ‘pie’ of defined size, which everyone must fight to get. Our belief is that we can grow the pie so that everyone gets bigger slices by collaborating instead of competing.

At the same time we want to influence and impact the status quo Consulting House model - disrupt them into disrupting their own broken systems and processes. We believe we can grow the pie, and we all get better - our clients, our people and our businesses if we focus on our species' advantage.

We offer our people psychological safety to air their ideas and work seamlessly across locations in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and South Africa. They are not warm bodies occupying seats based on a ‘staffing model’ but true, valued equals in our own definition & measure of success.

Unlike big consulting, we consider everyone a partner. Everyone an equal. And our team all have skin in the game, allowing them to earn what they are worth sustainably.

This allows us all to bring you our skills and expertise to life by focusing on the right aspect.

You. Your people. Your business.

No Consultants here with zero in-house experience. We not only solve problems for clients, we know how to implement them as well.

Drop us a line at [email protected] or pick up the phone (+61 2 8007 4822) and let’s catch-up for coffee.

Or pie. (We promise large slices)