Part of War
What do you stand for?
Having served in the Indian Navy and now in my second career heading the RPO business, as an ex-military personnel and a fan of Sun Tzu I tend to apply my military lens in corporate situations. This Part of War against Covid is no different.
We can definitively agree that we have been ambushed by COVID and the future course of action will be decided depending on the below pointers -
- Where we are : The organization’s position can be arrived at as below in a map by plotting the capability (ex : Core competence) vs your supplies (ex : cash, financial health) in a post Covid world. It’s the equivalent of seeking a SITREP (Situation Report in military)
- Where we have to go: Our Mission can be defined as the future direction post Covid.
As leaders each of us will evolve our own bespoke strategy and further tactics once our SITREP and mission end points are clear. Irrespective of which quadrant of the map we are in its evident most will want to be in 4th Quadrant ,as their Mission.
Any company that talks only about the past may not have a future is another reality, so its action time.
We can deduce that to win this war, companies irrespective of their position will have to MOVE.
But to achieve unity of purpose and direction among its troops, firstly it must be clear what we STAND FOR.
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4 年Would like to hear more on these lines
Good read Vinod Subramanian
Alumni of IIT KGP, IIM Indore, Ex-MD TN APEX Skill Development for Logistics, Registrar, Business Analyst, Change Manager
4 年Good approach Vinod. Looking forward to hear from you the relevance to 'Air Traffic Controller' experience to your current role in the corporate affairs. Corporate have always been the beneficiary of the off shoots of the military innovations; be it at operational, tactical or strategic levels. World wars have given birth to revolution in communication technology, supply chain management, wireless communication. Linear programming is yet another classical example which saw rapid improvisation during world war and was adopted by the industries extensively post war. They extensively used to deal with transportation, scheduling, and allocation of resources to minimise cost and maximise productivity. In any combat situation the Military's simplistic approach is to list : a. Own strengths b. Enemy's strengths c. Enemy's 'probable' course of action d. Own 'probable' course of action d. From this pitching Enemy's best course of action Vs Own best course of action Can you see the relevance in the 'corporate parlance' !!!!!