Yes: Dare To Piss Off People!

It's tempting to be " all things to all people ". Thats also the graveyard for all your uniqueness, sadly.

Appealing to the lowest common denominator, the lowest hanging fruit, because it is the easy thing to do or the ' done thing ', is the default going around. But, nothing innovative, relevant, meaningful or exemplary came out because of such mindset.

It’s a new world of business. So, isn’t it time to ring out the old and bring in the new??A?new mandate has to enter the fray.

Can we shake free of the past? Including(yes definitely) past successes! Can we re imagine an entirely new way of doing business?

Could we stop using these two traditional phrases( I will tell you why):

” Push the envelope “

” Think outside the box “

The problem with both the above(other than their gross overuse) is:

Both suggest that there is an intact envelope or a sturdy box from whose known (and identified borders) we can step out from. But remember:

The envelope is already torn and crumpled..and

The box has been run over by a speeding trailer truck.

So, the task at hand is to:

Think “Weird“, however weird it may sound..be wired for it!

(Re)think ” excellence “

Re-Imagine ” leadership “

Get strange. Did you know that?the No 1 source of innovation is ‘ pissed off ‘ people ??People who just cannot tolerate the mundane, the silly, the mediocre that is happening around them. That’s the origin of the best?innovation?you can ever lay your hands on. So,?go ahead and seek pissed off people!?HR, are you listening?

Fire the planners.?Hire the freaks.

An “excessive cult of the consumer“- ”?customer driven” also means?being slave to demographics, market research and focus groups. So, ‘listening to customers ‘ might just be the No 1 sin in marketing...

Turn the cliched phrase on its head. ‘The customer is always right‘ to ‘?The customer is always late?‘-

Who wanted?Post It?Notes? Nobody for a dozen years till?3M?‘ wrote ‘ history and we still keep ‘posting’.

Who wanted?Fax Machines? Nobody for the longest time till a ‘?critical mass?‘ of users came along.

Who wanted?CDs? Nobody or at least none of us who had just been through the transformation from phonograph records to tapes. Then the kids started using CDs and the awesome quality of sound made us go Ka-boom!

In the words of?Doug Atkin, a partner at?Merkley Newman Harty: ” These days you can’t succeed as a company if you are consumer led-because?in a world of constant change, consumers can’t anticipate the next big thing. Companies should be?idea-led and?consumer-informed”.

It’s time to re-imagine. At?ISD Global ?we are constantly trying to be as future ready as possible, driven by the weird, motivated by the untried and fuelled by no fear. To generate?ideas?that can transform businesses and thereby quality of human life.

Your time starts now. The clock is ticking!

ENDS