Saturday, July 23, 2011

Wired For Success?

Straighten out a paperclip and you get a piece of wire. With that, you have a new starting point for many new shapes (and applications) you can form. It is so easy to allow ourselves to be limited by fixed structures. Instead, restructure how you look and perceive things. Avoid getting wired by stressful situations.

Wireless is the way to go today. It is an alternative to wired-up, access to digital communication. Digital technology has allowed us to conduct business at the speed of thought.

Fly-by-wire technology in airplanes is the norm. In a typical aeroplane, cables or rods manipulate the control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, spoilers, rudder and horizontal stabilizer. You can see on the wings of a commercial jet, with a cable running from the top front of the plane to the top of the tail. The newer planes use five different computers each receiving different 'feed' from the pilot's controls, and each sending signals to 'servos' operating different surfaces. Besides saving hundreds of kilogrammes in weight, they are much safer, as cables have broken in flight, causing loss of control of the plane. There is also less maintenance for those controls.

Be wired up, not weird.

Leadership Lessons: How wired to your networks are you? Which of your processes are fly-by-wire? How often do you solicit feedback from your team? How often do you maintain and manipulate your processes?

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