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TURNING TO OFFENSE

1.  The big revelation 2.  Swimming downstream 3.  Sharing the pain and gain

Driving on two tracks

1.  Setting short-term milestones 2.  Keeping the new path in Focus 3.  Let the numbers flex 4.  Financial resilience to withstand shocks and transitions 5.  Keep others with you

A mind-set for Offense

1.  Removing the Blockages attachment to your existing core competencies inability to build a new core competency obsolescence of key people FEAR avoidance of opposition 2.  Where courage comes from to tame the uncertainty, you will need to define the questions that need answering and the facto5rs to watch to get your answers. isolating the unanswered questions and gauging the speed with which they were likely to go one way OR another becomes a guide to management

Defining the Path

Consumers hold the key Born and reborn digital Using Math for Offense

Tools to Build Perceptual Acuity

1.  Seek Contrary Viewpoints 2.  Occasionally Dissect the Past 3.  Dive into the Source of Risk 4.  Continually build your mental map of changes in Multiple Industries 5.  Consider who might use an invention, patent, or new law to create a bend in the road 6.  Ask what's new? 7.  Use outsiders to multiply your capacity to scan 8.  Watch the Social Scene 9.  Be a Voracious Reader

Bends in the Road

1.  Perceptual acuity 2.  A mind-set to see opportunity in uncertainty 3.  The ability to see a new path forward and commit to it 4.  Adeptness in managing the transition to the new path 5.  Skill in making the organization drivable and agile

Uncertainty

Every uncertainty is magnified by quantum increases in the speed of change, largely brought about by the revolution in computer and communication technologies.  Structural uncertainty arises from your external environment.  Unusual approach by focusing on lower cost and innovation at the same time.  Uniqueness.  Bend in the road contains a message about a future growth trajectory that someone could explore and exploit if he or she looked at it through a different lens without being controlled by an existing core competency.  Math house (software tools) to take advantage of uncertainty, you must make the use of algorithms part of your vocabulary (new paradigm).  The attacker's advantage is the ability to detect ahead of others those forces that are radically reshaping marketplace then position your business to make the next move first.  Uncertainty is not something to fear, but rather something to immerse yourself in, because in it lie the possibilities you can combine to create som