One of my favourite blogs is Marc Cuban’s www.blogmaverick.com. If you haven’t visited the site before, check it out and bookmark it. It’s a must read. He provides some really interesting perspectives into the world of sport and business.
On February 4th, Marc blogged about his frustration in business with organizations who continue to do things just because that’s the way they’ve always be done:
Probably one of the most annoying things I have to deal with in business is that people never question the status quo. It doesn’t matter what business it is. I doesn’t even matter if its something that applies to how I do things, that I have become set in my ways on. It is rare when people just ask questions or apply some critical analysis to the things right in front of them.
The NBA is the perfect example. So many things are the way they are, because thats the way they always have been. I guess it was the old adage, “if it’s not broke, don’t not fix it”. But not being broken, doesn’t mean its optimal. Yet, just the smallest bit of critical analysis can lead to changes. Fortunately, the NBA is evolving into an organization that will change. There is a new management style that has evolved over the past few years, which has lead to valid changes initiated by me and others which I think have benefited the league and our fans.
Hear, hear!
In this day and age, it’s really important that companies have a culture that not only accepts but encourages change. As Marc says in his post:
Even the most fully engrained rules or processes should have critical analysis applied to them. Just because something isn’t broken doesn’t mean a business can’t benefit by looking to do something different. Strong organizations encourage the change and great employees always are looking to find ways to take even the basics and make them better.
Head his advice. Don’t wait for a triggering event like a missed quarterly earnings call or a downturn in the economy to take a critical review of your business processes. Quite often you’ll find that even small changes can have a big impact, multi-million dollar impact on the bottom line.
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