Dearth of knowledge and competence is not the current problem in organizations; mindset and personal mastery are?

Looking forward to the future of business

Many individuals and organization are making plenty of revenue from courses that instruct individuals how to be better marketing, finance  or administrative persons.  Or masteral degrees.

But in my experience, that isnt the strategic issue or the problem in organization,  They are in Peter Senges term:   personal mastery and mindset.  Unchanging mindset and personal mastery result in:

              1.  No change; -in  sales and revenues.  Flat and going south performance

              2.  Delays

              3.  Defective products

              4.  Non conformance to standards;

              5.  Waste and losses

              6.  Problems and more problems

              7.  Angry customers and exodus to competitors

              8.  Failing and losing organization

Talk about grand strategy and cute campaigns.  Unless we get people on the line and as one, nothing happens.  Senge was right that the correct strategy is to get people get in line for one vision through shared learning

Managers must talk less on process and technique but work more on team building and getting the people work as one.  

Changing mindset is the key to strategic thinking

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

AGSB, Makati City Philippines | October 27 2013October 27, 2013



I was a witness to another defense of a strategic paper, the capstone of the MBA student requirements for graduation.  The defender is a finance person of a power company;  and she kept on answering that she does not know this development on external environment because she is the finance person and what is preventing her from thinking strategically is that perception and mindset that she can look at the company business from the standpoint of a finance person.  And when asked on technical matters, she would not know how to answer.

Because of this, she was not up to date on the following:  renewable energy, the state of black technology vs green technology abroad and their effect on the P n L. This looks demanding and exacting but I think a graduate student must be a this level.

I noticed also that while the business is not responsive to the environment, the senior executives of their company as well as the student just looks at the preservation of the company and not focusing on innovating and bringing it up par to world standards, making this more competitive.  They are in the survival mode.