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Business Model based on truth

The current business model that is now more than a 100 years old is badly flawed because it is based on a number of fallacies disproved by recent discoveries in science. Some of these include:

FALLACY

TRUTH

1. Workplaces are based on mechanics

1. Workplaces are based on organics

2. Managers think like engineers

2. Managers think like gardeners

3. Organisations are hierarchies based on silos and organisational charts

3. Organisations are closely networked living systems

4. People can't be trusted

4. People can be trusted if you trust them

5. People need to be controlled

5. People need to be free

6. Control leads to more order

6. Control leads to less order

7. Top-down management is the natural order

7. Top-down and bottom-up is natural

8. People are separate from each other

8. People are far more closely connected than most people believe

9. Products and services are pushed out the customers

9. Customers pull value (products and services) from the organisation

10. Thinking is about straight line logic and cause and affect

10. Thinking is about systems thinking, feedback loops, time lags and unintentional consequences

11. Straight lines are assumed for organisational structure

11. Natural shapes like spirals, bags, trees and curved lines are assumed for organisational structure

12. Taking is the way to success

12. Giving is the way to success

13. We live in a world of scarcity

13. We live in a world of plenty

14. The normal curve explains most distributions.

14. Many distributions are explained by power curves.

The old business model based on fallacies lead to quite different behaviours in the workplace:

FALLACIES LEAD TO

TRUTH LEADS TO

1. Unnecessary internal competition

1. Far more collaboration

2. Top-heavy political power

2. Lighter and more caring leadership

3. Lack of passion at the grass-roots

3. High energy at the grass roots

4. Fear, control and isolation

4. Trust, freedom and connectedness

5. 60% of people disengaged

5. 100% engagement

6. People feel stuck

6. People feel liberated

7. People feel less than human

7. People feel human

8. People feel abused.

8. People feel trusted.

Bruce Holland

Virtual Group Business Consultants

email: bruce.holland@virtual.co.nz. Phone: +6421 620 456 or Skype Bruce.Holland web: http://www.virtual.co.nz

Bruce helps large mature organisations be more focused, fast and flexible. Places where people have more depth, connection and meaning. "Liberating the Human spirit at work." He is one of New Zealand's most experienced change agents and is the founder of Virtual Group Business Consultants Limited.