Godel, Escher, Bach? Bah! Sapiens? Humbug! This Christmas, if you want the real deal, ask Santa to put The Infinite Staircase in your stocking. amazon.com/gp/product/195
#philosophy
Follow
Infinite Staircase Book
@InfiniteStairBk
A complete look at how the universe has evolved and our ethical place within it.
infinitestaircasebymoore.comJoined March 2021
Infinite Staircase Book’s Tweets
Whether you are a start-up going through the tech adoption life cycle for the first time, or an incumbent enterprise dealing with a category disruption, it's critical to adjust your management model to where your marketplace stands in its adoption journey.
6
22
Metrics are a device to ensure visibility and accountability. The key is to associate the right metrics with the right people, the ones who can have the most impact on the level of power in question. linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-y
#management #leadership
5
19
For portfolio valuation look at how many categories does the enterprise participate in, and how is each category faring. Notable changes in category power typically come through M&A, often supplementing organic innovation that is looking to scale quickly. linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-y
5
17
In established enterprises, there are 2 fundamental go-to-market motions (pick and shovel). The shovel is for capturing established market share. The pick is for breaking into new market segments, often in association with new product lines.
5
20
As in our computing centers so in our enterprises: we no longer scale up—we scale out across teams, business units, value chains, and ecosystems. Implicit in these organizational models is an ethic of #collaboration. linkedin.com/pulse/building
#DigitalTransformation
4
15
During inflationary times, engage with economic buyers, armed with analytics showing where they are getting value and where they could be getting more. You may need to “give away” valuable resources in a “strategic act of generosity”. linkedin.com/pulse/managing
#inflation
4
16
Inflationary pressures cause everyone to have to make tough decisions, including customers. Your best defense here is a good offense. Move beyond helping with onboarding and adoption to focus on realized customer ROI. linkedin.com/pulse/managing
#inflation #management #leadership
4
15
When we think of cost management, we tend to focus on direct cost of dollars spent. We often miss the indirect cost of time spent, and the even more indirect cost or opportunity missed. Money you can borrow or earn back. Time and opportunity you cannot.
7
17
I'm at #Propulsion2022 this week. Tune in for my session: Connecting Product and Commercial Teams to Deliver New Product Revenue Streams. I’m joined by the CMO of , , and EVP, Alexa Vignone.
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/propulsion-2
@PropelPLM
1
6
16
2 years into the pandemic and #DigitalTransformation is more important than ever. This article by draws on concepts from my book Zone to Win to explain why.
5
19
#Accountability begins with identifying a single accountable person. Without this single point of coordination, initiatives are unable to take decisive action under conditions of uncertainty. linkedin.com/pulse/performa
#management
5
18
#Management is about delivering performance committed to in plans, and while there are big differences in management styles, all are measured ultimately by performance metrics. We may not like the numbers we're supposed to make, but we know what they are. linkedin.com/pulse/performa
6
19
We talk a lot about #leadership but perhaps not enough about #management. But to have real impact on the world, we must eventually lean on strong management to operate at scale.
8
16
Systems are like water mains, a shared utility designed to operate reliably at scale. Programs are like garden hoses. They are a flexible delivery mechanism designed to operate locally with precision. Both follow process but to very different ends. linkedin.com/pulse/producti
5
19
Systems that are run like programs allow too many exceptions and become increasingly hard to change and expensive to maintain. Programs that are run like systems deliver the services they promise, but are not held accountable for actually changing state.
6
18
We are privileged not entitled to live under rule of law. It's a freedom we must commit to preserving. We must make ourselves competent in the tests for truth and ensure that our children are well trained in them as well. linkedin.com/pulse/testing-
#philosophy
4
17
Truth can be decidedly unpopular, so there will always be strong social pressures to acquiesce to alternative claims. Such pressures play into the hands of the autocratic and the righteous across the entirety of the political spectrum. linkedin.com/pulse/testing-
5
16
It's commonplace to lament that truth has become a casualty of our digital era. It's also baloney. There are clear tests for truth that have served humankind for centuries, and there's no reason to abandon them. We just need to bring them back into focus. infinitestaircasebymoore.com/2022/05/08/tes
10
23
#ICYMI I enjoyed speaking to Sarah Boisvert on the premiere episode of her podcast. Listen in as we discuss Crossing the Chasm and how the lessons from the book still apply today.
5
15
When there is Cell Level Interlock, leaders can have a clear answer for what they have learned and great context not only for what will be done differently, but why, and in some cases even how. That is what makes for a learning organization. linkedin.com/pulse/do-we-re
5
15
In times of disruption, it is mandatory to enforce cell level accountability across all #sales channels, during both annual and quarterly business planning process. linkedin.com/pulse/do-we-re
1
5
15
Cell-level interlock refers to setting #sales and contribution margin targets for all product lines and sales theaters on an individual basis. What's it for? It's to help product line and theater owners allocate resources as strategically as possible.
8
16
All living things seek homeostasis. Strategies for living, in this context, are simply mechanisms for achieving a more desirable condition of equilibrium. That is what separates human intelligence from all forms of computational functionalism. infinitestaircasebymoore.com/2022/04/27/som
#philosophy
5
20
Mind emerges from brain under conditions of socialization. As described in The Infinite Staircase, consciousness comes into being with brain, whereas mind comes into being with language and narrative. Mental experience is private, mind is not. infinitestaircasebymoore.com/2022/04/27/som
#philosophy
4
15
Without socialization, there is no language, no narratives, no analytics, and hence no mind. In using words that he did not invent but were taught to him, Descartes should have said, I think, therefore we are. infinitestaircasebymoore.com/2022/04/27/som
#philosophy #mind #InfiniteStaircase
8
22
4 Questions to Ask When a Plan Fails:
1)What did we think was going to happen?
2)What did happen?
3)What did we learn?
4)What are we going to do differently going forward?
Bonus- Remember the mantra: Win or learn.
linkedin.com/pulse/win-lear
7
17
The goal of any plan is to win. But nobody wins all the time. When we lose, the key thing is to learn. It's OK to lose, but it isn't OK not to learn, and it is really not OK to lose the same way again. That isn’t failure to learn. That is abject denial. linkedin.com/pulse/win-lear
6
21
#Collaboration cultures excel at empathy but, as a result, often struggle with #accountability. If we can’t be accountable, we cannot be an effective force in the world, and our enterprise’s reason for being is unavoidably compromised. linkedin.com/pulse/win-lear
#leadership
7
14
As time displaces money as the scarcest ingredient in the economic equation, agile must come to the fore. Latency is the cholesterol that hardens operational arteries, so taking time out of processes as opposed to taking money out needs to be a priority. linkedin.com/pulse/next-gen
4
17
Managing an external relationship that optimizes an organization’s core competence while minimizing the risk of a failed execution is an incredibly valuable addition to any enterprise playbook. linkedin.com/pulse/next-gen
#ConsumerProducts #BestPractices #management
5
18
8
19
There are 3 distinctly different sources of #ROI attainable through #DigitalTransformation, each with its own accountability dynamics and metrics. They do not blend well as they each deliver returns in a different time horizon. linkedin.com/pulse/roi-from
8
16
To bring the power metrics into view, first determine what ends an investment in #DigitalTransformation is intended to meet. Focus should be on systems funded within cost-center budgets, and results measured in terms of near-term bottom-line impact. linkedin.com/pulse/roi-from
5
13
#DigitalTransformation can reduce costs and improve productivity, but its true impact is in changing the power of enterprise to compete successfully in an age of disruption. That means its #ROI must measured by power metrics, not just performance metrics.
8
14
#Experience (representations of reality that confer a strategic edge to the organism that can host and act upon them) is the ability to detect, attend to, learn from, and respond to signals from our environment, whether external or internal. infinitestaircasebymoore.com/2022/04/06/the
#philosophy
5
14
#Experience emerges out of cognitive processes, but it is not completely reducible to them. All complex systems share the phenomenon of higher orders of organization emerging out of lower orders. Experience is just the next level. infinitestaircasebymoore.com/2022/04/06/the
#philosophy
7
18
We human beings like to believe we are special—and we are, but not as special as we might like to think. One manifestation of our need to be exceptional is the way we privilege our #experience of #consciousness. This has led to a raft of philosophizing... infinitestaircasebymoore.com/2022/04/06/the
7
13
Our technology dependencies pose a potentially greater risk to our economic independence than our energy dependencies, in large part because we are now so oriented toward a digital services economy. linkedin.com/pulse/looming-
#megatrends #digitaltransformation #manufacturing
5
11
Regarding next-generation containment of inflation we want dramatic improvements in productivity achieved by radical innovation, most of which will be technology-enabled. This has little to do with the metaverse and everything to do with the physicalverse. linkedin.com/pulse/looming-
6
12