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This week we focus on external teamwork.
I’ll introduce you to a model for running your business based on an ecosystem of internal and external teamwork.
If you get this cultural and structural idea right, it can increase sustainable profit, client wins, and reduce inefficiencies and bottlenecks.
If you get it wrong, it often leads to a strategic and growth plateau.
Oneness – an operating system for how you run your business
Think about the way your employees interact internally and the way they interact with your external stakeholders – your partners, suppliers, your clients, your customers.
Does it augment and support your business model? Does the level of openness in your internal systems and culture reflect the amount of openness and teamwork you want to have with your external stakeholders?
An Interconnected “Open Source” World
The world is moving towards being open source and globally interconnected powered by the internet. Critique and praise can go instantly viral. Businesses start and go out of business on a daily basis. Sales is no longer information asymmetry but about being transparent and generous.
Old Way
- Individual KPIs
- Internal competition for resources and jobs
- Single dominant product or brand
- Play it safe – focus on keeping job and doing your job role
- Efficiency matters most
- Department islands
- Navigating internal structure the hardest part of the job
- Little external change
- Office based
New Way
- Shared goals
- Psychological safety
- Project based environment
- Creativity driven
- External focus
- Adaptive and speed to market
- Revenue ecosystem – multiple sources of income
- Remote and flexible workforce
- Authenticity – same person at home and at work
Successful organisation create an ecosystem of mutual interest with external stakeholders so their profitability becomes more sustainable.
Take Apple for example. In some cases collaborates with its competitors – Microsoft and Google to deliver services. It ha content partnerships with those to create on its platform and creates communities of developers who build apps for its devices, tools and networks.
Where are your disconnects in your Ecosystem?
Have you upgraded your teamwork, the way your organisation works externally and internally so that you work as a sustainable ecosystem? So you are more competitive and you leverage the interconnectivity across your team, employees, your staff, your suppliers and partners.
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Hope that’s been useful for you. If you want to talk about your team. Send me a message or leave me a comment down below.
Talk to you soon.
When you are ready…. let’s work out if we are a good fit.
If you are a 50 person plus business, have budget to develop your organisation, and you have challenges with teamwork in your top 3 levels of leaders than we may be a good fit to work together. For more information, click below to watch a short video on my teamwork model and read testimonials from previous clients.
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