Vision-based Growth Strategies
Traditional approaches to growth strategies look to the past to predict the future. Elyxer Consulting makes use of a “future backwards” approach:
1. Imagine
Looking at powerful industry and customer trends that hold transformational potential. These trends in mind, we imagine and come to consensus on what the future might look like.
2. Design
Next, we design the blueprint. The future industry landscape in mind, what is our shared vision for the company’s future state? What does our successful future business look like - and what changes are required to get there?
3. Execute
Now that we know where we are going, we can set about implementing realistic “stepping stone” investments and initiatives to turn our shared vision into an achievable reality.
A FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
The old way of doing business was very much an “every man and woman for themselves” approach – an ego-driven environment, plagued by toxicity and burn-out. But the lone wolf mindset has never really worked for anyone - and the greatest minds in business know this. They are the visionaries who have allowed themselves to be guided and supported, and to draw inspiration from the words and actions of others. To be motivated, rather than intimidated. They have driven the slow, but sure shift toward better personal and workplace balance and collaboration. And with this, innovation is at an all-time high.
Our Inspiration
Unless one is feeling inspired, you cannot hope to inspire change, creativity or growth in others. The book excerpt below encapsulates what keeps us inspired.
“Life, in all its evolutionary wisdom, manages ecosystems of unfathomable beauty, ever evolving toward more wholeness, complexity, and consciousness. Change in nature happens everywhere, all the time, in a self-organizing urge that comes from every cell and every organism, with no need for central command and control to give orders or pull the levers. The metaphor opens up new horizons. Imagine what organizations would be like if we stopped designing them like soulless, clunky machines. What could organizations achieve, and what would work feel like, if we treated them like living beings, if we let them be fueled by the evolutionary power of life itself?”
Source: Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frédéric Laloux
