Driving In Your Sleep

My Dad will turn 90 years old on May 5th this year. He gave up driving his car when he was about 83 I think. The deciding factor was the day that he drove into town to get his grocery shopping and then returned home on the bus. When he looked in the garage later that day and there was no car inside he thought it had been stolen. I remember laughing when he told me the story but he commented that it wasn’t funny because it was the second time he’d done it. It reminded me of the story of the man who said “ I want to die like my father, peacefully in my sleep........ unlike his passengers who were screaming in terror”. Thankfully my Dad had the good sense to realize that maybe now was the time to change before something more serious happened and he now makes full use of his senior citizen bus pass.

I think my Dad sets a really good example to us all. How many organizations have made the mistake of not recognizing the need to change? Not to improve is fatal. Organizations that fail to respond to changes in the marketplace become stuck in a rut of product-focused production with an ever shrinking market and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Ever conscious of practicing what we preach we are introducing our new, improved edition of Measurable Management next week in Las Vegas at our licensee workshop. We feel that this new version of the program moves it even further ahead of the competition and provides other organizations with the opportunity to respond to the changes in their own markets and engage their customers and their employees more effectively. The Spanish language version of the new edition will be available in the next few weeks.

It’s always been the best, but it just got even better!