Comments on: The highs and lows of being first and last http://www.visceralbusiness.com/the-highs-and-lows-of-being-first-and-last/ Social business design and management Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:57:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Rick Wilson DMD http://www.visceralbusiness.com/the-highs-and-lows-of-being-first-and-last/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Rick Wilson DMD Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:19:55 +0000 http://www.visceralbusiness.com/?p=380#comment-160 "our postal services began first"- yes, and Anthony Trollope was involved quite heavily in that! I mention him because he was an excellent example of a person committed to moving forward with business plans that had beneficial social effects.<br><br>It has been my experience with entities much smaller than entire nations that complacency and a feeling of "safe" leads to the result of being last that you describe so well. And yet- so often, at a certain point in the downward slide into moribund, people start to take notice and get upset with the order of things. This often reaches a Tipping Point in the entity in question, and within a relatively short time it turns itself around. (Perhaps fear is a better motivator than we'd like to admit).<br><br>Maybe this happens with nations as well. Leading people to the realization of just how upset they should be with the current state of affairs and triggering a Tipping Point that leads to action would be the tricky part... “our postal services began first”- yes, and Anthony Trollope was involved quite heavily in that! I mention him because he was an excellent example of a person committed to moving forward with business plans that had beneficial social effects.

It has been my experience with entities much smaller than entire nations that complacency and a feeling of “safe” leads to the result of being last that you describe so well. And yet- so often, at a certain point in the downward slide into moribund, people start to take notice and get upset with the order of things. This often reaches a Tipping Point in the entity in question, and within a relatively short time it turns itself around. (Perhaps fear is a better motivator than we'd like to admit).

Maybe this happens with nations as well. Leading people to the realization of just how upset they should be with the current state of affairs and triggering a Tipping Point that leads to action would be the tricky part…

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