PARANOIA+PASSION+POINTS OF INFLECTION = DISRUPTIVE GROWTH

                   ORGANIZATIONS SOAR WHEN THEY FIND THEIR STRIDE

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Successful organizations discover their fortune through perseverance, paranoia & passion, leading to continuous innovation, execution excellence. They consistently stay ahead of their competition by riding the points of inflection..

There is a fortune waiting behind the door for every organization   borne with a purpose in mind                   

                                                              

Organizations have to strive to find the right key to the door to their fortune of their life time.. Master Mentors..

Look around and we find thousands of organizations struggling to survive as they are unable to make profit despite investing lot of resources and toiling hard. They are termed as ‘Busy Fools’ who work hard only to make losses or at best, no money. They are unable to serve the stakeholders, employees and the society. On the other hand, we come across incredibly successful organizations that have hit the sweet spots in their business, again and again, leading to consistent growth and prosperity.

"Only the Paranoid Survive", quoted Andrew S. Grove, one of the Intel's founders and a legendary CEO.Intel is one of the most successful and ever growing companies of our times, which rode the points of inflection consistently in its growth curve, continuously reinventing itself, to be in tune with the customers’ needs and leading the industry standards with more and more powerful processors.

In his book ‘Only the Paranoid Survive’, Andrew Grove discussed the concept of ‘Strategic Inflexion Point’ . “An inflection point occurs where the old strategic picture dissolves and gives way to the new“, he said. 

   

"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment, and you start to decline."   Andy Grove, Intel CEO.

While it is never easy to find this inflection point and most of the companies are often blind sighted by this, the best companies are forever paranoid and are continuously innovating to keep themselves  ahead of the curve.


Some of the companies that dominated the world by riding the waves created by the inflection points through innovation, determination and passion in the recent history are:

Google-  With its Search related products and services to capitalize on the rising  need for 'Information services’,

Apple – With  iPod, iPhone and the iPad to capture the mobile consumers,

Dell- Customized products to cater to the value for money conscious empowered customers,

RIM- Black Berry phones for mobile enterprise customers,

Amazon – E-commerce and Cloud computing platform  to capture the sweeping changes in the service oriented architecture space,

FaceBook, Linkedin and Twitter-  Social media platforms to enable today’s generation to express themselves,  leverage their social networks,  stay connected , share and validate experiences,

Nokia – Telecom revolution with value for money feature ridden handsets for brand conscious consumers,

Samsung- With feature rich experience phones with multimedia experience etc.

It is important to note that some of the companies are unable to keep in tune with the fast changing market landscapes and are falling by the wayside losing their market share quickly.

Nokia, Motorola, RIM, Myspace, Orkut face trying situations to keep up their market shares as they miss the inflection points again and again.

          

While Nokia led the mobile market in its early stages and RIM made big headway in the application space, both of them are seen to be missing the bus in the era of  ‘experience’ while Apple and Samsung are leading the pack. 
Apple and Samsung have been continuously unleashing cutting edge innovation to keep in tune with the multiple points of inflection occurring at smaller and smaller intervals.

Organizations which are driven by passionate promoters, filled with employees who passionately lead the organization through the many curves of growth, take advantage of the points of inflection as they keep occurring. Such organizations are filled with competent professionals with positive attitude, purposefully and passionately driven towards a common vision with high motivation, leading to exceptional results consistently.

Apple Inc, Google, Microsoft, Dell, General Electric, Facebook are some such companies in the living history led by great promoters who have demonstrated an organization wide Paranoia along with Passion, infectious across the organizations which enabled them to conquer the Points of Inflection and take their organizations through phases of disruptive growth. 
Companies like Polaroid, Xerox, Sega, Myspace, Orkut, Hindustan Motors, Kodak, Sony, Motorola are some of the numerous companies that have either lost their edge or got the soil under their feet completely washed off due to the tsunami caused by the points of inflection that occurred due to changing market places or disruptive innovations.

While there are Pots of Gold existing for thriving companies to  explore and exploit, it is imperative for the successful companies to innovate and persistently try to find the keys to unlock the doors to their fortune.