In November 2023, Ryan Badcock organised a meal in Manchester to introduce Jon Hill and Chris Cooper. Ryan believed it would a great opportunity for 3 people with very different backgrounds to network and share their experiences of delivering significant performance improvement.
During the meal they came to realise that although they had very different backgrounds, their independent transformation successes could be distilled into a shared vision and playbook.
They realised that their independent successes have common themes...
- Transformation can not delegated to a separate team.
- The quality, cost, speed, planet compromise is a myth.
- Purpose and customer value is all that matters and remove everything that does not support this.
- Leaders have to teach people how to see the "Dark matter".
- Core truths and principles are being watered down and complicated in a plethora of different methodologies.
- Work is changing, technology is enabling things to change quicker.
- Economies of flow beat economies of scale.
- Remove waste, don't pay to automate it.
After years of a few organisations consistently outperforming their peers, why have these learnings not been applied successfully in the majority? Particularly as the human race is now consuming more of the planet's resources than ever before.
They all have very different backgrounds and have all faced significant challenges that they have had to overcome. What brought them together was the realisation that they each have parts of the answer to solve this global problem.
