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Today’s Entrepreneurial Tsunami Drives Innovation, Reshapes Markets, Creates Industries, Drives Progress
Emerging companies creating new markets and businesses; traditional companies holding on to survive; today’s business thinking challenged at all levels; and most struggling to understand what is happening and where we are heading.
Worm on a Chopstick (“Chopstick”) offers perspectives and strategies for understanding and addressing today’s Entrepreneurial Age challenges and opportunities impacting both emerging and traditional companies in all market sectors. Chopstick is written in an entertaining, anecdotal, highly readable and non-technical style.
How does management respond to today’s explosive, rocket-fuel driven Entrepreneurial Age disruptions morphing companies, technologies, markets, government policies and our daily lives?
These changes dramatically impact both emerging and traditional companies in all market sectors. Traditional companies must now “think entrepreneurially” to survive and grow, addressing today’s market challenges and opportunities. But entrepreneurial companies must also adapt. To survive and grow,move from start-up to a sustainable business demands thinking like ‘traditional’ management. And like an unexpected critter on a chopstick, today’s tsunami-like market and technology changes often occur when you are least prepared.
Impact of New Technology: “Digital Pills”
Look at one example, “digital pills” which have an embedded microchip. You swallow the “digital pill,” it captures data as it transverses your body, sends back readings to a small device on your arm, links wirelessly links to a mobile phone, sends data to medical staff. Your stomach’s gastric juices energize the batteries. Think about the changes here. New services emerge to track when and if you took your pills and your body’s reaction, today and tomorrow. Pharmaceutical firms have new tools to understand how and whether new drugs work. Medical staff has new tools to track patients’ health. “This is your stomach talking…” technology may spawn new markets, new companies, new related technologies.
But if you are in the pharmaceutical business now, is this a positive development? Maybe. This “disruptive technology”, may change your traditional, finely tuned, structured, highly profitable “pill” business. Understanding how to assess “disruptive” developments, create and assess responsive strategies and succeed is what separates leading companies from laggards. And understanding how these “disruptive” developments create new sustainable emerging entrepreneurial business opportunities also demands new thinking, going well beyond basic “start your own business” planning. And addressing these issues, which impact both emerging and established, traditional companies worldwide in all sectors, is the mission of Worm on a Chopstick.
The Author
The author serves as CEO of Sante Corporation, an early stage, leading edge personal health care management company that is developing a new vision to improve today’s health care system. The author is well equipped to address the topic of entrepreneurial strategy management with four decades experience serving as public and private company CEO; entrepreneur, founder and former Director of the Entrepreneurial Step-Up Program at George Mason University; Adjunct Professor in the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (“CFEE”) in the School of Business at George Washington University; mentor to senior executives worldwide.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we achieve it.
-Michaelangelo
About
A seasoned entrepreneur, global management executive. educator, management consultant, well-known in the global information industry, the author has conducted hundreds of presentations worldwide and published numerous articles. Worm On A Chopstick (“Chopstick”) draws upon four decades of global experiences to share perspectives and new directions to help readers understand today’s changing business landscape.
