Before Night Falls (2000)

Get Organized to Escape Being Burned by the Hot Tin Roof of Complacency

My purpose for this article is to shake you out of your complacency, to make you to think, and to get you to act.

What if a cat landed on a hot tin roof and just stayed there? The results wouldn’t be pretty.

The same result happens when organizations become satisfied with doing what they’ve always done; they are burned on the hot tin roof of complacency, resulting in a searing obsolescence.

Consider all of those organizations that don’t exist any more than were once considered world beaters. They patted themselves on the back, repeating the same old same old, and they quickly became irrelevant. When was the last time you rode on a Concorde SST? Are you still following the Scarsdale Diet? When did you last eat at Minnie Pearl’s? Did you stay at Howard Johnson’s during your last vacation? Can you still find your George Foreman grill?

Consider all of those organizations that pretend that everything is fine . . . when anyone can see that they are in trouble. The hot tin roof of complacency will eventually burn them, too. Do you shop at Sears as much as you did 20 years ago? Do you consider GM cars and trucks when you need a new vehicle? Do you still read a daily newspaper? Do you watch the nightly news on ABC, CBS, or NBC?

How can you get off that hot tin roof of complacency? You need breakthroughs; breakthroughs you can best create by designing and delivering 2,000 percent solutions (ways of accomplishing 20 times more with the same time, resources, and effort). This article shows you what actions you need to take now to get the most benefit for your organization by hopping off the hot tin roof of complacency onto the upward rising elevator of continual breakthroughs. Here’s the list:

1. Write down where your organization is performing well in relation to your needs for tomorrow.

2. Write down where your organization needs to improve now in light of tomorrow’s potential.

3. Write down those areas where your organization has to improve in order to perform close to its future potential and set deadlines for when these changes need to occur.

4. Share what you have written with those who will have to make the changes. Give them copies of The 2,000 Percent Solution and The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook and set dates for completing plans to meet these deadlines for change.

5. Begin helping everyone in your organization learn to identify stalls (bad habits that make you complacent and retard improvements, overcome them through stallbusting and create many 2,000 percent solutions by employing the management process described in Part Two of The 2,000 Percent Solution.

6. Put measurements in place within each key activity to track the rise and fall of complacency throughout your organization.

7. Check to be sure that the dates to begin repeating the eight-step process for creating 2,000 percent solutions are being observed.

8. Reread relevant materials about how to create 2,000 percent solutions annually.

Copyright 2007 Donald W. Mitchell All Rights Reserved.

About the Author

Donald Mitchell is chairman of Mitchell and Company, a strategy and financial consulting firm in Weston, MA. He is coauthor of six books including The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution, and The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook. You can find free tips for accomplishing 20 times more by registering at:

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