Question #4:   Your book talks about geopolitical factors that affect not only business but lifestyles. What is causing this to happen?

This series is about leadership in a world filled with challenges and revolutionary changes. Conversations will focus on the second book in the Global Business series released by Oxford University Press, Global Business in the Age of Transformation. J.R. Klein and Mahesh Joshi authored this book to examine the complexities and pressures of rapid change and present simple solutions that can help stay relevant even as the ground continues to shift.

Question #3:   In your book you talk about the disruptive role of technology is far-reaching. What do you mean by that?

This series is about leadership in a world filled with challenges and revolutionary changes. Conversations will focus on the second book in the Global Business series released by Oxford University Press, Global Business in the Age of Transformation. J.R. Klein and Mahesh Joshi authored this book to examine the complexities and pressures of rapid change and present simple solutions that can help stay relevant even as the ground continues to shift.

This series is about leadership in a world filled with challenges and revolutionary changes. Conversations will focus on the second book in the Global Business series released by Oxford University Press, Global Business in the Age of Transformation.  J.R. Klein and Mahesh Joshi authored this book to examine the complexities and pressures of rapid change and present simple solutions that can help stay relevant even as the ground continues to shift. 

Question #1: 

Everyone seems to know a successful business must be relevant to customers and pay attention to changing customer needs. The theory is incredibly easy, but the execution is hard. What are some barriers, gravitational forces that keep thinking stuck in old ways of doing things?

#13 Proactive Toward Change

Mahesh Joshi and JR Klein are Co-Authors of the Global Business Book Series including Global Business (2018), Global Business in the Age of Transportation (2021) and several more books in the works.

A primary driver of being successful in a changing world is to pay attention to where the world is going. The quest to stay relevant and figuring out what will happen is not often that hard. A review of common culture over the past decades presents various projections of the “what if we could” views of the technology space was pretty clear. In movies like 2001 Space Odyssey made in 1968, there were iPad type devices and flying spaceplanes that resemble the cutting edge of Virgin Galactica. (Kubrick, 1968)   There was a good deal of accuracy about the “what” but the "when" was wrong.

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#12 Pride, Pockets, and Paralysis

Mahesh Joshi and JR Klein are Co-Authors of the Global Business Book Series including Global Business (2018), Global Business in the Age of Transportation (2021) and several more books in the works.

Another reason that big companies find it hard to change is that culturally their experience is more apt to fall into the analysis paralysis check. The ability to identify the perfect strategy or decision or profit model can be paralyzing. The protracted search for the best usually facilitates missing the good. These are agonizing choices that need to be made. Most times, however, decisions error on the side of caution and the chance to change is lost.

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#11 Company DNA

Mahesh Joshi and JR Klein are Co-Authors of the Global Business Book Series including Global Business (2018), Global Business in the Age of Transportation (2021) and several more books in the works.

The golden handcuff was only a part of the change barrier story with the next part being of equal importance. When companies think about making major market and organizational shifts they need to know what the businesses DNA looks like. What does corporate culture look like and what skills, capacities, and people make up the company’s competencies? What are the strengths and weaknesses? 

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#10 The Golden Handcuffs  

Mahesh Joshi and JR Klein are Co-Authors of the Global Business Book Series including Global Business (2018), Global Business in the Age of Transportation (2021) and several more books in the works.  

Wall Street and market capital also have something to do with change and its acceptance barriers as well. When Kodak was still king of the still pictures they were incredibly profitable and came in number one and number two in global brand tracking studies. Kodak owned pictures. There is an assumption that they did not see the fact that photography was changing and picture film would no longer be necessary. The obvious assumption is that they did not see the train coming down the track.    

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#9 So What Happened? Mahesh Joshi and JR Klein are Co-Authors of the Global Business Book Series including Global Business (2018), Global Business in the Age of Transportation (2021) and several more books in the works.  The first thing is related to why it is so hard for some to get out of bed in the morning or keep the old chair in the living room. People like what they know and do what is comfortable. The second change blindness is complacency. The approach of many companies is like driving an automobile with automatic rather than a manual transmission. Many companies today have a cruise control attitude which says everything is good and let's keep on doing what has worked. The autopilot seems to be working. The combination of comfortable and cruise control puts most companies in a deep rut when it comes time for a necessary change.    You can order Global Business in the Age of Transformation from Amazon at: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B09DQCQ36T&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_Y73D1FCF7SRHPJRAMK2R&tag=everythingaround-20OR wherever books are sold.  If you want to reach out to either JR Klein or Mahesh Joshi feel free to visit jrglobal.co for contact details or via YouTube or Facebook.

#8 Change Changes Changing

 Mahesh Joshi and JR Klein are Co-Authors of the Global Business Book Series including Global Business (2018), Global Business in the Age of Transportation (2021) and several more books in the works.  The discussions of the quantum speed of change in lifestyle, business, and environment are widespread. New technological innovations and business models are threatening existing legacy business players. These businesses were strong and there was little thought that anything could challenge them. However, as with most change those who do not pay attention pay the price. If vigilance is not a common trait and no one is watching where the disruption is coming from the ramifications are inevitable.   

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#7 Big Leadership Challenge  Mahesh Joshi and JR Klein are Co-Authors of the Global Business Book Series including Global Business (2018), Global Business in the Age of Transportation (2021) and several more books in the works.  With cognitive rebooted leadership how can the system be repaired?    It is the leadership “character” shift that has brought about a declining lifestyle, public unrest, frustration driven violence, and climate change. This shift has triggered a fundamental breakdown of trust. What has happened in the world of politics, the world of media, and the world of corporate institutions is that corporate leadership action has eroded trust. Leadership has lost its direction and eliminated the society from its performance equation. As a result members of the society don't trust the institutions. They don't trust the agendas of the institutions and they don't trust the leaders.   You can order Global Business in the Age of Transformation from Amazon at: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B09DQCQ36T&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_Y73D1FCF7SRHPJRAMK2R&tag=everythingaround-20OR wherever books are sold.  If you want to reach out to either JR Klein or Mahesh Joshi feel free to visit jrglobal.co for contact details or via YouTube or Facebook.