The Big Picture of Business

Big Ideas and Strategies: 7 Steps Toward Business Success

Hank Moore

• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781683508403
• eBook ISBN:
  9781683508410
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

A creative approach to strategy development and planning for companies in today's turbulent business environment that prepares them for an unknown tomorrow.

The Big Picture of Business is the first overview book on serving communities and motivating leadership. Each year, one-third of the US Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and other high costs caused by companies that failed to take proper actions. Look no further than the cost of the current financial crisis for an example. The costs of band-aid surgery for their problems and make-good work cost business six times that of proper planning, oversight and accountability. Ninety-two percent of all problems in organizations stem from poor management decisions.

Inside The Big Picture of Business, Hank Moore takes a fresh look at change and growth by utilizing full-scope planning as a means of navigating through uncertain waters toward richer success. It is based on his trademarked approach to growing and strengthening businesses, tested by his actual work in guiding corporations over three decades. Hank reveals how to master change and ready companies to face the future.

Hank Moore is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of visionaries such as Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey and W. Edwards Deming. The Business Tree™ is his trademarked approach to growing, strengthening and evolving business, while mastering change. He advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, leadership, futurism and Big Picture issues. He has written a series of business books. This is the third book in his Legends series, paralleling pop culture, history and innovative strategies.

Chapter 1

THE SIGNIFICANCES OF 7

Seven is a very magical number and has an uncanny way of appearing in many situations.

I use the number 7 in business to symbolize both the parts of a successful company and the progressions that organizations must master to achieve optimum success. Under this model, each business must be viewed as a whole. Then, we examine the parts. Then, we comprehend the relationship of each part of each company to its other parts and to the whole.

Looking only at the parts of an organization out of context is counter-productive. Such practice by niche consultants and employees causes the organization to miss its marks and ultimately fail.

Concurrently, Branch 1 is the starting point. Each succeeding branch is a progression to #7, which constitutes long-term maximum success of the business. One must go through the progressive branches and cannot take short cuts.

The Significances of 7:

There are 7 days in the week.

One’s telephone or fax number (excluding area code) has 7 digits.

You have to hear a concept 7 times before it fully sinks in.

A child begins formal school education in one’s 7th year of life.

A child stops being a child in the 7th grade (entering adolescence).

The 7 Deadly Sins (Pride. Anger. Lust. Envy. Sloth. Covetousness. Gluttony.)

The 7 Heavenly Virtues (Faith. Hope. Charity. Fortitude. Justice. Temperance. Prudence.).

A full dinner consists of 7 courses.

Snow White knows 7 dwarves: Doc, Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy.

Seven is thought by many to be the ultimate symbol of perfection. In reality, there is no such thing as perfection. One continues to grow, achieve and amass successes. A process of Continuous Quality Improvement is recommended and more attainable. On the way to achieving goals (foundation #7), one travels through six progressions of improvement.

Researcher Howard Gardner studied what constitutes human intelligence. At the least, it constitutes a combination of varied abilities and skills. He believes there are seven intelligences: musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, linguistic, interpersonal and intrapersonal.

A 45 RPM record is 7 inches in diameter. A VHS cassette videotape is 7 inches long.

There are 7 hills of Rome: Palatine (on which the original Romulus was built), Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelin and Aventine.

There are 7 seas: the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian Ocean, North Pacific, South Pacific, Arctic Ocean and Antarctic Ocean.

The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.

There are 7 Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, The Mausoleum at Halicamassus, The Colossus of Rhodes and The Lighthouse of Alexandria.

“Hept” or “Sept” means seven. A heptagon is a figure with 7 sides.

A heptachord is a 7-stringed musical instrument.

A septennium is a period of 7 years and September used to be the seventh month in the year, but not any longer.

Among many things that come in sevens are the Seven Sisters, Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man and the Seven Levels of Hell.

Netball and water polo are both played with teams of 7 players.

In Britain, the 20p and 50p coins both have 7 sides.

Under British law, when you reach the age of 7, you can open and draw money from a National Savings Bank acc...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 The Significances of 7
• Chapter 2 MacroScope: Big Picture Perspectives of Business
• Chapter 3 Mastery of the Big Picture: Trends and Issues Affecting the Future of Business
• Chapter 4 The Business Tree
• Chapter 5 The Seven Lists: 7 Stages—Progressions to Business Success
• Chapter 6 Review of Recent Recessions and Their Affects on Business
• Chapter 7 Situations Causing the 2008-2010 Economic Downturn and 2000s Corporate Scandals
• Chapter 8 What Business Must Learn
• Chapter 9 Lessons About Business To Be Learned from the Y2K Bug
• Chapter 10 Business Lessons to Be Learned From the Enron Scandal
• Chapter 11 Business Moving Forward From the Dirty Side of the Recession
• Chapter 12 Roadblocks to Growth, Opportunities Missed
• Chapter 13 100 Key Questions for Business
• Chapter 14 Responsibilities and Stakeholders of Business and Professional Associations
• Chapter 15 People in Organizations, the Work Force
• Chapter 16 Management Styles
• Chapter 17 Bosses and Employees
• Chapter 18 Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques
• Chapter 19 The Business Leader as Community Leader
• Chapter 20 Anniversaries Honor the Past And Build Support for the Future
• Chapter 21 Branding
• Chapter 22 100 Reasons Why Good Businesses Go Bad
• Chapter 23 100 Biggest Excuses They Use
• Chapter 24 Entrepreneurs’ Guideposts to Real Business Success
• Chapter 25 The Book of Acronyms: New Ways of Looking at Familiar Words
• Chapter 26 Customer Service, Hold On to What You’ve Got
• Chapter 27 Networking
• Chapter 28 Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines
• Chapter 29 100 Ways to Master the Big Picture
• About the Author