The Seven Dimensions of any Business

Larry Wilson

Founder Pecos River Learning Center

With an engineering degree and two MBA's, I "get" where executives are when it comes to their businesses.

Let's go a bit deeper than Peter Drucker's original six (6) functions of management: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Controlling and Reporting.

IN ANY HIGH RATE OF CHANGE ENVIRONMENT THE QUESTIONS YOU ARE WILLING TO ASK LEAD TO BETTER ANSWERS.  Your least leverage is simply reacting to events.

Larry Wilson is one of the most amazing people I never met. His book "Changing the Game" is mandatory reading for my students of all ages.

Again drawing from complex systems study I find executives and managers don't realize there are seven (7) fundamental dimensions to any game; even the game of business.  These dimensions apply to so many things: growing a business, securing a business, developing employees, proper use of technology, the list is as long as one chooses to make it.

Understanding these seven (7) dimensions opens new opportunity for growth.

THINK ABOUT THESE SEVEN (7) . . . making the following substitutions:
GAME = YOUR BUSINESS; PLAYERS = YOUR EMPLOYEES

1) PURPOSE IN PLAYING THE GAME

2) INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO PLAYERS

3) PERMISSABLE ACTIONS OF THE PLAYERS

4) CRITERIA FOR PROGRESS IN THE GAME AND BY THE PLAYERS

5) IMPACT OF RANDOM EVENTS ON THE GAME

6) DISTRIBUTION OF THE REWARDS TO THE PLAYERS

7) CRITERIA FOR TERMINATING THE PLAYERS OR THE GAME