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When To Pivot

2025/3/10
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@Shankar Vedantam : 本节目探讨了在生活中何时坚持现状,何时顺应变化,并以商业案例研究为例,解释了如何识别和利用转折点。通过可口可乐新可乐的失败案例,说明了盲目改变可能带来的灾难性后果。 同时,节目也探讨了吉列公司错失Dollar Shave Club带来的订阅模式和新型营销方式的转折点,以及柯达公司因固守传统打印业务而错失数字化浪潮的案例。这些案例说明了企业在面对变化时,需要及时调整战略,才能保持竞争力。 节目还分析了Blockbuster公司过早尝试流媒体业务而失败的案例,以及宝洁公司通过将净水产品定位为慈善项目,成功地扭转了其市场表现的案例。这些案例说明了把握转折点的时机至关重要,既不能过早也不能过晚。 @Rita McGrath : 我对转折点的定义是:一些事情改变了关于你业务规则的真相,通常是十倍或更多。例如,十倍速度、十倍成本、十倍便利性等等。企业往往因为固守旧模式、时机把握不当、以及对变化的抵制而错失转折点。 我将转折点分为四个阶段:炒作、幻灭、启蒙和常规化。企业需要建立预警信号模型,通过观察市场变化和员工行为等指标来识别转折点的临近。此外,企业需要学会持续适应和果断放弃,才能成功地应对转折点。 在个人生活中,识别和利用转折点也至关重要。我们需要关注自身价值观,并根据自身情况做出选择。持续学习和提升技能,保持对新事物的开放态度,才能在个人生活中取得成功。

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When should you stay the course in life, and when should you shift with changing tides? This week, we bring you case studies from the world of business to explore the science of inflection points — changes that dramatically transform the course of events. Researcher Rita McGrath of Columbia University explains why we fail to see impending moments of upheaval, and what we can do to be more adept at spotting them.

What you'll learn from this week's episode:

  • The definition of an inflection point, and how to identify it in your own professional or personal life.
  • The four stages of inflection points, and how to take advantage of them.
  • The warning signs that an inflection point might be passing you by.

 

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