What are 21st century business principles? In a series of posts to follow I will be attempting to answer this question, as well as, highlighting what I believe are the five most important 21st century business principles that an individual or business can adopt. I have recently been reflecting (an underutilized activity) on what has caught my attention over the past year or so while also taking note of the specific ideas, writings, people, etc. that I have become most interested in. What I found was, despite how different some of these interests happen to be from one another, they all have one thing in common — they are followers/promoters of 21st century business principles.
We are living in a transformative time that some are comparing to the advent of Gutenberg’s printing press or the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It has certainly been a challenge for many of us, personally and professionally, to adapt in this ever-changing world we now live in. The way I’ve come to see it at this point is, to quote Andy Dufresne, one can either “Get busy living or get busy dying“. The five interests of mine that I have decided to focus on in this series are pretty diverse — a singer/songwriter, a company, a book, an entire industry and a blogger/thinker — and, as you will see, they have all clearly chosen to get busy living.
I believe that each one of them owes their success to the fact that they have denounced the old ways of doing business and have welcomed this new world that they are playing a part in building. You will see that some are actively defining and promoting these 21st century business principles while others seem to be simply following their passion. It is due to individuals and businesses such as these that I have been able to realize that it is actually a very exciting time to be living in — one ripe with opportunity. With that said, I am going to leave you with the principles I will be exploring individually over my next five posts:
- Originality
- Openness
- Pull
- Passion
- Meaning
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