Power of Predicting

Predictions you should be able to make after mastering concepts from The Respect Revolution:

1. How will conflict evolve?
2. Which teams will not jell?
3. Will bureaucracy build up?
4. Which promotions will fail?
5. How will companies evolve?
6. When will R&D start to decline?
7. How will groups of people decide?
8. How will teamwork fail (or work)?
9. Which departments will dominate others?
10. What is the chance of a manager's success?
11. What is the chance of an employee's success?
12. Which tasks will get done and which will not?
13. How will people behave in everyday situations?
14. Which problems are causes and which are results?
15. What will be your next set of corporate problems?
16. Which problems can be solved, and if not, why not?
17. What direction will the outcomes of decisions take?
18. What will be the style of leadership of any individual?
19. Which people will dominate others and in what order?
20. What is the impact of the sequence of respect and trust?
21. Which companies will survive and which ones will not?
22. Who will leave your corporation, probably within the year?
23. Which problems will trigger other problems and which won't?
24. When will an organization be able to move to peak performance?
25. What complement of elements does it take to stay at the top and ensure longevity there?

You can take this predictive skill even one step further (after reading more) and explain why certain notable business authors' observations work and whether they may or may not work in your situation.

Rephrasing the initial question: How do I enable my enterprise run successfully? Then you must ask: What are the secrets of success? Or, alternatively: What are the impediments to success? Before that, however, you must answer the intervening question: What is success? Success of an enterprise--any enterprise--is having a group of people achieve amazing things, to enjoy achieving amazing things, and to enjoy each other while achieving amazing things. Last, but not least, success includes sustaining success over the long haul. For a corporation, this is not only achieving the goals before it, but it is having a good scorecard (profits), having fun coupled with low staff turnover, generating sustainable growth, and finally, gaining peer recognition as acknowledgement from the outside world. In The Respect Revolution, this is called Excellence.