• CHOOSING PRIORITIES TO FOCUS ON DAY-BY-DAY, HOUR-BY-HOUR, IS TOUGH – even impossible for people who are so motivated by immediate task completion of any kind that they opt to pursue what seems the most achievable task even if not in their best interest (e.g. paying off small debts ahead of larger ones with higher interest rates). Other people accumulate so many perceived priorities that their attention and resources are simply spread too thinly across all. Research has found that in typical companies, only about half its leaders can even agree on what strategic priorities are. Effective prioritization requires selecting, communicating and having explicit rules for deprioritizing or even cancelling initiatives when time commitments or team attrition rates exceed a certain threshold. Strategic Advisory services are a DCG top priority; we can help.
• MUCH OF WHAT’S LED TO THE SHAMEFUL MESS OF MANAGEMENT IN LARGE CITIES is epitomized by policies in Los Angeles which enable conditions that make consistent performance at scale functionally impossible. The city employs over 50,000 personnel spread across 44 departments, “independently operating with unaligned priorities, no measurable strategic objectives governing resource allocation, and authority divided in ways that produce systematic stalemate.” While an average of one-in-six jobs remain unfilled due to a hiring process which can take over six months, nearly 16% of General Fund resources are consumed by structural conditions – like delayed permits, deferred maintenance, mandatory overtime productivity – rather than delivered as services, and consuming an estimated $1.3 billion of the city’s $14B general fund. https://diagnostic.criticalfactors.io/los-angeles
• THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, WILL BE OVERWHELMING. Likely AI scenarios according to top brains suggest that: (1) The price of intelligence will have collapsed faster than anything in the history of technology — possibly 90%; (2) Physical work will be trending toward ‘free,’ toppling the cost of building, manufacturing and caregiving; (3) Waymo rideshare will run about 40 cents a mile and Tesla’s Cyber-cab closer to 20 cents – cuts which make owning a depreciating car parked 95% of the day look absurd; (4) The premium on living near a workplace will disappear and residential real estate prices will likely topple when reading/ sleeping/ working along a whole commute is pennies; (5) As the cost of physical labor and cognition both trend toward zero (now referred to as ‘Organizational Singularity’) and work is optional, where do meaning and dignity come from? REALITY IS THAT “RADICAL TRANSPARENCY IS COMING. A future where you an know anything, anytime, anywhere. A future where no one can hide. We are wrapping the planet in a ‘Sensor Ecosystem’ – a living, multi-layered sensing system that runs from the cameras in your home, to the phone in your pocket, to autonomous cars and humanoid robots on the ground, to drones and flying cars in the air, all the way up to a constellation of satellites imaging every square meter on the Earth every single day. By 2030, there will be roughly 40 billion connected devices, each packing multiple sensors, generating a flood of data that AI can finally read. When everything becomes visible, it gets very hard for anyone to hide, and that changes how humans behave.” [PETER DIAMANDIS]
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK: Effective this month, NEW CALIFORNIA LAWS now: (1) Limit or prohibit use of smartphones by students on school campuses, and require all public & charter school campuses to have a non-gendered restroom; (2) Mandate streaming platforms to prohibit digital ads at volume louder than the actual TV, movie, or video content; (3) Require restaurants with 20 chains to disclose common food allergens – milk, eggs, nuts, wheat, fish, soybeans & sesame; (4) Standardize ‘use or freeze by’ food labeling expiration dates for high-risk items, along with banning ‘sell by’ dates; (5) Override local regulations for single-family zones, allowing multi-family residential development within a half-mile of public transit lines.
• “The DESCENT OF BRITAIN’S CULTURAL DISINTEGRATION, now in everyday news, stands as a warning to all Western nations to guard their societies against their current influx of hostile foreigners. With governments and police complicit in crimes because they’ve fostered mass immigration from incompatible cultures and stoked predation on white people by softening or ignoring laws for fear of being called ‘racist.’ The West is quite possibly headed for a civil war, with regular armies clashing on battlefields (much like Northern Ireland’s 30-year battle between indigenous Catholics versus migrant Protestants – an unfolding disaster brought to the West by Leaders incapable of acknowledging the superiority of their own culture over others and protecting it.” [WASHINGTON EXAMINER]
• OPTIMAL COMPANY MANAGEMENT demands coordinated strategic direction, authority structure, execution alignment and financial signaling forecasts, versus typical reactionary decision-making. Without alignment of these critical factors, the efficiency and effectiveness of any business endeavor is always impeded. DCG partners with Critical Factors Management System [https://www.criticalfactors.io/] to provide the control mechanism for implementing AI without the expense or risk of improperly letting algorithms drive the engine without adhering to the owner’s designated goals, maps and controls! Call for courtesy consult.