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It requires the stakeholders to open their perspectives or framing on what they are observing, doing some routine checks or break down routines; increase organizational vigilance, reinvent business management and accelerate organizational performance.

Uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are the new normal. People should spend time to learn constantly, step back from undesired complexity or old routine to do the things, focus on things that are needed and eliminate those that are no longer required to be done. They have to be able to reinvent themselves and continue to gain fresh insight and build new capabilities.

Break the routine forces; practice critical thinking on a constant basis in order to act: In the considerably static industrial age, most people get stuck at things as usual, following orders and living in the routine. It would be good to think critically more often than ever because change becomes the new normal, information is outdated very quickly. Critical Thinking needs to combine different thinking processes, to gather a mass of information, break it apart and reconstruct it with a level of accuracy, project futuristic events, numbers, etc.

If you don't practice critical thinking, the life routine becomes "unexamined" and unnoticed, you simply lack discernment, get lost in the busyness without discovering purpose. If a generic routine implosion is enough to invoke critical thought; people become goal-driven. If they can bring what moves them into consciousness and practice it, maybe they can become more intentional in their actions.

Routine management check has its limitations: Generally speaking, bureaucracy is a system based on a hierarchy of authority and division of workforce functioning in a routine manner. Many management experts dislike the term Performance Management because traditionally it is an annual routine which focuses on the past; it is a logistic and an administrative process to do routine works such as annual performance review, with much negative implication.

Nowadays, organizations are hyper-connected and interdependent, it is important to apply holistic management to move the purpose of performance reviews away from "evaluating" the past, treating people as the human resource and a “fixed asset” to think of people as human capital to invest in, and improving business performance and maximizing its potential in the future.

It is critical to build a comprehensive transformation roadmap and do the routine checkup: Major changes in an organization can have unforeseen consequences that could negatively impact the company. Routine check becomes necessary on the journey of business transformation to ensure organizations are moving in the right direction with steadfast speed. When building the future state, make sure that you break it down into looking at the ideal future first, followed by the practical one via resource and schedule assessment.

The goal of routine check is often for breaking down the routine: take business options with pros and cons, make financial comparisons, propose mitigation approaches, etc. There is possibly a different scenario in which the identification of negative risks unearths an opportunity. This is all a matter of perspective. Constantly improve the business and see change as an opportunity while keeping a holistic overview of the business are the core messages.

We live in an era, full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity. The result is higher risks of conflict and inertia. Every opportunity has risks in it, and every risk perhaps also has opportunities in it. It requires the stakeholders to open their perspectives or framing on what they are observing, doing some routine checks or break down routines; increase organizational vigilance, reinvent business management and accelerate organizational performance.

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