- WHAT IS A MEME?
- It is like a personal value statement — “Do unto others. . .”.
- Combat-tested truisms that have competitively emerged over the years.
- They guide you towards more successful decisions.
- The smallest unit of intellectual message that can be transferred from mind to mind.
- Businesses have many types.
- Meme plex. – mega guidelines.
- Respect for and progress of the employee (see Personnel).
- Appreciation for, closeness to, and meeting the needs of the customer.
- Grow a business or perish.
- Categories:
- Strategy-planning Section One
- Management Section Two
- Marketing Section Three
- Personnel Section Four
- Operations Section Five
- Innovation Section Six
- Another example Section Seven
- They are inter-related. A firm does many of them or few, not, for example, about 25% across the board.
- Meme plex. – mega guidelines.
- It is like a personal value statement — “Do unto others. . .”.
- THE BENEFITS OF WRITTEN, SPOKEN, UNDERSTOOD AND PRACTICED MEMES.
- There is one vocabulary and working value system; this contributes to the laser beam effect.
- Good and mutually consistent decisions are made by many employees without management tradeoffs.
- Superior performance results from practicing things formally and consistently.
- Informal and inconsistent practices waste time and are done reactively.
- Formal, consistent practices create habits and anticipate things proactively.
- New people can be grown much faster with a common articulated-meme culture.
- A “PRACTICING STRATEGY FOR” F.G.M.M’s.
- Memorize all the FGMM’s; use shorthand phrases or symbols when possible to make it easy to remember (sticky).
- Rate yourself, your department, or your company on the current practice of all FGMM’s on a 0 – 10 basis.
- Pick one to three memes that you or your area could focus on, discuss and consciously do better – improve habits.
- Try to relate every decision/action, especially difficult ones, to some meme and see what direction it suggests.
- Many of the FGMM’s can be modified to apply to your personally or your own family. Try doing that and re-doing the steps above.
- CONCLUSIONS.
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
- Meme can replace supervision and encourage a person to feel responsible, trusted and capable beyond their normal experience base.
- Most wisdom that you see in people is learned first through memes from good teachers and later appreciated.
- Memes (like genes) can mutate. Constantly test and modify them against every changing conditions.