The recent New Yorker magazine (Feb 19 & 26) has several delightful
"opportunity-related' cartoons.
My favorite is the one on page 78.
A dejected ice-fisherman is sitting over "his" hole in the ice, waiting for
a fish to bite. Yet behind him, fish are literally jumping out of other
holes, but he doesn't notice them. He's too focused on his single
tried-and-true hole....no caption needed
[mg-ed-dv editor's note: The New Yorker is available online now
http://www.newyorker.com/ and its cartoons are available at:
http://cartoonbank.com/ This is a great place to find cartoons by typing in
keywords. Indeed to find the one that Walter is chatting up go to this site
and use the search keywords "ice fishing" and it pops right up. The urls of
the cartoons are quite long but I assume can be popped onto your syllabi
etc. for students to be taken to the New Yorker site to view them for free.
The New Yorker site does not lend itself to copying graphics for pirated
use, though.]
One picture is worth a dozen or two management concepts !!
1) managing your opportunity portfolio,
2) management points-of view,
3) opportunity strategy,
4) failure of long-term strategic planning,
5) change management
6) missed opportunities
7) managing opportunity windows
8) opportunity barriers --management mindset
9) importance of opportunity leadership
10) issues management
11) opportunity selection
12) opportunity audits etc
13) opportunities in a recession etc
14) lessons learned from failed opportunity spaces
15) difference between problems vs opportunities
16) designing new opportunity spaces
17) spotting new opportunity spaces
18) competitive intelligence
A) what else can you think of ?
B) what else does this cartoon suggest?
Source: The Opportunity Clinic (c) 2001 and the BrainSpace
Workshop --Getting it Right the Next Time-Capturing Lessons learned from
dot.com failures and casualties (c) 2001
Walter Derzko
Brain Space,
Toronto
wderzko@axxent.ca
416-588-1122
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Creator of the Opportunity Clinic (c) 1988-2001
Former Lateral Thinker-in-Residence, Univ of Toronto McLuhan Program