Three Simple Rules Everywhere

Ali Anani

I dedicate this presentation to a great and talented friend.I hope that this little difference would makes big positive difference in his life.I dedicate it to Abhishek Shah

Generality of the Three Simple Rules

Three Rules of Management

Three Rules of Flocking Birds

Three Rules of Singing Sand

Three Rules IT systems

Three Rules of Change

Three Rules Selling

Three Rules Marketing

Three Rules LeadershipThree Rules

of Finance

The Commonality of the Three Rule

Amazingly, the simplicity of three rules may lead to profound complexity

Singing Sand

A single grain of sand does not sing. However; a pile of sand may sing if three simple rules are adhered to.No physical property of an individual sand grain would lead one to think that a large collection of them will transmit sound.This is an emergent properly that was not planned.I wrote about this topic in an earlier presentation

Singing Sand- 2Sand has to abide by three rules to generate sound from sand. These rules are:

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The sand grains have to be round and between 0.1 and 0.5 mm in diameter.

The sand has to contain silica

The sand needs to be at a certain humidity

And Great Patterns

sound was caused by a synchronization of grains that caused the surface of the falling sand to behave like the cone of a speakerSelf-organizing sand that is sound-generating simply because it abides by simple rules.

Emergent Properties

For a phenomenon to be termed emergent it should unpredictable from a lower level description. At the very lowest level, the phenomenon usually does not exist at all or exists only in trace amounts: it is irreducible

Fish and Flying Birds

The three simple rules are extensible to flying birds and school of fishThe rules are separate, align and keep cohesion

Businesses and Management Obey the Three Rules

It seems the three rule concept is extensible to businesses and management systems as well.See next slides

IT Simple Rules

Keep it small.Keep it separate.Keep it synergistic

(3 S)

3 C's of Change

Capabilities

CommitmentClarification

Change

Will the interaction of the three rules lead to singing change and cultures?

Marketing Three Simple Rules

Rule #1 – Capture customer data from every source, integrate it, and keep it as current as possible.

Rule #2 – Detect timely, relevant opportunities and create properly targeted communications that add value.

Rule #3 – Prioritize communications to ensure that you contact people with the proper frequency – and avoid overloading and alienating them.

Three Simple Rules of Leadership

1. Take care of your assistants

2. Be a team player

3. Execute leader’s purpose

Three Simple Rules of Management

1. Establish clear goals

2. Establish clear rewards

3. Establish clear consequences

The Three C’s of Management

Management = Communication x Coordination x Conscientiousness

Three Simple Rules of Financial Management

1. Use the power of compound interest, and receive interest on interest

2. The sooner you start the more time compounding has to work

3. Make regular, disciplined payments

Three Simple Rules of Selling

Rule #1: It’s not about you – it’s always about them

Rule #2: No one really cares what you do

Rule #3: Serve, don’t sell

Singing Organizations

The generation of three simple rules for each activity of your organization may create a singing organization that sings its success

There is no crisis, but…

It is with great honor that I add the contribution from Branko Žunec

Ali, I'm honored that you find it so valuable to include in your presentation. Thank you very much and I hope on many more valuable discussions. It is important that people in business understand that there is no crisis it is new way of doing business today and in the future. In order to adapt and build a great organization we have to keep things simple and try to make be a little better every day in what we do...it makes a huge difference in long term.Branko Žunec

The Three Rules

(1) value before price; (2) revenue before costs; (3) people before processes

3 Simple Rules for Knowledge Sharing

These can be summarized briefly as;1. Make it Safe2. Make it Count3. Make it Social