Metabolism

According to Tom Peters "metabolism" is the word that expresses the
extraordinary pace of change and responsiveness required by enterprise.

In the present day economy the CEO needs to be master of metabolic
management.

Progressive Insurance Company is one of the best firms in the world. In any
industry states Tom Peters. In any industry. "We don't sell insurance"
Mr.Lewis the CEO says, "we sell speed"

In the past, "best practice" meant that a company had a strategy meeting
every couple of times a year, but we think, says eBay's Meg Whitman, we
need one ..."twice a week."

metabolism! That's the word that expresses the extraordinary pace of change
required, the extraordinary "responsiveness" on the part of the enterprise.
"The organisations we created have become tyrants." wrote Frank Lekanne
Deprez and Rene Tissen in Zero Space. " They have control holding us
fettered, creating barriers that hinder rather than help our business. The
lines that we drew on our neat organizational charts have turned into
walls, that no one can scale or penetrate, or even peer over." And those
barriers ... MUST NOT STAND... in the new world order!

Hence it is my contention that one of the CEO's top jobs is the... DIRECT
MANAGEMENT OF THE CORPORATE METABOLIC RATE. It's two things: Using
leadership by personal example. And the very best and boldest in new
technology to speed things up. And it's ... Destroying (All the) Old
Stuff... and... INVENTING ENTIRELY NEW FORMS OF ORGANIZATION!

Quoted from Tom Peters