Wildlife & Business Strategy - "Dominating Territory and Protecting Market Share - Lessons from Lions."
Many a presentation has been delivered using wildlife as an analogy, but none has ever approached the subject from such an important and relevant angle as this! Dominating our territory in the same way as lions protecting our markets from international competition must be priority for all South African companies. Gerhard de Lange has been involved in conservation for the past eight years and is well known to visitors Pilanesberg National Park.
In 1992, Gerhard de Lange was involved in the relocation of 19 free ranging lions to Pilanesberg National Park. Fascinated with these animals, he made it his hobby to follow them and learn more about their behaviour. This he did, day and night for four years, and the lessons he learned during this time regarding the skills, tactics and techniques used by these lions to protect their territory proved invaluable in formulating a presentation from which business could learn from these animals. Gerhard de Lange has also written a book on his experiences. The most profound lesson he learned was that the sole objective of a pride of lions is to protect their territory at all costs - an objective that all local companies should be seriously considering bearing in mind not only the influx but the onslaught of international competition into our local markets. In this spellbinding analogy, Gerhard describes how the lions relocated into the Pilanesberg National Park split and carved their own territories and the lengths the pride males had to go to protect that territories. The continuous battle that pride males have to endure with younger, more agile male lions attempting to invade their territory is not only fascinating but holds valuable lessons that all business people can learn from.
“DOMINANCE” PRESENTATION
“Nature is all about taking ownership and adhering to basic principles.”
Celebrating the 10th successful year of its existence, the motivational presentation DOMINANCE has undergone a complete make over.
Being involved in conservation for the past 20 years, Gerhard de Lange has always been committed to providing the most up to date information, lessons and topical facts to the corporate market. He is constantly searching for new material and his continuous involvement with lions, gives him a wealth of new material to share with the corporate market.
In this presentation, Gerhard will outline the factual story of how lions attain DOMINANCE over their market share through co-operating as a high performance team.
This presentation deals with the following:
D - Dominate your market share,
O - Objective and goal setting,
M - Maximizing every opportunity,
I - Intimate knowledge,
N - Necessary communication,
A - Adapting to an ever changing environment,
N - Natural cycles and strategic alliances,
C - Commitment,
E - Eliminate the competition.
Further more this presentation now also deals with:
- A close look at lion society and the basic principles of nature they adhere to, which leads to success,
- Creating a culture of truth,
- Take ownership,
- The team consists of individuals,
- Specialized contributions,
- Different roles within a high performance team,
- Strengths and weaknesses,
- Teach by setting an example,
- Planning, focus and job description,
- Know your customer and take what you need,
- No passengers,
- Principles for success,
- Myth or fact,
- Motivation,
- Principles that ensure your team the competitive edge,
- Principles for successful execution, and
- Principles that will impede performance
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