Acquisition Binge can Cause Indigestion

Over and too rapid expansion can spell the death knell of many companies. Do not bite more than you can chew. Do not go an acquisition spree if you cannot digest.

Why Walk Before You Can Run?

Do you sometimes get frustrated that others cannot see the relevance or importance of the kind of business changes you would like to make in your operation? Maybe you had great success in a previous business, developing your team, or you've done some reading and are sold on the value of doing some work on the strategy and vision of your current business. The perspective that is missing is that businesses go through states in their development; at any given state of development, paying attention to issues beyond that state is irrelevant. It's not that the concern to introduce work on key business issues is wrong in itself, only that those issues are irrelevant to the current state of the business.

What Are You Waiting For?

How many times have you had a thought about something but then not acted on it? It might be a concern you had or a great new approach that inspired you. Take a moment or two to list a few for yourself….

Evolution of Industry – How an Industry Changes Itself

Each industry has its own rate and way of evolving. While in technology Business models can become redundant in a quarter, old companies are using tried and trusted business models for over several decades.

How Long Are You Going To Put Up With It?

These days we're meeting a lot of people with a particularly frustrating problem: their business is in a constant state of crisis. We're talking about when making the numbers always turns into a frantic sprint to the finish - and you have no real time to recover before you're in the middle of the next sprint. What can you do about this?

Habla Espanol?

How much would you pay to find your next manager or future franchisee? Companies routinely spend thousands of dollars to find applicants outside their company. Why not spend a bit of time and money to provide current employees the necessary skills? For many employees, it begins with learning the English language.

Change Management at Consulting Firms

One difficult crisis for consulting firms is to have change management in the middle of a project or with employees who are intimately involved with a client on a huge project on a serious timeline for completion. Change Management of the consulting team can be devastating for the clients project management team and yet this occurrence is not so uncommon.

Change Management in the Public Sector; DHS

Change Management situations can occur anywhere and sometimes they create situations that are so serious that they indeed could threaten national security. For instance take an upper management change in the public sector such as within the top ranks of the computer and cyber security division of Department of Homeland Security for instance.

Coaching at Work

How coaching in thw workplace can improve the bottom line

Your Propensity to Change - How Far Would You Go?

It is easy to dream about an exotic island. It takes a bit more to prepare a trip to this island and spend some time there. But the real challenge is to take your stuff and migrate to this little island. Knowing your propensity to change is knowing - in advance - how far you would go.

Leadership v Management

Change is one of the only certainties in life – it is constant. How we adapt to change will be one of the most determining factor in evaluating our successes or our failures

Know When to Exit, Do Not Be the ‘Living Dead’

Within the corporate world, there are the ‘living dead’, which are the sick companies that go on a wretched existence, without any hope of turnaround.

The Power of Habit

We are all creatures of habit, whether we like it or not. Even though our habits often keep us in our comfort zone instead of reaching our goals, habits per se are not necessarily bad. Without habits, we would have to make conscious decisions at every turn.