Change is Predictable

In business and in life change is desirable and in many ways predictable. Each decade offers a combination of opportunity & challenge. As you make wise choices, you will develop new stregths, unearth new talents and really enjoy your life.

Leadership: What the Past Can Teach Us Today

When you look around the corporate landscape today, you see plenty of highly paid executives. These men and women are obviously all smart, hard working and powerful. But do they have the key leadership attributes of the greatest men and women in history?

Who Designed That?

Ask the people in your company in sales, service, and support to tell you what really bothers them the most about the way new products are launched at your company. You may be wasting huge amounts of money in poor sales performance, larger than expected service and support costs, and out of control operations or information technology infrastructure. Get sales, service, operations, and support involved up front in the product planning process and get your business back on track.

You Announced Your New Strategy - Now What?

How many times have you announced a big strategy or organization change and just when you thought it was working it becomes obvious the change didn't happen? You've got everyone in the company talking about it - but what happened? A common mistake that many leaders make is to announce the change, hear the instant positive feedback (ignore the naysayer's input) and assume that the organization will take it from there.

Critical Change

Change is critical to your success and happiness. I cringe to think what might happen in our lives if we don't allow ourselves the opportunity to make the appropriate changes. Sure, we can pretend that we don't need to change, that there is nothing wrong with our lives. Then, however, we soon forget the consequences of not taking action and making the changes we know we need to make.

The Role of Cultural Due Diligence in Business Integration Efforts

Due Diligence is a phrase that has been traditionally used to reflect the analysis activities that occur during merger and acquisition activities. Recently the due diligence process has been extended to include the evaluation of business affiliation and partnership agreements.

How to Create a Business Culture (in Seven Difficult Steps)

Many companies treat organizational culture as if it were a mysterious, organic process that can't be managed or even analyzed. This couldn't be further from the truth: any organization can decide what kind of culture they want to have, then plan how to evolve into that culture; the techniques have been around since the 1950's, but no one things to use them in the corporate world. This doesn't mean that changing a culture is easy - people and cultures are resistent to change (even beneficial change) and you have to be patient and persevering and flexible; but in the end you can create exactly the organizational culture that you are looking for.

Think Big, Start Small

Some of today's flourishing companies started in garages, bedrooms or living rooms. If you think that your small home-based business will stay that way, draw inspiration from some of these entrepreneurs and start thinking big!

Managing Change; Ten Signs of Organisational Decay

Organisations that regularly take a good hard look in the mirror at themselves tend to avoid the worst of sudden changes in fortune. They may choose to do so at their annual retreat or at an annual challenge session where the executive team complete a “what if” analysis to see if their strategies and tactics are still suitable to achieve a goal which is still appropriate. Organisations when facing the implications of a sudden change in fortune that complain about their bad luck start or continue the steady decay into irrelevance.

Keeping Older Workers is Essential and -

As you fight the battle to hold on to older workers and their knowledge, more and more companies are forgetting about helping another group of workers. What can you do to keep from losing this other important group?

When Managers Sing the Blues About Change

Generally, change management issues focus on employee groups. But what about the managers that are supposed to lead the change efforts? Recent studies show that they often dig in their heels as well. This article gives ways managers can come to understand their own resistance to change, have a greater understanding for others, and then how to move on with grace.

Change Management Disasters at Regional Management Level

One of the most important places to ensure that change management situations go correctly will be at the regional management level and with those managers who are overseeing the corporate outlets for a large area. Often when the regional manager leaves, moves to another position or trades with another regional manager we find that all the information that they know about goes with them.

Change Management at Fast Moving Tech Companies Can Mean Disaster

Change management and fast-moving high-tech companies can be devastating for the efficiency and innovative spirit of the company. All too often high-tech executives will find other work and leave the company to go work for another corporation.