A Monster Of A Leadership Challenge: The Creature That Ate Your Career

Summary: All leaders experience fear, failure and self-doubt many times throughout their careers. The author combines the three into one creature he calls Ghidora. Ghidora is the name of the three-headed movie monster that engaged Godzilla in a titanic struggle. You're not a Godzilla, of course, but you can go a long way in defeating this beast through tips provided here.

The Three Sides of The Change Box - And The Contents of The Box

If the three sides of the box are about; the fundaments of the change, the organizational scope and the depth of the change or the impact, than there is still something missing. It is not an important part. In fact, for managing change you should not give it too much attention...

The Dynamic Power of Hope

Hope is one of the most powerful sources of energy ever known to humankind. Highly energized cultures are charged with hopefulness and optimism. It's the dynamic power that mobilizes individuals and teams to make the improbable possible. It's the mark of a leader.

Learning to Run the Lean Marathon

Organisations looking to implement change that is sustainable in the medium to long term need to have three key attributes to be successful. Based on research undertaken with dozens of businesses, this article explores the key factors that can make your improvement programme (including Lean) successful.

Moving Beyond Fear for Small Business Success

How to article for small business owners to get out of fear and move to success. For the successful small business owner, here are keys to getting out of overwhelm and taking charge of their business. This is one of the major keys to small business success.

Each Change Has Its Most Preferable Tactic

Think about the situation where your company is receiving more phone calls than it can handle, not for one day but every day for weeks, the customers and prospects are waiting minutes of valuable time. They will loose their patience. And your company is losing even more - You can solve a mathematical problem ending up with a solution. If your organization is facing a change, than the problem solving equation is more complex -And you are there in front of a decision to take

How Can You Create a Healthy Healthcare Organization? Treat It Like a Patient!

Many healthcare organizations primarily focus on the clinical side and often ignore the quality of the rest of the organization. Your site is like a human body. Maintaining and improving the health of an organization is much like maintaining the health of a human body--focus on the whole and its parts.

The Fastest Growing Company in the World Part 2 What is the S-WORD?

The Fastest Growing Company in the World Part 2 What is the S-WORD? In our last article we noted that companies like Microsoft had this S-WORD and some other companies were close or lost it over time. There is another company that has the S-WORD built on tradition. What company is it?

How to Make 5S Work - Part 1

As most employees actually want 5S, you need to involve them in the work. If you do this right you will not just get a better running operation, but also motivated employees eager to continue with the change process.

Aligning Your Company With Your Brand for Profit

If your business provides products and services to other businesses, you can achieve the benefits of a strong brand identity in customer loyalty, buying preferences, and referrals to other customers. However, the relationship with your customer is far more complex than when compared with consumer product relationships. Business to business service companies must innovate above and beyond just satisfying the client's transactional needs to create positive brand loyalty over time.

Lack of Discipline with Executive Management

We sure seem to see a sense of entitlement of the graduating classes of MBA Students. You know they just think they know everything. Having done much public speaking on the subject of business, management and marketing I was always completely under whelmed at the questions that these business students would ask me.

How to Design a Good Incentive Plan

Incentive plans should not result in arbitrary distributions of money casually decided upon by senior management. Instead, a good incentive plan must be quantified, must be a predictable result to the employee and must be directly related to measurable performance beyond the norm. This differentiates incentive plans from savings or retirement plans.

Beautiful Flower Syndrome: Differentiation May Not Always Be The Best Strategy

Most companies with a long and storied corporate history have a similarly colorful story behind their internal processes. System limitations, management fads and product introductions have shaped everything from invoice generation to marketing campaign design.