Inevitable Change

Once there was a time in business when you could experience a change and then return to a period of relative stability. Nowadays, changes occur constantly - one on top of another. We need to acknowledge change and realize that change is a continuous journey - a way of life rather than a one-time event that can be lived through.

Project Management Software

Project management software offers significant benefits for all those involved within the project as it helps to enhance performance, productivity and priorities of a diverse project portfolio. It serves as the lubricant to adapt project tactics to project practices.

Corporate Suicide - Getting Bigger Instead Of Better

Work on becoming better and guess what, you naturally grow bigger. But pushing for size by itself makes you fatter, not bigger, less specialized and easier to succumb to the vagaries of internal and external forces. Often you lose what made you viable in the first place. A chicken that has wings does not mean it can fly. Similarly the big companies are not necessarily the better ones.

Understanding Change Through a Simulation

Understanding and implementing change in an organization is full of obstacles and hazards. Learning about these in a traditional classroom setting requires the leaners to sit through materials often unrelated to their needs and creates further confusion and ambiquity. Learning about change through an experience can guarantee that the learning will be deeper and last longer . . . and can even be fun.

Good Organisational Structure Enhances Infrastructure

A person who has a lazy, slow-moving gait tends to look less commanding than someone who walks with a good posture that exudes confidence. Likewise, the way the company is organised can help it position for future growth.

2007 Change Management and Averting Chaos

All things in life experience change and everywhere we look everywhere we go we observe change. We see the seasons change, the weather change, our bodies change and we experience events bringing about change. We know that changes must be made in the heat of battle on the sports field during the game where new players are brought in and a transition is made for an upcoming defensive or offensive play. Change is often necessary, change is often forced and change is often the most favorable strategy to win.

Adopt the Spiritual Paradigm for Re-inspiration

If a human soul buys into an idea like a faith or religion with a passion, with total commitment, the bounds of what we are collectively capable are quite simply astounding. The last fifteen years of change, downsizing and restructuring have left many employees feeling weary and demoralized. The right way forward is to re-inspire them with the fervour like the great religions.

Become a C.O.P. in 2007-Change On Purpose

More than ever before, 2007 will demand of most companies the ability to achieve measurable results that are specific to profitability, growth, cost containment and operational effectiveness. Of course, none of this will be possible without leadership and organizational change. This challenge will become a common theme in 2007 that will go uncompromised by the potential market gymnastics that we are likely to face. Without a doubt, success in 2007 will be directly dependent upon both individual and team performance. More importantly however, is the driving force that creates both individual and team effectiveness. That driving force is leadership at every level in the organization.

No Energy Vampires Allowed

If you're like most people, it has happened to you. You were talking to someone and before you knew it, they drained the life right out of you. You looked for fang marks on your neck but they were nowhere to be found. Then you realized Energy Vampires don't have fangs. They have other means to suck your energy.

To Survive, You Need To Teach Old Dogs New tricks

The sea change that most businesses face today is increasingly becoming the norm rather than the exception. The change is driven by globalisation, technological and social dynamics. Hovering around the status quo is like a cancer stricken person waiting for his condition to get better. If you continue doing the same, things are not going to get better. There is a saying that you cannot teach old dogs new tricks. To survive in today’s competitive market, old dogs need to be taught new tricks.

Adult ADD: Business Has to Include Trust

Do you have delegation-itis? It is a control type of a fear that makes people with ADD think, How do I delegate something that I don't know how to do? How do I tell somebody what I want when I don't get it?

Teaching Employees To Lie

Sometimes management force employees to compromise their intergrity. If owners really knew what went on in their big business policies.

Change And Confusion: Time To Refocus

How to focus during periods of change and confusion.