Are You Throwing Away Good Ideas

Do you want to turn your business into an innovation machine where process improvements, problem-solving and bold new product ideas become the norm? Create the business context structure and focus on the long-term leadership commitment and communication activities required to execute them.

Downsizing is Akin to Amputation – It Creates Negative Side Effects

Downsizing is like an amputation, which removes part of one's body but creates side effects such as low staff morale and bad reputation.

How You View Change Is How You Do Change - Part One

In 1971, Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, shook the world. Toffler predicted that “millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future . . . many of them will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time.” Thirty-five years later, we can say that Toffler has been proven correct in this assertion. And the ‘incessant demand for change’ continues unabated while the ‘painfulness in trying to keep up’ afflicts more and more people throughout the world.

Put An End To Committees!

Committees have been the bane of management almost from the beginning of time. Like a number of other things in our world, you can’t live with ‘em, and you can’t live without ‘em, right?. Not so fast, friend. There may actually be a way to rid the business world of committees, once and for all.

Are You Still Doing it All Yourself

Delegating is necessary to empower effective teams. Good sports coaches delegate each position to players on the field. Business leaders should do the same.

Implement the Benefit of Business Change with R-pM

Conventional methods prevent business change for planned and managed benefits and return. R-pM provides the proper method for business change in the 21st century enterprise to leave 20th century change management problems behind.

Beware of the Top 20 Costly Mistakes, Even One Could Cost You Your Business

How to avoid the top 20 most common incorporation mistakes.

How to Lead Strategic Change

How do the best operational managers make the transition between the two roles of manager and leader? The answer is that they adopt new ways of thinking in advance of new ways of working. In this article we will explore four key skills that, if mastered, can help you make those first tentative steps towards the Boardroom.

Ineffective Publicity Campaign Is Only Short Term Thrill

You may have a better mousetrap, but if you do not effectively promote your mousetrap, how are your customers going to beat a path to your door?

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.

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.

A Change Dilemma – Do I learn Too much?

Change and learning are highly correlated. Think about it: We learn at school and we change. This is a gradual change. The process of learning makes that we open up and see new possibilities we previously not imagined. We continue to learn at high school or university and there we change even more. The knowledge that we have gathered becomes a powerful source with which we can select what we want.

Accounting Degree Jobs and Career Paths - What You Can Expect

If you are in the field of accounting there are typical paths that you can follow. In this article we explore some of those paths and what you can expect. You can now make an informed decision...