Organizational Change and How Goal Setting Can Help

Many change programs seem to meander along with no clear purpose or direction. These are the programs that usually fail. In the end, vast resources are consumed and people are left burned out and confused. Don’t let this happen to your change program. Find out how you can use the powerful technique of goal setting to help ensure that your change initiative meets success.

You're the Expert, You Fire Him!

Family businesses are always a challenge. Despite our best intentions, baser emotions often rear their ugly heads, distracting us from what's truly important. One of those emotions is entitlement. In this article, I'm sharing a story about one family and their struggle with entitlement in their business.

The New Feudal Society: How to Prosper in the Coming Age of Poverty and Privilege

Are we are entering a New Feudal Society? As an example of what is occuring in our national economy, median househould income (adjusted for inflation) topped-out in 1999 and has been declining ever since. It is now 3.8% below the 1999 peak. This is unheard of in the post World War II era. This is in addition to substantial rising benefit costs to employees. In this environment the new lords will be those people who can quickly discern, adapt to,and exploit the unpredictable movement in the turbulent flow of life

Going For Growth: Debt, Rate-of-Return and Risk

All businesses make investments in both plant and equipment, and also in their employees. Depending on the type of enterprise, some businesses will have more invested capital than others. No matter the type of business, the primary question remains the same. The question is - what is the purpose (or goal) of any business investment? The answer - the purpose of any investment is to increase the net worth of that investment. The question then becomes--how to finance it?

Organisational Change That Lasts

Attempts at improvement in most organisations do not lead to lasting change. Here's a change management process to alter all that.

When the Trip Has Finished Starts the Hard Work

Do you recognize this; you have come back from a holiday, you get back to work and the same day at five o'clock (or the next day at four) you seem to have forgotten about your holiday. The energy and fine ideas that you brought back with you are fading away once you are behind your desk.

How to Make 5S Work - Part 2

Based on my experience, the following steps are the key treads that would best guarantee the successful 5S implementation

Resistance to Change and How to Deal With It

Sometimes the best planned change initiatives meet with resistance. Opposition to change can railroad a project, leading to much wasted resources, recriminations and exhaustion for all parties. What drives resisters and how can you turn them into supporters before your program goes off the rails? Find out the ways that people resist and some tips on what you can do about it.

How To Change The Unconscious Organizational Culture

Do you know what impact your organizational culture is having on the performance of your company? Did you know that the culture is based in deeply entrenched and often hidden beliefs that individuals bring in the door with them? If you want to change this read on.

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.

How to Tell if Your Organisation is Ripe for Change

This article draws attention to various possible areas that might need change in an organisation.

Does your Business Capitalize on Trends or do Trends Cannibalize your Business?

This article describes the dangers present to companies that blindly follow the latest trends without doing any analysis upfront.

Change Management Issues in Small Service Clubs

Change management issues can be just as serious in the private nonprofit sector as they can be in corporate America. Change management is not often talked about in the nonprofit sector but I have seen firsthand how some groups slide downhill

Change Management and Competition for The Top

There are a lot of change management issues at the top of any corporation and sometimes when there are many divisions with presidents we see all of them are vying for the chairmanship or presidency of the entire multinational conglomerate corporation.

Change Management and Ego Issues

Why is the issue of change management so serious and why is the buzzword raceing through MBA business schools and business universities across the country? The reason is that a disruption or change in the management of the Corporation or company interrupts the normal flow of business decisions in the firm. Why does this happen?