Accept What Can't Be Changed and Change What Can Be

Accepting responsibility for choices starts with understanding where our choices lie. We may not choose what happens to us, but we do choose how to respond – or not.

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.

Differences Between Products And Services

What are some of the main differences between products and services? And when are these differences relevant?

DOD Contractor Dumping Practices and Tactics

There are anti-dumping laws in the United States but still it occurs, as one company enters a new market they will lower prices in a price war prone position and take it in the sorts just to get their butts in the door. Where is the most common market for this to occur?

The People Factor: Collaborative Decision-Making

We all generally get the 'doing' just fine: we know how to introduce strategic initiatives, how to begin the implementation process, how to offer our people 'change management' programs so the new systems (or whatever) are up on time and do what they are supposed to do. But how do we help our people adjust, and do a competent job, when we are asking them to simultaneously work with new people, new technology, new vocabularies, new outcomes, and new job descriptions – and aren't teaching them how to juggle all of that while maintaining their daily job requirements?

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

A Successful Organizational Marriage: Cultural Integration is the Secret to a Successful M&A

M&A activities bring about significant change involving employees, organizational entities, systems, shareholders, customers, and many other stakeholders. Companies that want to expand, strive to acquire businesses that enhance their product portfolio and secure additional employees with specialized skills. However, many companies enter into M&A activity without recognizing the impact on the organization and the overall impact on the human element within the two merging companies. M&A activities that are improperly managed can result in lost revenue, customer dissatisfaction, and employee attrition.

Ten Signs That It is Time to Sell the Family Business

A Business Owner's Toughest Decision is deciding to sell. In many cases he ignores some market dynamics that fortell difficult times ahead. Those difficult times often result in a significant drop in the value of the business. This article will help you identify some of those signs.

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.

Corporate Gift Ideas: What to do when Birthdays at Work Suck!

7 Habits of Highly Effective Birthday Rebels. Navigating the Birthday at Work minefield

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's Your Head?

Right now, as you're reading this article, notice something. Do you have a headache? No? Did you notice that you didn't have a headache until I asked that question? Stop for a minute and appreciate the fact that you don't have a headache. Celebrate that your head feels good. Do you find that a little goofy? Yet it's usually only when our head hurts that we wish we'd remember what it feels like not to have a headache. Only when we feel lousy can we appreciate what it's like to feel well. That's not a lot different than the way we view our companies or organizations - or really, our lives. We don't really think much about the things that are going well until something happens to throw us off our game. At that point we need a quick fix so we can get back to taking the health of our bodies or our organizations for granted.

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.

Adapting to Change is Equally Important as Adopting Change

Change isn’t just a matter of doing things differently. It has to do with the trust the employees have in the management to know that the alteration will be an improvement.

A Certain Uncertainty

These are uncertain times we live in; they always are. Embrace uncertainty and learn to lead yourself and others to certain success.