Prepared to Take Your Loss

Some planned changes in life turn out to be less promising than expected. What should you do in such a case?

Learn Your PROTOCOLS

Organisations looking to implement improvement often fail to achieve the results they are looking for - yet when you analyse the reasons why their improvement programmes (Lean, Six Sigma etc) fail, it can normally be traced back to one of nine reasons - and this article tells you how!

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.

Unlock Corporate Energy

Physicists tell us that energy cannot be created or destroyed and that all masses already have large quantities of energy stored in them. Vast amounts of energy exist in any organisation. However, the organisation's energy is dormant, waiting to be harnessed and released by the correct stimulus.

How You Impact Your Organization's Culture

Every organization - big or small - has a unique culture. The culture is defined by every member of the organization - not the executives alone. And every team member has the opportunity - really the responsibility - to challenge the organization's culture if it isn't as successful as it could be.

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...

Technology is Disruptive... And Empowering

One aspect of business that is constant is that business processes will constantly change as technology opportunities evolve. Introducing new technologies to advance business goals is usually disruptive. Understanding and acting upon inherent pitfalls in the process of introducing new technologies as discussed in this article can make the process empowering.

Casual With Receivables, You May Land Up as a Casualty

Some companies' Achilles' heels are their accounts receivables, poor credit control or weak administration of credit policy. These weaknesses can smolder the companies of their vital lifeline - cash flow causing them to asphyxiate.

Personal and Organizational Leadership

A common problem in society is improperly balancing our many different areas of life. Nor do many of us realize that one can build leadership abilities rather than needing to be born with them. So how can these things be done?

Developing and Deploying Leaders in the Right Way

Helping people realize their potential as leaders means clearing a path for them to grow, but it also means identifying what they need to work on in the current job.

Diversity At Work Place

Diversity at work place has become an essential issue for discussion in many large companies.

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.

Maintenance: A Change Opponent

There are many activities that oppose to change initiatives. Maintenance is one you probably wouldn't reckon to fit the profile, yet it is a very powerful element fighting change propositions. And possible without the intention of doing any harm.

Collective Intelligence and Collective Wisdom

Many of us learned about management from Frederick Taylor, but times have changed and people have changed. We can no longer approach management with a Taylor mindset. We live in a participative environment that requires new ways of thinking and acting.