Cholesterol is Like the Calibre of Staff

A good manager must learn to get rid of dysfunctional staff. In a company, the dysfunctional staff can influence the good ones. Thus, the analogy with cholesterol.

Change Management in the Public Sector; DHS

Change Management situations can occur anywhere and sometimes they create situations that are so serious that they indeed could threaten national security. For instance take an upper management change in the public sector such as within the top ranks of the computer and cyber security division of Department of Homeland Security for instance.

Change, Growth And The Life Cycle (2)

Each stage has a development task and a person should resolve this task before he can move forward to a next phase - Change is like that, you need to deal with the challenges of one stage, before you can more wholeheartedly to the next one

Do Not Depend Solely on the Doctor in the House to do the Surgery

Many business leaders are good at starting a business or maintaining one that has already been well established. However, they are not good at fixing a seriously sick business. Avoid bankruptcy by hiring the turnaround experts.

In Times Of Trouble, Do Not Become Schizophrenic But Let Your Focus Be Emphatic

Schizophrenic patients suffer split personalities, characterised by withdrawal from reality and behavioural disturbances. Management needs to have very sharp and emphatic focus rather than become schizophrenic.

A Sick Company Needs To Undergo Surgery, Resuscitation And Nursing

To ensure full recovery, remember to finish the full course of antibiotics of surgery, resuscitation and nursing by the turnaround doctor.

Human Resource Outsourcing: The Ultimate Business Solution?

For years now, many companies in and out of the United States have been practicing human resource outsourcing. Lower labor and operational costs, as well as the efficiency to which the tasks are finished are two of the primary reasons why this has become a popular business decision.

Cash is Oxygen During the Restructuring Process

Revenue is vanity, profit is reality and cash is certainty. In medical analogy, revenue is the food, profit is the water and cash is the oxygen. You cannot pay rent with profit, you can only pay your rent with hard cash. Cash talks, the rest walks.

Better Health With Less Fats - Do Better With Less

In today's competitive market, the ones that outlast and survive are those that can do more things and programs with lesser resources.

Know When to Exit, Do Not Be the ‘Living Dead’

Within the corporate world, there are the ‘living dead’, which are the sick companies that go on a wretched existence, without any hope of turnaround.

Why Change Fails

With increasing pressure in the workplace, managers are required to continuously improve productivity, grow or contract their operations, outsource or insource, new system here, manage the legacy system there, acquire and dispose. The working environment is continually changing inside organizations, and for our customers it isn’t any easier. There isn’t always a willingness to accept the reality of change inside organizations, but since it’s a reality why do we always make it as hard as possible for ourselves. The key is that although we communicate more than ever, we aren’t good at managing the people-impacts of change.

The Power of Habit

We are all creatures of habit, whether we like it or not. Even though our habits often keep us in our comfort zone instead of reaching our goals, habits per se are not necessarily bad. Without habits, we would have to make conscious decisions at every turn.

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.

Sustaining Improvement: Is It a Pipe Dream?

This short think piece, which has been co-authored by Mark Eaton and Simon Phillips, aims to help readers start to think more broadly about the improvement programmes that they are planning (or implementing) to transition or transform their organisation.