Managing Change: The Three Laws for Successful Transition

Today’s organizations are struggling with the fast pace of change. In spite of the massive amount of words that have been written on managing change, many organizations still seem to be going backwards. There are some simple yet powerful lessons to be learned from thought leaders of the past. See how you can apply one such lesson to kick-start your current change program.

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.

Why Dinosaurs & Businesses Die Off

Why do businesses die? What similarities are there between dinosaurs and businesses becoming extinct? Find out in this article.

The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 Set New Standards in Trucking Industry

The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 set new standards in trucking industry. Before the legislation, licenses had only 18,000 truckers and by 1990, this number increased to 45,500. First only a half of carriers had a right to move freight freely within 48 states and in 1990 – 20,000.

What Exactly Is Project Management?

Projects comprise a considerable percentage of typical business acitivity. Completing projects in a timely and cost efficient manner makes good business sense. The project manager is the key facilitator of project success.

Change Management Issues in the Car Wash Business

We hear a lot about the new buzzword; change management all throughout the trade journals in almost every industry and every industry sector in corporate America. Seldom do we realize that change management issues do also affect smaller businesses.

Change Management Issues in Non-Profit Committees

Have you ever been on a nonprofit committee and half way through a very important project someone dismisses them selves from the committee because they have other prior business engagements or they have other time constraints, which do not fit with the committee.

Betwixt and Between - Staying Put or Movin' On

Is your work uninspiring? To consider whether to stay in your current role, reposition at your company, or move on to a new job, these are the main points to consider.

Dealing With Resistance to Change

Business professionals are often stymied by the problems they encounter when trying to implement change. Their frustration can then create even more of a roadblock. Following are a few tips for dealing with resistance.

Change Management in Government Purchasing

Change Management in Government Purchasing sure causes chaos indeed. In fact we have a whole company under investigation who will be paying 100s of million dollars in fines because it hired a government purchasing agent from the United States Air Force to come work for them and she took the job while she was still working on other military contracts and procurement solicitations which involved the very large Aerospace Company she went to work for.

Leading Through Change

Managing change can be very stressful and challenging. It is even more difficult when you are expected to help others manage their own personal change process, as well as your own. Here are six steps to leading through change so that you can be successful and those around you will also experience success.

Resilience: The Key to a Successful Today and Tomorrow

Success in business and in life comes to those who can sustain energy, creativity and passion in the midst of continual change, stress and competition. Information overload leaves us struggling to sustain that passion and drive and achieve the work/life balance that is essential to our growth and well-being. We are being bombarded with information every day and are working in different environments that require more accountability and have higher expectations than 10 years ago.

How to Improve the Management Teams Wins for Winning More Business Part 2: Focus on People Skills

Management can create more wins by focusing on developing the people skills necessary to conduct business. With a click of the mouse, your satisfied client can leave to become someone else's satisfied client. Learn why this strategy can deliver more wins for your business management team.

Change Assessment

Change is such a key ingredient in helping you discover and achieve success, and adaptability to change is vital to coping with some of life's most common challenges. Now it's time to really assess where you are on the transformation scale. How badly do you really want to change?