Before You Head Off, Make Sure You Know Where You Are Going - The Importance of Clear Objectives

The title of this article sounds like simple advice, but so often we undertake activities and projects without really understanding how they are going to help us to achieve our aims. I have outlined below some of the causes of this cavalier (and costly) approach to business improvement along with how we might approach things differently.

Change Management - Urgent Information

You can get change working in your favor. I have used the following suggestions to get positive change management outcomes over the past 17 years. The following is urgent information because every day you don't use it is a day in which you will live in fear of an uncertain future

Understanding & Managing Change

Understanding and managing change are the dominant themes of management today. adapting to a ever changing present is essential for success for a unpredictable future.

Managing Change

For most of us, the pace of change seems to have picked up dramatically over the past few years, thanks in part to the increased availability and use of technology, as well as the global economy in which we now live and work. This article shows you how to manage change by making small, controlled changes each day.

Management, Change and... Stakeholders

Do not forget the stakeholders. Make a view of the categories and within this view elaborate on subsets.

Change Management: Finding the Order in Chaos

The term ‘change management’ tends to leave people in the dark, often seeming vague and somewhat mystical. “Does it have something to do with counting pennies...

What Does it Mean to be Smart?

What it means to be smart is the willingness to learn; to look for alternatives and select the best possible option; then demonstrate the competencies required to execute the plan. Our society adequately develops the required technical and intellectual skills, but we’ve missed the mark on developing essential skills that help people manage complexity.

Do Not (Intent to) Change What is Fixed And What Should Remain Fixed

If you are preparing a change you should first search for some specific elements in your company. They are easily to be found.

How to Know What You Know (1)

How do you know what you know? Knowing this is one of the first steps in knowledge management.

How to Squeeze More Out of Every Day and Still Have Time to Play in the Evenings!

You’ll discover tried and tested and proven business building strategies and the little known secrets of some of the best business minds on the planet - ideas you’ll be able to slot seamlessly into your own business and personal success formula.

The Smallest Intervention You Can Think Of

Change is amongst other things about intervention. Significant interventions provoke resistance. Think of another way. And you can stay close to what you learn at home.

Turn Your Team Into Top Performers

Most of us have known a few LOSERS in our career. Problems surface and we face challenges. Who are the ones we call losers? Where did they come from? How did we end up with them on our payroll? Who hired them?

What Do We Need To Change?

When we talk about managing change, what is the change that we are seeking to manage. Unless we are sure what it is and how to go about it then how can we ever hope to manage it?

Conventional Business Change is the Problem, Not the Solution

Since the beginning of business, methods for operating and developing the business have been refined into the conventional methods used today. We improve management and effect business change by adding new conventional methods on the methods in place. But, there are problems with those methods in place that will never be solved by adding on more conventional methods. We need to take a complete new look at the way structure the enterprise in order to solve fundamental business problems.