Companies Without Strategies Are Heading For Tragedies

Planning is critical in a stable as well as changing environment. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. In the fast tracked world, it is so easy to forget to plan and merely blindly execute without a proper plan in place. This is a recipe for failure.

Leaders Awake; This is Urgent and Important

It is the leader's accountability when the important and urgent becomes the important and never done. Leader's who do not accept the accountability do not deserve to be in the position of leadership.

Acquisition Binge can Cause Indigestion

Over and too rapid expansion can spell the death knell of many companies. Do not bite more than you can chew. Do not go an acquisition spree if you cannot digest.

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.

Changing Behaviour; Lessons from Safety Training

Changing people's behaviour with regard to safety is a time consuming, difficult business. General training does not have the immediate and emotional rewards of safety training. Changing people's behaviour without those rewards is even more difficult. The lessons that organisations have learnt in making safety training effective are, therefore, all the more instructional for general training.

The First Step to Health is to Recognise that You are Sick and Need Treatment

The first step to good health is to acknowledge the presence of pain and that all is not well with the body. In many ways, the job of the turnaround manager is akin to that of the physician. The first step is to diagnose the corporate patient’s condition before even attempting to prescribe the right medication. For prescription without proper diagnosis is malpractice.

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.

But No One Else Is Doing It!

Does your company foster creativity? Or does it go about business every day mocking change?

Your Low Cost Competitors Want To Eat Your Lunch

Your low cost competitors will not just nibble at your low price segment, they want to eat your lunch

Two Lean Tools You Can Use to Improve Processes at Your Site

You will find two illustrations of the use of lean tools at healthcare sites. These illustrations will quickly demonstrate how to save time, energy, and money while improving patient and client satisfaction. You will be able to easily translate the use of these tools to quality projects at your site.

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.

Human Resource Professionals: A Big Help for the Growth of Your Company!

The selection of qualified applicants to be future employees of your company is a responsible of your Human Resource Management. Therefore, they should be familiar with the totality of the company – its organization, vision, priorities and objectives. They are accountable on gathering precise information from these aspiring employees so as to avoid misleading and would save time and money.

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.

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.

Running Businesses Are Like Parenting - If You Love Them You Must Let Them Go

Evaluate your businesses, some may fare better if they are spun off. For others, which are terminally ill, it may be better to close them down and bury them.