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Family businesses are always a challenge. Despite our best intentions, baser emotions often rear their ugly heads, distracting us from what's truly important. One of those emotions is entitlement. In this article, I'm sharing a story about one family and their struggle with entitlement in their business.

Why Change Management Training is Essential for Your Company

Most companies will face major changes in their organization. To help the transformation process go more smoothly have your leaders engage in change management training. Read on for more.

The People Factor: Collaborative Decision-Making

We all generally get the 'doing' just fine: we know how to introduce strategic initiatives, how to begin the implementation process, how to offer our people 'change management' programs so the new systems (or whatever) are up on time and do what they are supposed to do. But how do we help our people adjust, and do a competent job, when we are asking them to simultaneously work with new people, new technology, new vocabularies, new outcomes, and new job descriptions – and aren't teaching them how to juggle all of that while maintaining their daily job requirements?

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.

A Successful Organizational Marriage: Cultural Integration is the Secret to a Successful M&A

M&A activities bring about significant change involving employees, organizational entities, systems, shareholders, customers, and many other stakeholders. Companies that want to expand, strive to acquire businesses that enhance their product portfolio and secure additional employees with specialized skills. However, many companies enter into M&A activity without recognizing the impact on the organization and the overall impact on the human element within the two merging companies. M&A activities that are improperly managed can result in lost revenue, customer dissatisfaction, and employee attrition.

What Is Lean Healthcare?

You will find a brief introduction to the idea of Lean Healthcare. You can also find some excellent resources for further exploration.

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.

Efficient, Effective Meetings

Most professionals report spending between 15% and 30% of their time in meetings. How about yourself - do you know the inside of the conference rooms better than you know your office? And of the time that you spend in the meetings, how much of it is really valuable to you, and how much does it cost?

How To Change The Unconscious Organizational Culture

Do you know what impact your organizational culture is having on the performance of your company? Did you know that the culture is based in deeply entrenched and often hidden beliefs that individuals bring in the door with them? If you want to change this read on.

Adapting to Change is Equally Important as Adopting Change

Change isn’t just a matter of doing things differently. It has to do with the trust the employees have in the management to know that the alteration will be an improvement.

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.

Managing Resistance to Change

The resistance to change is purely a psychological concern only. They are concerned with their safety. They do apprehend whether they would be protected and free from harm during the period when changes are implemented. The situations caused by changes will trigger the psychological responses such as safety and security. Some of these responses may be positive and some others may be negative. For example, if people with decision-making powers were taken out, on account of change efforts, it would cause a negative result. On the other hand if they are told clearly about these early and given clear options to chose from, they would be more positive about the change.

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.

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.

Things Do Not Change - We Do

We live in a world of constant change, and even though the vast majority of these changes are for the better, change is still something that many people – and therefore many organisations – can find ...