Has your boss ever handed you an assignment you thought was downright crazy? Did you pull your hair out trying to figure out how to respond? Or, did you seek greener pastures to avoid the looming failure? If so, this … Read the rest ...
Change is all around us, from those minor adjustments in our daily lives to world-shaping events. Excepting the whims of Mother Nature, in each change, someone is usually the catalyst, the driver. If the change affects us directly, we can … Read the rest ...
On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) voted to withdraw from the European Union (EU). The referendum, called by Prime Minister David Cameron, produced a 52% to 48% win for the Leave side. Tellingly, the campaign has been dubbed … Read the rest ...
Mergers and acquisitions are fraught, invariably, with peril. Wharton accounting professor Robert Holthausen, who teaches courses on M&A strategy, says that researchers estimate the range for failure is between 50% and 80%. Roger L. Martin stated in a recent Harvard … Read the rest ...
Jim Goodnight, the Co-Founder and CEO of SAS once stated, “Ninety-five percent of my assets drive out the gate every evening. It’s my job to maintain a work environment that keeps those people coming back every morning.” That mindset has … Read the rest ...
An article by Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague in the Harvard Business Review suggests that placing major emphasis on changing an organization’s culture is putting the cart before the horse. In the article, entitled Culture is Not the Culprit… Read the rest ...
Change invariably spawns problems. Hopefully they’re small and can be fixed quickly and inexpensively. But sometimes the problems encountered are doozies that disrupt normal, day-to-day operations. The bigger the change, the greater the risk of business disruption. So, we spend … Read the rest ...
Sometimes, the best of intentions results in unanticipated, and undesired, consequences. The French economic journalist Frédéric Bastiat wrote in his essay “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”: There is only one difference between a bad economist and a … Read the rest ...
In most organizations, the demand for project work far exceeds the funding and resources available. Aproaches to resolve this challenge vary from pitched power struggles, rigorous portfolio management practices and demand management arrangements to siloing strategies and executive dictates.
In … Read the rest ...
Strategic planning. It’s that corporate activity that happens every four or five years, takes six months to complete and requires an annual renewal cycle to update the long term projections. Or, it may happen every six months at a company … Read the rest ...