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Can You Keep Your Lead When Others Falter?
As we see the economy falter, we as business owners and managers wonder how we can keep it all working smoothly.
Lets start by taking a leaf out of big business. Its often the other way around as corporations look to entrepreneurial businesses for ideas. Back in the late 1980s early 1990s corporations the world over […]
Will Your Business Make a Profit?
Break-even analysis is a process used to determine when a business will be able to cover all its expenses and begin to make a profit. For the startup business it is extremely important to know your startup costs, which provide you with the information you need to generate enough sales revenue to pay the ongoing […]
Why Create an Annual Business Plan?
Can you imagine going on a road trip without knowing your destination? Or, building your house without plans? The same can be said about running your business without a plan.
They say that -If you dont know where you are going, any road will do.- But if you dont know where you are going how do […]
Discussions are Killing your Business?
Have you ever sat in a meeting where everyone is busy giving their point of view and trying to prove why they are right? Where no one is actually listening or trying to understand other individuals points of view. The alternative meeting format is where everyone listens to and agrees with the meeting leader. No […]
The Elephant in the Room
The Blind Men and the Elephant
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
-God bless me! But the Elephant
Is very like a wall!-
The […]
Business Excellence: Its in the Eye of the Beholder
At a recent forum the panel the discussion was around programs that lead an organization to excellence. The most consistent views seemed to suggest that few programs on their own will achieve excellence. There needs to be an overall strategy moving an organization towards excellence. Nothing occurs overnight and each piece of the puzzle has […]
Do You Have A Strategic Plan?
Like most people we have plans for our businesses. Strategic plans, budgets, succession plans and the like. The real question is do you have a plan for your life?
I have thought about this time and again meeting and working with executives who have taken on new roles in their organization or taken on a new […]
Amplifying Positive Deviance
In our consulting we believe that we can and will find the solutions to business problems within the organization in which we work. Often we may need to bring in an outside expert to show how others are doing work, but essentially companies have the solution at hand. Its just not acted upon, for a […]
Is Leadership Worth the Investment?
Leaders are people who achieve results. Leaders are those whose attitudes and actions lead to positive results. Sending your staff to leadership training may not deliver the goods you’re looking for! It helps them build a foundation for achieving the objectives,
if they get to implement the knowledge. Big IF, some never get the opportunity.
As a […]
Execution or Exit
After Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan published Execution - The discipline of getting things done (ISBN 0-609-61057-0), in 2002, every business on this planet rushed out and dropped copies off to their managers and said “Execute” the quieter implication was, “…or exit.”
Why did this happen? Well most managers realize that there is a gap between […]
