But No One Else Is Doing It!

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

How to Deal with Unnecessary and Unproductive Resistance

Understanding that people could possible resist your planned change would help to prevent the same resistance later on when the measures are implemented.

In Times Of Trouble, Do Not Become Schizophrenic But Let Your Focus Be Emphatic

Schizophrenic patients suffer split personalities, characterised by withdrawal from reality and behavioural disturbances. Management needs to have very sharp and emphatic focus rather than become schizophrenic.

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.

Four Cs for Restructuring: Communication, Concentration, Cost Cutting and Cash

Typically in a major restructuring exercise, the timing is extremely short for you to deliver the positive results. There are many things to do and remember. However, you need to prioritise and remember these four Cs.

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.

A Troubled Company Cannot Do a Quick Fix by Marrying Another Problematic One

You cannot fix a bad computer with another bad one. The viruses residing in each of the partner will spread to one another causing both to be ruined

Are You Still Doing it All Yourself

Delegating is necessary to empower effective teams. Good sports coaches delegate each position to players on the field. Business leaders should do the same.

Implement the Benefit of Business Change with R-pM

Conventional methods prevent business change for planned and managed benefits and return. R-pM provides the proper method for business change in the 21st century enterprise to leave 20th century change management problems behind.

Ineffective Publicity Campaign Is Only Short Term Thrill

You may have a better mousetrap, but if you do not effectively promote your mousetrap, how are your customers going to beat a path to your door?

The Shipboard Management Structure

Whatever company looked at there is a structure in place, whether it is the ideal structure and whether it works or is practical in real life is not important except to say that like all businesses, cruise ships, gas tankers, ferries, rowing boats and offshore supply vessels all have a management structure in place.

Good Organisational Structure Enhances Infrastructure

A person who has a lazy, slow-moving gait tends to look less commanding than someone who walks with a good posture that exudes confidence. Likewise, the way the company is organised can help it position for future growth.

Introduction to Project Managment

It is common for organisations to undertake projects, however most do not employ full time Project Managers and it is common to pull together a project team to address a specific need. While most people are not formally skilled in project methodology, taking a role in a project team can be an excellent learning opportunity and also enhance a person’s career profile. To that end, this article aims to give an understanding of project management methodology and how it underpins most formally run projects.