Litigation Can Put You Out Of Business In A Heartbeat

It is always better not to go into litigation. There are no winners in the litigation except the lawyers. But litigation can be the final that drives into the coffin of a dying company. Be very wary and make sure that all paper work and due diligence are done properly in case of litigation

Change - It Is Like Riding a Bicycle

Successful companies know change is a necessity. The challenge is continually encouraging, creating, and implementing worthwhile changes to make a difference for the business. Helping your team learn to accept and even embrace change is similar to learning to ride a bicycle.

Do not play the game of blame and shame

“Blame your parents when you have no food and blame the government when your business is bad.” Such wrong attitude provides a bad start to solving your problems. Shame and blame are not justifiable. Take responsibility.

Change Management at Consulting Firms

One difficult crisis for consulting firms is to have change management in the middle of a project or with employees who are intimately involved with a client on a huge project on a serious timeline for completion. Change Management of the consulting team can be devastating for the clients project management team and yet this occurrence is not so uncommon.

How to Implement Change in the Workplace Without Sending Your Staff to a Psychiatrist

Effective strategies for implementing workplace change without destroying staff morale or increasing employee stress

Change, Growth And The Life Cycle (2)

Each stage has a development task and a person should resolve this task before he can move forward to a next phase - Change is like that, you need to deal with the challenges of one stage, before you can more wholeheartedly to the next one

Change Management at General Motors in Oct of 2006

It looks like General Motors is getting ready to lay off a whole bunch of people in the tens of thousands. Recently Mr. Kirk Kerkorian has been trying to buy up more shares of General Motors and continue to take over the company. It makes sense from his standpoint to buy General Motors stock on the cheap and then repair the mistakes and watch the stock go back up again. He stands to make a tremendous amount of money when General Motors recovers.

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.

Criticism Gets You No Where

Any one can criticize, condemn and complain. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. It is also a much smarter way to live. Read about ways that are more effective since they lead to more solutions, improvement and change than any amount of criticism could ever do.

People Like Change

I've often heard it said that People Don't Like Change. But is this really true? If it were true, wouldn’t we still be hunter gatherers, eking out a nomadic existence?

Bureaucracy is the Parasite to Productivity

A parasite is medically defined as an organism that lives on within another organism at the expense of the host. Bureaucracy is an administrative system, which places undue emphasis on adherence to complex procedures and inflexible rules of operation. It is an administration characterised by excessive red tape and routine.

Change - Not Without Having a Break

Is it possible to change without having (using) a break? For instance you write a series of articles, day in day out without losing one, you just continue writing about different topics, but with the same mindset.

Sustaining Improvement: Is It a Pipe Dream?

This short think piece, which has been co-authored by Mark Eaton and Simon Phillips, aims to help readers start to think more broadly about the improvement programmes that they are planning (or implementing) to transition or transform their organisation.