Four Ways to Keep Your Business Going During a Crisis

If you are a small or home based entrepreneur or a solo business owner, there is little room in your business for taking a sick day when a crisis or stressful life event happens. In today's world our lives are complex, fast paced, and challenging. How do you keep your business going and growing during the times when life happens and you can't work?

An Office Hierarchy Guideline

Dictator, Imperial or democratic are different types of administration for many different countries in the world. All of them have one thing in common. There is always one person at the top. The difference lies in how the delegation of power is distributed & the structure of its hierarchy.

Managing Change - Air Cover

Ever wonder why people are gun shy to join your change project? Wonder no more! Understand the principle of Air Cover - one of the least understood elements of change leadership. When you don't provide Air Cover as a leader you'll end up like the Freedom Fighters at the Bay of Pigs. Illustrated with a real life story.

Are You Driving Your Vision?

Many businesses get bogged down by leaders who want to control everything. Leaders should focus on driving their vision in order to enable their people to perform successfully.

Managing Change - Leading for a Change

Lead your organization for a change. During times of rapid organizational change leadership is a must. And leading with the whole person is vitally important but few people understand what it means. Dont let that be you. Lead for a change and read on to see how!

Leading Change - Look Behind You When Managing Change

When you are the change leader you better make sure you have followers. You need to look behind you and make sure you understand why your followers are there? Most leaders don't understand the four reasons people follow you but you can. Read on now ...

Leading Change - Getting People on Board

When you are leading change you have to start by engaging the people. They arent going to get behind you and follow you like sheep because you are so wonderful. No, its going to take a lot more than that to get your change moving. Read on and see why there is no such thing as organizational change, its all personal ...

I Can't Find My Mindset

Concepts such as creating a 'will to succeed', entrepreneurial spirit, dynamism and a winning culture can be very inspiring in the workplace. The trouble with these ideas is that they have virtually no predictive value in behavioral terms...

Organizational Assessments- How Do We Look?

Are you too close to take a good look at your own situation? Assessments can be a great tool to see new business and personal perspectives

Managing Change - Information Overload

Do you wake up in the morning to an inbox overflowing with useless information? If you do and your trying to manage change you're in deep do do. Read on and see what you have to do to manage change and manage information in today's world of useless information.

Leading Change - Telling it Straight

Do you ever feel like a mushroom? Like your leaders are keeping you in the dark for a reason? You get it, they don't. If you're leading change you better 'get it' or you'll fail. Read on and see one of the biggest mistakes leaders make when leading change.

On Corporate Culture - It's the CEO

The CEO of a company represents a company's culture. Important –- regarding change -- is whether the role of the CEO is more that of a manager who is safeguarding the current culture or one who is leading a (cultural) change.

Leading Change - Big Titles Don't Mean Big Honesty

You've all met them, the guy or gal with the big title who comes in to save the day. Just because they call you a leader sure doesn't make you one. Read on and see the damage done by leaders with big titles who are light on honesty. They think they can say it and make it so.