10 Steps to Making That Change Happen

10 Steps to Making change in your Hairdressing Salon business. Easy, Quick and Simple Hair Salon Management tips and advice.

Don't Let Your Hiring Practices Turn Into Your Maginot Line

Without Pre-Employment Background Checks, All the Security Precautions in the World May Amount to Nothing

Management, Change and... Stakeholders

Do not forget the stakeholders. Make a view of the categories and within this view elaborate on subsets.

Change Management: Finding the Order in Chaos

The term ‘change management’ tends to leave people in the dark, often seeming vague and somewhat mystical. “Does it have something to do with counting pennies...

The Inevitability Of Change

Recent studies have shown that industrial supervisors are working at less than 60 % of their potential. Basic management skills training is guaranteed to change all this and at such little cost.

Do Not (Intent to) Change What is Fixed And What Should Remain Fixed

If you are preparing a change you should first search for some specific elements in your company. They are easily to be found.

Change Management: No More Fear Of Change

The fear of change is the greatest menace to personal and organizational success. By trying to force change in such circumstances only serves to traumtize further individuals constrained by such a fear. This deepens the resistance to change and therefore is counterproductive to the goal of achieving success. There is a better way. Read on.

A Monster Of A Leadership Challenge: The Creature That Ate Your Career

Summary: All leaders experience fear, failure and self-doubt many times throughout their careers. The author combines the three into one creature he calls Ghidora. Ghidora is the name of the three-headed movie monster that engaged Godzilla in a titanic struggle. You're not a Godzilla, of course, but you can go a long way in defeating this beast through tips provided here.

The Dynamic Power of Hope

Hope is one of the most powerful sources of energy ever known to humankind. Highly energized cultures are charged with hopefulness and optimism. It's the dynamic power that mobilizes individuals and teams to make the improbable possible. It's the mark of a leader.

The Fastest Growing Company in the World Part 2 What is the S-WORD?

The Fastest Growing Company in the World Part 2 What is the S-WORD? In our last article we noted that companies like Microsoft had this S-WORD and some other companies were close or lost it over time. There is another company that has the S-WORD built on tradition. What company is it?

Developing World Class Enterprise Agility: How to Manage Radical Transformation

Becoming an agile world class company requires overcoming organizational inertia. Often overlooked are outdated cultures, ineffective management skills, bureaucratic red tape, and a reward system that doesn't fit. How do you get your arms around this? The integrated change model provides a comprehensive methodology for large scale change and implementation of time-based strategy.

You're the Expert, You Fire Him!

Family businesses are always a challenge. Despite our best intentions, baser emotions often rear their ugly heads, distracting us from what's truly important. One of those emotions is entitlement. In this article, I'm sharing a story about one family and their struggle with entitlement in their business.

Five Steps to a Successful CRM Implementation

For the professional services person, some iterations of CRM may be confusing - many are slanted toward automating customer service operations. But never fear, there is a whole lot more to CRM than fielding service calls. In fact, a new breed of CRM is quickly becoming a powerful solution for professional services firms, especially those with management teams that want to leverage firm-wide intellectual property to grow their client base, improve productivity and maximize profitability.