Change-Management
But No One Else Is Doing It!
No one else is doing it? Great! In business, sometimes we have to do things differently than everyone else in order to succeed or excel.A friend of mine, many years ago, worked in an office where there were dozens of typists typing on manual typewriters. Read more →Buy-In: What Is It? And Why Is It Important?
Until now, we've all recognized that buy-In is necessary when implementing change. And yet we seem to have difficulty achieving it: we've assumed that if we offer people the right reasons to change, offer proven evidence of the change's efficacy, persuade people that buy-in would be in their best interests and reward them sufficiently, and give them the appropriate skills, buy-in could be handled with some modicum of reliability and ease. Read more →Can A Minus Become A Plus?
Even on a great day at work there are so many things that can go badly. Any little glitch can become a negative, stress-inducing experience: the staff member who arrives late leaving the company short-handed, you placed an order for needed inventory in plenty of time but your vendor shipped to it to the wrong address which caused you to be out of stock, the customer who was told her order would be ready on Thursday but now needs it Wednesday, the invoice for ? Read more →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. Read more →CFOs Need to Know the Fallacies Behind "Business as Usual" in relation to Human Resources Practices
What are your people worth?"PEOPLE ARE OUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET." How many times have you heard that? More important, how many times upon hearing it have you nodded politely and then changed the subject to something more, ah, important? Read more →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. Read more →Change and Pressures to Innovate - The Coca Cola Case
Think about ?Coca Cola,? and tell me what you come up with. (I?ll just wait a moment ...) ... Possible associations are with: a giant company, a great drink, sugar. Read more →Change And The Deja Vu
"Here we go again," does this sound familiar? Some changes do indeed resemble a history that seems to repeat itself. Maybe you have experienced a d?j? vu; "the unsettling sensation of knowing that a situation could not have been experienced, combined with the feeling that it has. Read more →Change and the Other Side of the Amazon
"The motorcycle diaries," is a movie about two friends who travel through South America in the early fifties. Their journey starts At Buenos Aires and is to finish at Caracas. Read more →Change and The Unproductive Moments During Your Journey
The travel metaphor is an old but still useful metaphor to use in change management. Take for instance this viewpoint. You are on a business trip for a week or so. Read more →← Previous Next →
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Aphorism
Charlie [Munger] and I would be glad to take any money management organization in the world managing more than $US10 billion and we would be willing to bet that their aggregate investment (performance) will be poorer than a no-load, very low cost index fu
Warren Buffett