Change Management at the Highest Levels; The HP Shake-up

What happens when a board of director of a company with half a million employees starts leaking company secrets and strategy to the press? Well, in the case of HP, they decided to oust the CEO, when the board of director was caught thru looking at his phone records. The board of director who gave out the information costs the shareholders millions of dollars in shareholders equity due to negative press.

Is It Time To Change Your Mind About Mindsets?

When people are passionate, inspired and committed in their work they produce great results. If this is not the case then you can be sure that your organisation is underperforming.

Flexibility As a Criteria for Information Systems

Today more than before, flexibility or maneuvrability, is important when designing or buying information systems. This is a new kind of thinking where it is no longer sufficient to construct an information plan for the near future and design systems as planned. Plans do change often and before your system is implemented there is already a new technology available that provides other opportunities.

Why Walk Before You Can Run?

Do you sometimes get frustrated that others cannot see the relevance or importance of the kind of business changes you would like to make in your operation? Maybe you had great success in a previous business, developing your team, or you've done some reading and are sold on the value of doing some work on the strategy and vision of your current business. The perspective that is missing is that businesses go through states in their development; at any given state of development, paying attention to issues beyond that state is irrelevant. It's not that the concern to introduce work on key business issues is wrong in itself, only that those issues are irrelevant to the current state of the business.

What Are You Waiting For?

How many times have you had a thought about something but then not acted on it? It might be a concern you had or a great new approach that inspired you. Take a moment or two to list a few for yourself….

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.

Human Resource Courses and Trainings

There are significant points to remember in filling out entry-level jobs. Employers look for employees who may have majored in Human Resource courses.

Change, Growth And The Life Cycle (1)

Once there was a couple with serious problems in their marriage. They asked the advice of a counselor in a last attempt to resolve their conflict. After some sessions, the counselor confronted the couple with the bottleneck;

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

Managing Things and Leading People

High-performing teams and organizations balance the discipline of systems, processes, and technology management on a base of effective people leadership. Here are some key of the key distinctions between the two:

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.

Do Not Depend Solely on the Doctor in the House to do the Surgery

Many business leaders are good at starting a business or maintaining one that has already been well established. However, they are not good at fixing a seriously sick business. Avoid bankruptcy by hiring the turnaround experts.

Are You Throwing Away Good Ideas

Do you want to turn your business into an innovation machine where process improvements, problem-solving and bold new product ideas become the norm? Create the business context structure and focus on the long-term leadership commitment and communication activities required to execute them.