Big companies start off with verve and energy and aspiration and incredible values that fuel their growth, then grow to the point that they’re no longer in tune with what really moved the enterprise forward in the first place. It happened to McDonald’s, it happened to IBM, and it even happened to Apple and Nokia. [...]

This may come as a shock but most employees do not leap out of bed in the morning excited by the prospect of making more profit for their organization that day. Profit may motivate senior executives but it rarely does so for the front-line unless they are shareholders too. No, what motivates employees is feeling [...]

Internet access provides consumers with endless amounts of information at their fingertips – it’s all a search and a click away. And since this information has become available, we have become much smarter consumers. We care more about what’s in our food, what effect our actions have on the environment and so on. If a [...]

Only 30 percent of strategic initiatives are successfully executed. Of those that are, most CEOs view the process as too slow. Start by understanding the barriers to execution: Employees don’t grasp where an initiative is going. They don’t adopt new behaviors. They’re not committed to working together to achieve results. Most leaders try to speed [...]