A good communication strategy is at the heart of any successful change management effort Let's have a look at a speech by Al Pacino in the movie, Any Given Sunday. The premise for the the...
Change resistance quotes While there are many reasons employees resist change, most of these reasons have a common source: Employees reluctance or refusal to change are related to the fear of change. Leaders can’t control...
Corporate culture is a hard thing to get right It’s a moving target that means something different to everyone. It grows and evolves over time and is the result of action and reaction. It is the...
Organizational alignment is an important concept Organizational alignment is an important concept for leaders to consider. This is especially true in the current fast-paced, complex, and constantly changing environment. What we say is strategy -...
Era of profound and accelerating disruption We live in an era of profound and accelerating disruption - the pace of change in the book publishing world accelerates, leaving brick-and-mortar book stores are in serious trouble. Products...
At one point in time, people believed the world was flat. This view changed with advances in technology. Technology tends to change everything, and often quite dramatically. The initial symptom is always the same -...
Sharing is an old idea The “sharing economy”, also known as the “collaborative consumption”, “peer economy” or “access economy”, consists on peer-to-peer rental schemes providing extra income for the owners and lower prices for the borrowers....
The sharing concept has created markets out of things that wouldn’t have been considered monetizable assets before Dubbed "collaborative consumption" - or "the sharing economy" - this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online...
Technology shifts can radically change business principles. New technologies are being developed all the time, and the impact this has had on the world of business is immeasurable. As technology continues to move forward, it...
Corporate culture is not a set of core values developed by a small group of people at an off-site leadership meeting. It is not always what a chief executive describes in an annual report or...
Change is an inevitable part of the modern business environment. Organizations, and the people within them, must constantly re-invent themselves to remain competitive. Sustaining success depends on an organization’s ability to adapt to a changing...
Don't fire employees and leave them in charge of the corporate twitter account HMV has fallen in tough times and had to make some of its staff redundant . As you’d expect, the employees being...
