What Strategy Looks Like: It’s not simple

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Why You Might Be the Reason You Cannot Sell Your Business

Why You Might Be the Reason You Cannot Sell Your Business

One of the top reasons a small successful business is not salable may be because of you, the founder. When the operations of your business depends on the owner to do the work, there is really no business to sell; unless you plan on selling yourself with the business? When you started your business, years […]

Employees that Transform Your Business

Employees that Transform Your Business

Organizational structure was set up over a century ago and remained mostly unchanged, since the beginning of the industrial age. Those that paid for the business had all the say in the business. They, and their advisors,  found the funding, decided on the current and future conditions and direction of the company, selected the product, […]

A Story of Two Shutdowns And Their People

A Story of Two Shutdowns And Their People weather vane with a rooster on top

I want to tell you the story of two manufacturing companies. Both companies were subsidiaries of large global companies, owned by even larger foreign companies. Both companies had been in business for several decades, were well recognized and respected in their industries, and both had under 500 employees, but they differed in how they treated […]

Sentinels To Change

Sentinels To Change WatchTower

John P. Kotter, arguably one of the most prolific and well-known experts on the subject of change, uses his experience with hundreds of large corporations as research on the change process and what makes it successful, or not. He has published dozens of books on change and academic articles through Harvard School of Business, as […]

Four Important Points in Change – An Adaptive Process to Success

Four Important Points in Change – An Adaptive Process to Success complex architectural structure of boxes.

When describing the general stages of change, I like to categorize the steps into these four points as a overview of what to do. These points are easy to understand but complex to implement. There are always many moving parts and people involved, which requires a lot of preparation and planning and the willingness to […]

Like Turning A Ship?

Like Turning A Ship? Change is like turning a ship

Most of us have heard or used the expression, “like turning a ship” with reference to change in an organization or bureaucracy. This analogy works with respect to the time it takes to have a ship, that is heading in one direction, turn to another direction and then carry on in that direction. The challenge […]