Archive for November, 2008
Staying ahead in a world that changes every second
0 Comments Published by fgermer November 24th, 2008 in Hard Won WisdomThanks for stopping by. I hope you like this and will subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!You can either take advantage of the opportunities that change brings, or stand there, helpless, as others tell you what you have to do. Either look ahead and adapt, or keep waiting for things to go [...]
There are legions of “leaders” out there desperately trying to keep their ships from sinking by plugging up this hole, then running over to the other side and plugging up that one before going over there to plug up the next one. Their ships are taking on so much water so fast that they don’t [...]
If you buy into the notion that these tough times present the greatest opportunity for you to stand up and lead, take a deep breath and center yourself. Before you devise your vision of what you are going to do and how you are going to do it, check in with yourself.
Your core values will [...]
Creating change without creating havoc
0 Comments Published by admin November 14th, 2008 in Change, Hard Won Wisdom, Risk, SuccessThere is a right way to make change. There is a wrong way to make change. Any beginning leadership book will tell you that. It will tell you about getting input from others so that you create the buy-in that will make you successful. It will tell you how to stage change so things are [...]
Leading through change
0 Comments Published by admin November 13th, 2008 in Change, Hard Won Wisdom, Office Politics, Risk, SuccessChange is more visible and rapid-fire as leaders jostle to protect their companies during tough times. They cut budgets, transfer resources, try new procedures, move people around, take things away, start using new terms, voice new visions and continually shake things up in hopes of doing what they have to do in order to weather [...]
Generations change, and they change US
0 Comments Published by admin November 12th, 2008 in Hard Won Wisdom, Risk, SuccessThere still are a few work environments where the old boss is still in charge doing the same old things the old way. But, those situations are definitely the exception. Today’s workplace has changed. And changed.
Last night, I had dinner with a Wal-Mart executive who explained the whole rap on Gen X and Y [...]
We were just discussing adapting to change in a business environment. The best example is that notion of “offshore support.”
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You have consumers and politicians screeching that it is wrong to send those jobs overseas, but did it stop that moving tide? NO. Instead, some companies have made billions finding ways [...]
Change IS.
0 Comments Published by admin November 10th, 2008 in Change, Hard Won Wisdom, Risk, SuccessWhen I started my career, there were only three ways to transmit a document from one place to another: 1) Deliver it yourself 2) mail it 3) use a “Quip” machine, where you’d attach the document to a cylinder that would spin around as a telephone line transmitted information to a similar machine that would [...]
