Press Releases
Strategic Management - "A New Psychological View Is Needed"
Expertly analysing and managing market forces - according to Michael Porter's powerfull persepective - seems not to be enough in our days! Strategic leaders need to expertly analyse and manage their own and others' thought processes. ...
Innovation Management - "Don't Deal with Innovation Lies"
In daily business innovators are confronted with particularly insidious lies; people sincerely believes them; but please don't. Find better and more serious way to proof supposed facts. ...
Leadership - "The Art of Admitting Failure"
In Business leaders are hesitating to admit to own mistakes because this may be construed as a valid sign of weakness. But in business it is all about relationship, relationship between humans. And the strength of relationship is nit how perfect it is, but how open it deals with personal failure. ...
Strategic Management - "Reinvent Your Business in Time"
There is no doubt; sooner or later all businesses come to a point of going down again. The challenge is to jump from the maturity stage of one business to the growth stage of the following. However, often companies wait too long before creating the foundations of a successful new business. ...
Ethics - "Ethical Leadership: An Operating Manual"
Not only as a consequence of the recent global recession is the demand for ethical leadership growing. In response to that many managers rethink their strategies which might change basic beliefs about leadership which come from how they behave rather than what to produce. ...
An article by Dov Seidman published on "Businessweek" on December 17, 2010.
Strategy - "How to Create the Context for Strategy Execution"
Managers often assume that people fully understand the overall strategy. But it seems to be almost impossible to ensure that initiatives will fit together on all levels. Consequently, leaders need ways to truly align things. ...
An article by Ron Ashkenas published on "Harvard Business Review" on October 13, 2010.
Team Management - "... the Four Essential Types?"
"... there is no such thing as a perfect leader." In order to be successful a leader inevitably needs a combination of specific personalities that facilitate a group to function on a high quality level. ...
In interview: Paul Maritz, conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant published on "The New York Times" on October 2, 2010.
Leadership - "Tell Me how I Failed You"
Failure often arises when people don't communicate; questions may help to resolve same. When admitting failure, leaders may put themselves in the line for blame. But to do so; it displays vulnerability and demonstrates strength of character. ...
An article by John Baldoni published on "Businessweek" on September 28, 2010.
Business Plan - "Valuable as Long as Paper Ink Dries?"
When poeple create business plans they do it for many sorts of reasons. But it should be a living document that moves with the business rather than a snapshot of a specific situation. ...
An article by Amy Gallo published on "Harvard Business Review" on September 2, 2010.
Strategy - "Three Questions ..."
Diagnostic frameworks on your competetion are often not very helpful, as comprehensive and complex they are. But front-line practitioners need realistic models to improve their day-to-day decisions and actions. But there is one of the most practical frameworks. ...
An article by H. James Wilson published on "Harvard Business Review" on August 24, 2010.
Risk Management - "Instead of Avoiding Risk, Prepare for It"
When facing risk, organisations have two basic possible responses: designing systems to stave off risks or to be resilient. But most organisations are heavily biased towards risk prevention creating systems to be so risk-averse that people truncate learning. ...
An article by Rita McGrath published on "Harvard Business Review" on July 7, 2010.
Self Management - "How to Control Yourself and Your Temper"
Under time pressure it's quite easy for a manager to act inconsiderately disapointing others and oneself by losing one's temper. Learning to also say "NO" and resisting the temptation to multitask are excellent long-term solutions. ...
Change Management - "Change Even Without External Reason!"
Even if the external environment does not demand a response a periodical shake up makes sense because of internal changes. The human dynamics within the organisation are constantly shifting and require changing along with them. ...
An article by Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam, and Ranjay Gulati published in "Harvard Business Review" THE MAGAZINE June 2010.
Innovation Management - "Why Being Different Makes All the Difference?"
While inventing most companies are chasing same opportunities that other companies are chasing and have gotten so locked into a particular cadence of competition. Successful companies and leaders aspire to redefine the terms of competition by embracing one-of-a-kind ideas. ...
Customer Orientation - "How to Stop Customers from Fixating on Price?"
Also owing to many options available to customers they often see only one factor having importance for them in the buying situation: price. But it is still possible to jolt customers into considering the value of offerings e.g. quality. ...
An article by Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu published in "Harvard Business Review" THE MAGAZINE May 2010.
Family Business - "How to Prepare for Succession?"
Often business owners create a kind of time bomb which can not only destroy their companies but may also tear apart their families while not forming a succession plan. Better to prepare the controlled succession to avoid a later disaster. ...
An article by Ian Mount published on "The New York Times" on March 17, 2010.
Leadership - "A Story about Motivation"
The challenge to motivate people is present in the daily business. Is only money the trigger? No, as experts found out! But what moves people to do their work? People tend to think of themselves as stories. Interacting with someone needs to fit into that story in some satisfying way. ...
An article by Peter Bregman published on "Harvard Business Review" on February 3, 2010.
Leadership - "When Should You Let an Employee Make a Mistake?"
Managers, of course, intend to prevent employees from committing mistakes which may cost money. However, if we don't give them the opportunity to fail, we will not give them either the opportunity to succeed! The challenge is allowing for failure, while ensuring the safety of employees and companies. ... An article by Peter Bregman published on "Harvard Business Review" on November 5, 2009.