A big question these days is what will the New Normal look like and for companies searching to answer this question, the other question to ask and answer is: do we have the right people, skills, structure, strategy in place to succeed in the New Normal? Strategic planning will likely be far more fluid in [...]
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Do You Have Cracks In Your (Organizational) Foundation?
Posted in Change Management, Employee Development, Organizational Priorities, Skills Gap, tagged Change Management, Employee Development, Skills Gap on January 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
New Year’s Resolutions: Are You Applying Them To Your Professional Development?
Posted in Career Management, Corporate Culture, Organizational Priorities, Self Development, tagged Career Management, Corporate Culture, Professional Development, Resolutions, Self Development on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The New Year generally starts with a tradition of resolutions and yet most of the time, those resolutions center around our personal lives and goals. I think there’s great value in introspection as it can help to shape successful changes for the future. In the vein of applying resolutions to our professional lives, I ran [...]
Can You Have Too Many Organizational Priorities? Part 2
Posted in Business, Organizational Priorities, tagged Business, Organizational Priorities, Strategic Change on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the first part of the series, I gave an example of how one company had a lot of great ideas which turned into a lot of priorities to take on in one year. I used the analogy of shooting fish in a barrel. You ruin the barrel and generally miss the fish—you might even [...]
Can You Have Too Many Organizational Priorities? Part 1
Posted in Business, Customer Management, Leadership, Organizational Priorities, tagged Business, Change Management, Customer Management, Organizational Change, Organizational Priorities, Strategic Change on July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Can you have too many organizational priorities? Yup! Organizational priorities generally trickle down to management objectives and when those objectives become another full time job and/or completely take your focus off the primary job, you’ve got too many. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. How well does that really work when you could just [...]