Three Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot: Part III, The Consolidation Phase
The consolidation phase that follows the Avalanche is tough on everyone. Your people are worried about keeping their jobs—and many of them are probably already looking elsewhere. You’ve tried to introduce new processes and patch [...]
Three Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot, Part II: The Avalanche
The Business Storm Cycle is never still; like all cycles, it’s constantly turning. If you’ve weathered your first rapid-growth Tornado, in which your people and resources were stretched to the breaking point, you probably wondered [...]
Three Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot, Part I: In The Tornado
No matter where you are in what I call the Business Storm Cycle, as a leader you’ve got to lead—even when the way ahead looks foggy. But even experienced leaders can be blindsided by what [...]
Telecommuting Takes Alignment
How big a deal is telecommuting? Bigger by the day, especially if you’re working for or running a large company. And as business leaders and employees get more comfortable with the idea that telecommuters can [...]
Are You A Tech Wreck?
You may be, if you don’t understand the defining differences between how your employees interact with your IT and how your customers interact with your IT. In the first instance, your employees are tasked with [...]
Five Common Business-Breaking Leadership Errors
We all see those stories in the business publications: once-promising enterprises, whose dynamic leader was the subject of profiles in success just a few months back, suddenly going belly up and closing their doors. Oftentimes [...]
Are You Burned Out?
The “fire in the belly” entrepreneur is legendary in business – the person whose enthusiasm and belief in his or her enterprise carries them through the tough times, undaunted and head held high. But anyone who’s [...]
Forget the Band-Aid…This Is Serious
We’ve all seen the heartbreaking news photos of people standing in the rubble of their homes or places of business after a tornado has passed through. While the devastation wreaked on your enterprise by the [...]
Better, Faster, Smarter
These days, those three words – better, faster, smarter - have become the goal for all sorts of businesses. Do a Google search and you’ll see them applied to banking, car manufacturing, data analysis, urban [...]
Taking Stock When The Storms Subside: How to Utilize The Consolidation Phase
So, you’ve weathered the hyper-growth phase of the Business Storm Cycle we call the Tornado, suffered thru the Avalanche phase of shrinking margins, and you’re now in the consolidation phase, looking around at the devastation [...]