Having a plan is great, but a plan is never perfect. Sticking to a pre-determined plan even when your assumptions prove to be wrong, or unforeseen external factors enter the picture, can
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When I ask business leaders if their employees know what the company’s strategic plan is and how they contribute to it, most of them say “yes.” When I ask them, “Can each of your staff tell me how doing just 1% better contributes to the profitability of the company?” the answer is usually “No.”
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The common adage is “praise your team in public and criticize them in private.” That may avoid confrontation, but it’s not a recipe for success. Carpedia VP Andrew Rush explains why leaders have to speak up in order to preserve their company culture.
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Is your business living up to its core values? To know for sure, you need to be listening on two levels. Carpedia VP Andrew Rush explains in this executive summary article.
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We once worked with a company that manufactured specialty vehicles who was close to going bankrupt. When we went in to assess the situation, we discovered that more than half the vehicles
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When you align the plans of your business so that they are properly translated, you have now given your frontline leaders better tools and expectations to manage against. CEOs that I speak
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You can’t align your business if the people in your organization don’t know where you’re going and how to get there.
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It is now widely held that a great organizational culture is the key to making any business, sustainably profitable. The key to creating a great culture, is through alignment.
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In the last Opportunity, we discussed the need to look at processes as a whole before descending into the activities of individuals within the process. One of the benefits of analyzing organizations
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One of the obvious places to look for opportunities to improve is to study a process within the organization and see if you can make it better (simpler, faster, or less expensive
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