Six out of ten acquisitions fail to meet their financial goals. Usually the operational and financial plans are realistic, but they don’t meet expectations because people and cultural issues prevent proper company integration. Manage Uncertainty When...
Is that your Boss? Your Dad? Your Mom? Darth Vader? Or a person like you? Morphing your boss from giant — or mom, or dad — back to person, boss-human being, can be a liberating experience. Doing it can build a valuable skill to carry into future jobs. And doing...
Author, Anonymous, circa 2000? (I put this article on the website for your entertainment and enlightenment. This is not a real suggestion.) Sometimes topical or fashionable words block real communication. Do you keep falling asleep in staff meetings? What about those...
Culture is like a magnetic field aligning everything in it. If people are not aligned all you need do is change the magnetic field, i.e. the company’s culture, and they’ll all be aligned. That may sound overly simple, but it’s true. It’s the doing...
