Use this process to pick the best candidate, satisfy everyone involved, and develop the culture. This is a variation of the process described in 327. Imagine that you are filling a vacant position by making either a lateral transfer or a promotion. You have advertised...
By engaging employees, a manager improves productivity and avoids closing the plant. This is his story in his words. “I was a Plant Manager at the California Plant of a multi-plant Fortune 50 company. There I worked with Meridian Group for a number of years, and with...
Resistance is a symptom of something else. Unless you get to the cause you will spend endless time trying to manage the “resistance” symptom. Change is Natural Change is natural in this world. Evolution itself is a response to change. We naturally respond to a...
Internal competition often works against a good culture, against open communication, against success. No senior manager deliberately wants to close down communications, but competition in a leadership team can stifle openness throughout the company. Most...
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...
