In a volunteer organization or non-profit, spreading the word on opportunities to connect and share is where social media shines. When …
Cited and noted: What Does Fortune 500 Turnover Mean?
Since 1955, the Fortune 500 list represents the 500 largest US corporations by gross revenue. Making the Fortune 500 is a mark …
Planning the art of possibility
The habit of deficit-based thinking gets us into spiral of what is wrong. When we look, with our hammer, for things to fix then every interaction and process, all those nails, look right for a good hammering.
There is an alternative switch into the art of planning possibility.
Social metrics that matter to your boss
A business case usually relies on numbers. Numbers to justify the investment, numbers to project the return on investment, and numbers …
USA Inc. Mary Meeker’s letter to investors on America’s financial statements
The United States as a for-profit corporation.
Mary Meeker takes an investor relation’s view of a letter to USA Inc. shareholders and presents how investors might position the United States of America as a corporation.
What position will you take going short, going long, or more likely: what’s going on?
Getting it done versus getting it accomplished
Some people, and some organizations, can confuse very elemental operational concepts. The confusion is tough to trace to a culture issue …
An organization intervention is not an organization inquisition
An organization’s present is built upon their collected history. This history is an essential core of their organization’s being. The past set the present capabilities. Rattling an organization’s history is rattling the foundation stones of an organization’s culture.
A highlight into what people do wrong attracts attention to … what people do wrong. No one likes association to something broken. No one likes it pointed out they work within, are part of, or manage broken processes.
An intervention should not open an inquisition for blame and shame, but an inquiry into the possibility of what can be.
Business strategy failures are project management failures
The essence of strategic change is not a new direction, but a series of directives. What to start, what to stop, …
Technical ability does little to mitigate risk
Organizations don’t simply run from a strategic plan prescription. Projected cash flows don’t deliver themselves. Business units don’t run in a …
Mergers and acquisitions failures are project management failures
Mergers and acquisitions failures are really business strategy project management failures
No matter the motive for a merger or acquisition the real work comes with integration.
Similar to a project scope statement that identifies the success criteria for a project, the only way to identify success or failure is within the scope of the M&A goals.
Subsequently, the risk in mergers and acquisitions comes down to the ability of a team to deliver within budget, by a certain time, and up to project expectation (scope) and project failure rates for M&A deals are strikingly high.
Recap: Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success
A recap on my series of six blogs around project scope. Includes links to slide deck and customizable templates: 1 of 6 — …
Mergers and acquisitions systems thinking strategies, part 3
Systems thinking strategies for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) provide better integration valuations and post-merger operations. With mergers and acquisitions systems thinking the …