You commonly hear an equity firm or venture capital partner claim to invest in the people. Well, when it comes to costs, …
Scope or: how to manage projects for organization success, part 1
To deliver what someone expects, when someone expects, and the price someone agrees to requires an ability to define scope.
When a project fails, resources are lost and organization pressure increases. The more projects that fail the more resistant people are to associate with, work on, or fund new projects.
This is a first in a series of scope and project management blogs and templates to improve project delivery with a set of tools and principles to understand and manage project scope, from impact assessment through stakeholder communication.
More workers voluntarily quit their jobs
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal presented More Workers Start to Quit. Workers voluntarily quit and reject the feeling that they are lucky to …
All hail the solution to the micromanager
Micromanagers grind work to halt and wastes resources, requisite organization is framework that looks at strategy with time as a critical element for how work is assigned, done, and managed. Requisite organization, or requisite uncertainty, is a great way to empower employees, maximize resources, and modify micromanagers.
Sales, finance, and human resources, only room for two at the table
Every business function is subordinated to either: sales, finance, or human resources. How can HR possibly have any impact when business is all about sales, brining in the money and finance making the best use of the money?
12 tips to bridge the generation gap
This is the first time in American history that four generations are working together.
Baby Boomers actually have quite a bit in common with Gen X’ers or Echo Boomers, particularly because they gave birth to them and Gen Y probably knew them as siblings.
Guest blogger Michele Simos offers a simple solution to getting all of the generations on the same page.
Change management, project management, and the intervention
Overwhelmingly, organizations rely on process analysis to identify opportunity for savings. Process analysis is most commonly identified as change management. Change …
Change: this time let’s try something new
In today’s Boston Sunday Globe, Ideas Section, under the Uncommon Knowledge, Surprising insights from the Social Sciences, by Kevin Lewis, I …
Organization strategy and development – party like it’s 1969
Organizations are made up of people, more specifically teams of people who interact through multiple relationships and networks.
Just as people learn and change, organizations can cultivate people and team development to align and support an organization’s growth.
The bully in the corner office
I challenge myself to write blogs that might start a conversation either leading to change or to sustain what is working. …
Buy-in is broke
In organization change I always avoid any effort that includes the term: buy-in. You may hear the term in some variation …