By Ian D Smith
This is a challenging time to be in business but there lies the opportunity. I’ve listed 10 specific characteristics of downtimes and 10 positive strategies that embrace and capitalize on them.
More time to create a focused business: Use this slower paced market to revisit the business you are in – what [...]
Buyer beware. Ecost today tried another ploy to get you to buy from their site that misleads people. They sent out an email a few minutes ago with the title OUTRAGEOUS: 32in HDTV $139 . Jawbone II $9 . DeLL 1.7GHz Laptop $129. Please.. Pay Attention. They will not be selling you any of those [...]
Don’t limit your success by using an Austin life coach. Expand your search outside of Austin with virtual Intuitive Business Coach Tina Ferguson “The Queen of Dreams”. You have read about her in the Dallas Morning News among other publications. An intuitive life and executive coach brings all the skills of a life coach with [...]
By Ian D Smith
Acquisitions just don’t work. Research over the last 20 years has concluded that somewhere between 50% to 85% of acquisitions fail in the eyes of the acquirer! Do you have a process map for buying companies? Here is a six phase process that will improve the odds in favor of successful [...]
By Ian D Smith
Whether you are a CEO of a start-up driving towards your first order or a regional sales manager striving to hit your 2009 sales target – sales are everything in today’s tough markets. My recent gig, leading the turnaround and double digit growth of the software group, Teamstudio over the last [...]
By Jay Forte
We are in a period of massive change as our economy moves from the skill-focused industrial age to today’s talent-focused intellectual age. Yesterday’s manufactured products have moved offshore and have been replaced by today’s networked and thinking service economy. We made things; we now collaborate to make ideas. Everything about this process [...]
Written By Stephen Billing
The great insight from social constructionism is that we are not independent isolates, our reality is constructed with others as a social phenomenon.
It can be very helpful to keep this in mind when you are dealing with people who are (or seem to be) resistant to change. In order to dissolve the [...]
Written By Stephen Billing
I really think that sponsors of change projects, project managers of change projects, those involved in change project teams, business unit managers, and consultants like me all have a big problem on our hands.
Even though you may plan the project well, sign off on the risk and issues registers, conduct steering group [...]
Written By Tom Philp
In December 2008, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that the U.S. economy is officially in a recession. No doubt you felt the effects long before the economists stated the obvious, and by now those effects have penetrated deep into your organization. And while the experts indicate the recession will [...]
By Yvonne Bleakley
Most of us start at the bottom of the career ladder and work our way up. We become so proficient at our job, earning respect of the management and becoming a valued member of our team. Eventually promotion is offered, usually within the same team and we can find ourselves leader of the [...]
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