Managing Change

You Too Can Be Wonderful!

There are some high-profile leadership races happening in the world this month. Chavez and Capriles, Barack and Mitt, Justin versus Pierre’s legacy: lately, I can’t help but notice that these leadership races, more than ever, resemble the ones we had in school: hyped-up campaigns funded by popularity and persona.

It’s all about charisma these days. And increasingly, corporate leaders face similar pressure to be the “image” and not just the substance of their organizations. With this in mind, we need to investigate what makes the charismatic leadership style so powerful.

Be Gone Fraudulent Dictators! The Need for Integrity in Leadership

Have you heard the expression “Be your brand”? It’s the new “Practice what you preach”.

It’s not enough to be a manager and brandish your authority like a scepter: in order to accomplish our goals, we have to lead by example. If we don’t believe in our own message, we can’t expect others to commit themselves to its success.

Leaders are Role Models:

Are You Focused on Your Core Competencies?

What are your customers looking for? They want the best quality, on-time delivery and the best price for what you provide to them. They want an easy-to-do-business relationship. And if you can't deliver this, there is someone else out there that can. That is one of the biggest differences in today's world: your customers are more enlightened and knowledgeable than ever before.

Finding Balance to Achieve Greater Performance in Changing Times

We’ve all heard the message that change is inevitable; it is growth that is optional. Let’s face it Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore. The day of stable, predictable business has gone by the wayside. To thrive or survive is about embracing change and not to accept the status quo.

Change - Are You Agile?

I was reading an article the other day on budgeting for 2013 and the author was talking about the need to keep the IT budget flexible because many Executives are anticipating a recession or worse in 2013. The reason for the expected downturn is Europe and all of its financial woes. I’m not sure that this will come to pass, but then I’m not sure it won’t. Today nobody knows what tomorrow holds. When we are playing in a global economy there are so many factors that now impact us like never before.

Change - Learn to Love Learning

What is one of the scariest aspects of change? Having what you know and are comfortable with become obsolete. If you think about it, most of our fear boils down to this. If we know what the future is going to be like and we have a comfort level about being able to participate and contribute in that environment then we are more relaxed about the future and what it holds. When we don’t know what to expect or we know that we don’t have the knowledge at this time to participate in that future we become anxious about the future.

Change, Stop Fighting It

Are you one of those individuals that doesn’t like change? Do you resist it, fight it, hope it will go away? Are you waiting for things to return to normal?

5 Ways to Cope with Change

If you feel that things are speeding up you are not alone. Is this reality or just perception? Perception is reality. Time really isn't changing but the rate of change is and therefore it feels like things are speeding up. This new rate of change is the new constant. I don't believe we are going to return to the old comfortable pace of 3, 5, 10 years ago.

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