The power of Focusing

Managers are supposed to be leading the areas they are responsible for in two key activities:  Day-to-day ensuring existing commitments are effectively and efficiently met  Improvement – Leading the efforts of becoming better in the ability to meet commitments   There is one challenge, that is grossly underestimated in respect to these two responsibilities, this […]

The 3 Guidelines ensuring that your change initiative are successful

Every improvement is a change, but not every change is an improvement. I assume everyone has accumulated sufficient experience to know that fact. Nevertheless, organizations (and in organizations I actually mean management) continues to choose change, in the same exact way that results with only 30% of the changes leading to actual improvements.   One […]

Your Key Performance Indicator

This post is dealing with “for profit” organizations (although may very well appeal to others as well). Top management of these organizations is supposed to be leading them to continuously and consistently increase their revenues, profit and profitability while at the same time ensure their sustainability (thus adding to the profit/profitability commitment, commitments to other […]

Protect your cash, and it will protect you

One of the slogans I very much believe in says – “When you have enough cash nothing is important, when you do not have enough cash nothing else is important“. In the constant chase for growth and profits, it seems that cash situation does not receive the respect it deserves. At least not before the […]