A big part of business strategy consulting is teaching the executive leadership about the planning process. The three keystones to planning are creating a strategy, building a plan, and identifying and implementing accountability. Many business leaders believe that the business strategy and the business plan are the same thing. This is a misconception that gets [...]
Today I found myself using words with a friend that I usually reserve for clients: “You have two choices–be intentional and deliberate or continue to play the victim.” My friend works for a large corporation which is known for having a poor employee environment. She continues to allow herself to be ‘abused in the workplace’ [...]
Earlier this week while I was sitting in downtown Austin, I witnessed a bizarre and unfortunate accident. The driver of an 18-wheeler, making a right turn, did not see the car sitting in the right lane, which was also planning a right turn. The truck ran over the car! The woman driving the car was [...]
Anybody who knows me knows that I can talk. I often laugh that I am still making up for lost time. You see, I had a speech impediment as a child that prevented me from speaking understandably for many years. My parents still tell stories of my attempts to communicate with them in which I [...]
It is not uncommon for a management consultant to identify inefficiencies during a client’s operations assessment. However, lately I have met with several companies that have identified their own inefficiencies and chosen not to correct the identified problems. Out of curiosity I reviewed the costs of inefficiencies in Wikipedia. It is defined as “Productive inefficiency [...]
