Case Histories

The Maverick Approach to management was put aside some time ago as being disruptive and unproductive.

Disrespect of an organization’s culture and thus, of the people in it, is one of the prime causes for failures in mergers and acquisitions. 

Look at the executives in your organization. Do you really want to be like them?

Second generation owners of family owned firms face a tremendous challenge. In stepping up, John Junior lost sight of the fundamental ingredients of his father’s success.

Meeting-itis causes a great deal of stress without producing many results.

Issuing a PO to a supplier is not the beginning of the procurement process; it is the mid-point.

There is absolutely no point whatever in doing any kind of work session, especially involving business planning if there is no follow-up. 

Training is not implementation. Giving people the skills without giving them the context in which to perform will negate the training effort.

The senior management team of the company all nodded their heads sagely, when presented with the initial business case for proceeding.

Third party neutrality can be beneficial when the people involved in a change are too close to it to understand its dynamics.

It’s one thing to prepare a Business Plan; it’s quite another to deploy it throughout an organization. 

Whenever a senior executive inside an organization behaves badly, it makes it very difficult on everyone. Few executives are aware of the profound influence that they have on the organizations they lead and on the people within them.