Complacency is the sense of security and comfort that derives from the belief that the business success that’s taken place in the past will continue indefinitely.
Category Archives: Culture Change
Arrogance – Pride before the fall | Business Culture
When companies rise to excellence, they often unwittingly develop self-destructive habits that eventually undermine their success. Just as with people, such habits are learned and not innate parts of their business culture. Sometimes they get worse over time, and thus become addictions; however, they can be broken and overcome
Culture change: A roadmap for cultural change
Culture Change: WGA’s 4Rs™ culture change roadmap. A tightly integrated academic and proven methodology successfully used by the Fortune 500.
Operational Excellence: Lessons from the field
WGA enables Global Oil & Gas client achieve and sustain operational cost reduction of -13% or $312M/year through Operational Excellence
Case Study: Is Sustainable Change an oxymoron?
Is Sustainable Change an oxymoron? Would it be change if it was ‘sustained’ and didn’t change? Obviously change is a disciple. Change is a culture.
Disciplining Bad Managers and Keeping Employees
Learning how to disciplining bad managers is a critical to retaining key employees and fostering a high-performance culture. So what are your choices: a) yell and scream b) ignore them, maybe they will change. c) shake your finger in their face and tell them you will “write them up”. Answer: None of the above. Disciplining […]
Case Study: Learning to Fail, Innovation and a Culture of Learning
For many companies, reaching a high level of innovation and success does not come immediately. Many of them need a “come from behind” strategy in order to be market leaders. Others need to hit the depths of failure before they can rise up Phoenix-like and reach new heights of success.
Your Employees Are Not Mind Readers
As a leader, what do you want to accomplish? Do your employees know what needs to be done to reach that objective?
Mastering Leadership, by Design
Amazon lists 89,461 books on Leadership, of which, 413 of them are for “Dummies”. After completing several leadership development workshops with various Fortune 200 clients recently, I realized that many companies are lacking a simple and clear understanding of what makes a good leader.
Overcoming Business Change Failures
Overcoming Business Change Failures. When change is mismanaged…Over 54% of projects and up to 87% of business transformation initiatives fail