When Good Employees Go Bad

One of the experiments I have conducted over the last few years was to see whether it was possible to ‘turn’ around employees that has lost their motivation and their drive.   I had a number of cases, where, for one reason or another, I had felt responsible...

Collaboration Tools

Collaboration tools, such as SharePoint, Google Docs, wikis, are designed to allow your staff, employees and eventually suppliers and consultants to work more efficiently.   Collaboration systems are enablers – they software themselves don’t organize your business,...

Coasting

One viable option of a business, is to coast.  Coasting, in my definition, is the time when the owners of the business decide that they would rather NOT grow, and would like the business to stay at a certain size.   By size, I imply the number of employees instead of...

Growth

 As a company grows there exists a unique problem and that is on how to remain fast and mobile, yet be able to control the organization.    When a business starts – its usually found with a few people – tight and controlled.   The founder or founders can manager and...