Even senior managers are confused on how to make their numbers, their financial targets, because of marketplace changes, customer concerns, and organizational transformations. Traditionally, senior management, at the vice presidential or business unit level, would operate autonomously but now must collaborate and operate as part of a team. Brand U CEOs have discovered that the …
Jesus is great for business? What a counterintuitive idea? Many people are saying the life and teachings of Jesus are filled with wisdom and applicable to the business world. Brand U management principles found in Jesus’ life include: Choose your own associates Pull out all stops to fill a key spot Teach Praise publicly those …
Some say Brand U leadership is more transcendental than situational. The argument goes something like this. When change is constant, customers must be pleased and organizational transformations become common place. Charismatic and value based leadership can inspire people to accept change, consistently operate above expectations and to push the boundaries of past performance. We’re finding …
Women are entering senior management in unprecedented numbers not through affirmative action but through excelling at Brand U work. A common myth about women executives was they excelled chiefly as nurturers and team players, while male executives excelled because they were proficient at problem solving and other logic based activities. Whoa…! This myth is being …
Every company’s goal is to encourage Brand U’s to ‘wow’ external customers. Suppliers are encouraged to work closely with manufacturers. Instead of looking to Marketing or Sales as the focus of all customer activities and opportunities, there are now multiple points of customer contact and support. In one company, production people communicate directly with customers …
Andy Grove of Intel and Bill Gates of Microsoft are the major voices of high-tech values and success. Both believe that fear of complacency and stagnation is good for business and good for people. Fear provides the mechanisms for overcoming inertia and for stimulating forward movement. Grove’s ideas are heresy in the politically charged world, …
When a major organizational change hits, there are three types of people: Supporters 10% Fence sitters 60% Resisters 30%
“Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person – hard-working and competent but otherwise mediocre – into an outstanding performer.”[i] [i] Drucker, Peter, “Managing Oneself,” Harvard Business Review, March-April, …
How close are we connected and being driven by technology? We’re all now multi-tasking. Multitasking is a computer term referring to a computer that can run different programs simultaneously. But, that’s what we are doing at work and in our leisure time. “Inundated with more information than ever before and – perhaps perversely – prone …
“With Spain under pressure to conform to the shorter lunch break habits in most of the 14 other countries in the European Union, its traditional workday – with its three-hour siesta break to eat and sleep – is disappearing.” Why? The siesta is a big issue in Spain because the midday snooze is another example of …