What is the difference between a dream and a vision? The dreams you see while asleep at night are a metaphor for the kind of thinking that happens when you fantasize while awake. We often call this "day dreaming" or creative imagination. The vision you see when you are awake and looking at reality with your eyes is a metaphor for the kind of

Improve your accounting and you'll get the good or bad news about how you are performing a little faster and more accurately. Improve your new product development process, and you'll grow faster and make a lot more money. Most choices about what to improve aren't so clear cut as that comparison suggests. For example, how should you choose am

Leadership and teamwork often go hand in hand. Teamwork requires leadership with vision of a clear goal, a flow of strong communication and the inspiration and drive to get the job done. Here are a few techniques to build a cohesive team. Build on collaboration: Individual competition can be detrimental. You do not want competition between

Leadership and teamwork often go hand in hand. Teamwork requires leadership with vision of a clear goal, a flow of strong communication and the inspiration and drive to get the job done. Here are a few techniques to build a cohesive team. Build on collaboration: Individual competition can be detrimental. You do not want competition between

The need for Six Sigma training has arisen following two reasons. One, the demands of industry could not be met with the existing limited quality assurance methods and two, the tremendous financial opportunities for corporations that the 6 sigma methodology is creating of late. Many well-known organizations have developed their own Six Sigma tr

It's easy to assume that what you see is what you get. But what you see may be just the tip of the iceberg (less than five percent of the ice present). It takes an energetic person to dive into that frozen water to verify the unseen potential. Do you have enough fire in your belly to do so? You probably do not yet appreciate is how rapidly ch

A businessman pondered how to grow his profits. He traveled the world looking for new products and lower cost suppliers. He ran every kind of sales promotion he could. But profits just got lower and lower every year. In fact, the harder he tried to improve the worse matters got. A friend visited one day and looked at what the businessman had

I didn't know what making a contribution meant, or what its value was until I finished 7 years of university and college, and was about 3 years into my first real job. I would work day-to-day on a job that gave me incredible work skills and knowledge that I still use today. But it wasn't until someone higher up in the organization empowered me to

Today's fast-moving business environment demands that the effective manager be both a well-organized administrator and highly adept in understanding people's basic needs and behaviour in the workplace. Gaining commitment, nurturing talent, and ensuring employee motivation and productivity require open communication and trust between managers and st

Historically a new-hire moved from learning the required tasks of their particular job to eventually understanding the goals, strengths, and weaknesses of the business in an orderly way - often having as much to do with their getting older as with their getting better, smarter, or more capable. They were then promoted from actually doing the wo

Have you ever encountered a problem only to become stumped trying to come up with a solution? How often have you found yourself saying that there is just no possible answer and you think that you have reached a dead end? From time to time the problems that we are faced with may be so huge that one may feel like they are hammering against a brick

Businesses tend to avoid doing their annual business plan thinking that it is an arduous task that does not accomplish much. Formulating your annual plan is, however, critical to your business success and if done correctly should be quick, easy and generate bottom line results. Rather than creating a business plan that achieves no results, other

In our consulting we believe that we can and will find the solutions to business problems within the organization in which we work. Often we may need to bring in an outside expert to show how others are doing work, but essentially companies have the solution at hand. Its just not acted upon, for a variety of reasons! Have you ever heard of

Have you felt the need for an effective leader in your work place? Have you felt frustrated that there are a lot of activities and yet nothing seems to get accomplished? Targets and objectives are forgotten. Is it then time for you to do something about it? It is quite typical for most people to follow the leader and be content. But maybe you a

In many management situations we find in our consulting and coaching environment we are brought in to solve particular problems. Management and their teams have tried everything they could but like our boiled frog they can't get out of the soup. A consultant is brought in, wearing his bright red cape and carrying a magic wand. After several months'