NEED SAVINGS? … DON’T JUST CUT COSTS It’s an all-too familiar scenario: Company leaders, alarmed at a sudden decrease in profits, issue a decree to curb business trips, count paper clips, or trim headcounts. They’re clearly thinking that the quickest way to boost...
The secret to your success—transforming your workers into winners Have you ever envisioned your dream team? Fantasized about having employees who always knock it out of the park when it comes to productivity, achieving goals and exceeding quotas? If so, you’re not...
Uncertainty and hardship can arise at any minute, so you need to prioritize diagnosing and fixing underperformance—because while underperformance hurts in good economic times, it’s absolutely devastating during a downturn. Survival—and the potential for your business...
Outperform competitors, outperform yourself Too many companies struggle to achieve high performance. Many more struggle to sustain it. While they set organizational goals or attempt to implement new processes or initiatives that improve their performance, the...
Imagine you are in a lab. You have an unmarked bottle of chemicals you know are harmless, so you set the bottle down on a table, intending to get back to it later. Before you do, a co-worker stumbles onto the unmarked bottle. How will they know what to do? You know...
Let’s face it. For all of our talk about the importance of data, we’re still “data dumb,” meaning we collect the wrong data, let our data collect dust, or fail to interpret it correctly. Many companies gather data only to share it with a few people instead of using it...