As a leader, you are only as good as the people you lead.  So it’s up to you to make the people around you better.  You need to help them develop themselves, so that they’re smarter, more capable—and ultimately better at doing what needs to be done, like achieving your organization’s goals.  What’s the best way to help the people around you be the best they can be?

Writing Policies and Procedures

I know it may sound obvious, but the truth is you know how you want your organization to run. 

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Our current article series involves innovative leadership, and we cannot really cover the topic of innovative leadership without touching on the concept of organizational culture.  In fact, sometimes organizational leadership and organizational culture are called two sides of the same coin. 

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The New Year is here (almost) and it’s time to roll out your strategy for the coming year. We started last year by looking at organizational leadership. This year we’ll look at how leaders lead by weaving strategy into their business. 

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Last week we discussed management leadership as not settling for less and introduced inventory turns as a critical performance metric. This week let’s explore an even more important set of metrics

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Welcome to the New Year. The New Year is the time for leadership to step up and chart the course for the year ahead.

Leaders motivate others by defining goals, setting standards, and determining the minimum acceptable performance. In other words, leadership is a self fulfilling prophesy. It’s about

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Part 2 of a four-Part Series

Last week we discussed Information Technology. This week we will discuss Information Deployment or the quality of the business processes and their associated information interactions that are delivered over the technology. We are talking about how you create,

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Part 1 of a four-Part Series

A new month is upon us and so it’s time for a new topic – IT or Information Technology. Yes, it’s a technology driven world out there. Given the current accounting changes due to such things as Sarbanes Oxley, you will eventually have to

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Part 4 of a four-Part Series

Last week we discussed the organizational structure (span of control and product-flow alignment) that leads to the foundation required for successful process improvement programs. This week we are going to look at

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Part 3 of a four-Part Series

In the last article we discussed organizational structure with a focus on span of control and how it relates to employee competence, real or perceived. Your span of control is simply the number of employees that report to you directly. Competent workers should have little need for managers to guide them. So, span of control is

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Part 2 of a four-Part Series

In the previous article we discussed the organizational design principles that lead to the foundation required for successful process improvement programs. This week we are going to look at Organizational Structure — your Org Chart.

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