If you are like me, I begin each new year with energy and commitment to achieve the objectives I set for myself. We often call these resolutions. You might have set resolutions like eating healthier, making regular trips to the gym, preparing for a promotion or growing your business. But those resolutions infamously fall to the wayside after only a few weeks or months. Why is that?
Read MoreCulture is everything for many family businesses. In fact, the culture is often what makes a family business special. Inevitably, the need to grow and change can feel at odds with the culture that in some cases dates back 100 years.
Read More“This is how we do things around here” is a frequent refrain in many family-run businesses. Some of these businesses have been around for decades, if not centuries, and have been successful. And it IS how they do things and it works, so why question it? Why change?
Read MoreGiven the seismic changes over the last three years, we ask the question - where are we in terms of progress enabling women in the workforce? The headline – based on a recent study by Lean In and McKinsey - we’re in the midst of what they coin “the Great Breakup”.
Read MoreThis article originally appeared on the NACD Boardtalk blog on January 10, 2023. Reprinted with permission.
For better or worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has served as an incredible catalyst for business change. All businesses have been forced to transform to a greater or lesser extent to meet new market realities. As the economy recovers from crisis, the rationale for transformation is shifting.
Read MoreManufacturing companies are essential to both our economy and communities. And because of that, many smaller and mid-sized businesses have been able to coast on the ways they have always done things. They have been successful for decades doing what they have always done.
Read MoreImagine this: You and your team have defined an exciting vision for the organization and a strategy to take you there. It’s bigger than anything you’ve done before and while you’re excited about creating this future, getting there and delivering will require changing mindsets and behaviors.
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