To survive and prosper in what is being referred to as the “shift

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Starting a group venture on a solid foundation, demands the presence of

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LEARNING TO FACE THE  TIGERS IN YOUR LIFE IS A PRIMARY LEADERSHIP STRATEGY

When using the Baton Management System, Quick Response Teams meet to come up with ideas for solving specific problems. We us Dr. John Scherer’s STRIPES model. It builds on sage advise from India on what to do should you meet a tiger on the trail.  Sage advice:Run from a tiger and you are dead meet.Standing your ground increases the odds of survival...

The “shift-age” is ushering in fierce competition for market

While beta testing a management system designed to help SMB owners create transferable wealth and wisdom,  I worked with several smaller companies who were offering customers a boutique experience. Many of these owners were reluctant to fully embrace process-discipline. They preferred operating with the flexibility of a jazz band (playing by ear)...

Outdated thinking and habits, remnants of the Industrial-age, are causing

serious problems in many organizations—often unbeknown to CEOs and their management teams.  The crux of the problem is depending too heavily on yesterday’s knowledge and experience.  A more suitable alternative in this turbulent world (herein referred to as the “Shift...

If your competitor becomes process disciplined while you continue operating

traditionally, odds are they will eventually eat your lunch (shrink your market share and profit).  Organizing people for work using industrial-age concepts such as a departmental structure, the traditional chain of command, or relying exclusively on the personal authority...

Many companies are trying to get and retain customers using an outdated

playbook.   The dominant factors determining corporate success cross traditional departmental functions.  Sales, service, and profit engage the entire company—there is no logical argument for the preservation of independent organizational silos.  Success is determined by...

It’s impossible to manage your way through the “shift-age”.  Behavioral

   “To manage” implies working within existing boundaries and constraints to make what exists more productive.  Working harder at the same old things in the same old way, is a losing proposition–designed for the slower moving and more predictable industrial-age.   Today’s winners will be those  first to discern and  act...

Industrial age organizations operate using a chain of command structure

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 Innovative technologies and new management processes come and go, but

the principles of effective leadership have remained constant throughout the ages.  That’s because they are founded on timeless truths regarding what goes on within and between people.  Management science has given us a never ending stream of valuable ideas, tools and processes...