Evolving Companies ~ Assess Complexity: Simplify before a period of growth. Complexity will slow down or even stagnate growth. Simplicity brings clarity and makes change faster and easier to execute. Simplicity increases your agility. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess Complexity

Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Leadership: Certain leaders can grow but others can’t. When growing your organizations, include staff changes and succession planning. Else you’ll be forced to replace staff under often tenuous circumstances. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Leadership

Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Investment: Things always seem simple in our minds and in the plan. Be cautions and thorough, not optimistic. Growth will take life of its own and often unpredictable so make your plan very scalable. Include plan B, C, D, E, and F with F being the exit plan. Continue reading Evolving Companies ~ Assess the Investment

Transformational Leader doesn’t attack internal politics. S/He skillfully exposes them. Bringing them into plain light is often the most effective way of dealing with them. S/He never takes them at face value. They are as complex as people connected to them. Continue reading Transformational Leaders exposes internal politics

Transformational Leader uses their authority only when necessary. S/He understands top-down change often carries casualties. Organic change carries victors. Continue reading Transformational Leader uses authority only when necessary

Transformational Leader does not create ripples of change by throwing a huge rock nor by continuously applying pressure throught the same chain of authority. S/He strategicaly facilitates organic change in key regions of organization to create larger ripple effects. Continue reading Transformational Leader’s large ripple effects