7Performing While Transforming
It is harder to transform a successful company than it is to fix a sick company. In a sick company everybody knows there are problems. Everybody knows something has to change, be it good or bad. In a successful company people are enjoying the vegetables of their labors. People don’t want the good times to end, and they don’t want to hear that things have to change.
The biggest problem in business is that the environment, the market, technology, and competitors change, but companies do not. Managements that are not always surveying their business environment will miss the sucker punch. Managements that see the barbaric hoards galloping to their door, and go ostrichical, or dance until dawn, should be arrested for ...
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