2017 August

Three Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot, Part II: The Avalanche

By triumphus|2017-08-31T13:53:12+00:00August 31st, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|

The Business Storm Cycle is never still; like all cycles, it’s constantly turning. If you’ve weathered your first rapid-growth Tornado, in which your people and resources were stretched to the breaking point, you probably wondered when this crazy phase of expansion would stop. Now, as the Avalanche of shrinking margins and overstocked inventory hits, it has. As it turns out, it doesn’t matter all that much which side of the Business Storm Cycle you are [...]

Three Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot, Part I: In The Tornado

By triumphus|2017-08-24T14:00:13+00:00August 24th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|

No matter where you are in what I call the Business Storm Cycle, as a leader you’ve got to lead—even when the way ahead looks foggy. But even experienced leaders can be blindsided by what comes at them in the cycle—and can make mistakes that will make the phase they’re in that much rougher or even prove fatal to their business. If you’re hip-deep in the hypergrowth phase I call the Tornado, your company’s expansion [...]

Telecommuting Takes Alignment

By triumphus|2017-08-18T18:38:46+00:00August 18th, 2017|Categories: Business|

How big a deal is telecommuting? Bigger by the day, especially if you’re working for or running a large company. And as business leaders and employees get more comfortable with the idea that telecommuters can be highly productive working from home, it’s going to get even bigger. Global Workplace Analytics’ research finds that: 50% of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with at least partial telework and approximately 20–25% of the workforce teleworks [...]

Are You A Tech Wreck?

By triumphus|2017-08-10T18:27:51+00:00August 10th, 2017|Categories: Business Consolidation|

You may be, if you don’t understand the defining differences between how your employees interact with your IT and how your customers interact with your IT. In the first instance, your employees are tasked with understanding your IT system and how to use it. They’ve most likely been trained on how to harness it to make processes and workload flow smoothly. They may even have been a part of the developmental process in its design [...]

Five Common Business-Breaking Leadership Errors

By triumphus|2017-08-04T13:36:53+00:00August 4th, 2017|Categories: Business|

We all see those stories in the business publications: once-promising enterprises, whose dynamic leader was the subject of profiles in success just a few months back, suddenly going belly up and closing their doors. Oftentimes there’s a kind of witch hunt mentality in these stories. Whose fault was it? Where can the blame be laid? That same formerly celebrated business leader suddenly looks like a fraud and a failure – but even the smartest business [...]