Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down

The Mind Map About Mind Mapping

"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." Napoleon Hill

"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age." Albert Einstein

Linchpin

                                                                


                                                                    

Career development is one of the most important topics in life. Ironically, most universities do not have a subject on developing a successful and exciting career. I am not talking about training courses for interviews and resume writing. I am talking about building a bright career future. Graduates often need to make hard decisions in deciding which companies they should work for, which positions they should apply for, which additional courses they should study, how long they should stay with the companies etc.

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." Coco Chanel

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it." Nathaniel Hawthorne

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour." Jim Rohn

List of the sixteen mistakes entrepreneurs do not have to make from John Osher

John Osher is a very successful entrepreneur in America. He found numbers of new ventures in different industries: earrings, antique fashion, energy conservation products, baby products, toys and toothbrushes. Millions of dollar is earned from these companies. He shares a list of 16 mistakes which entrepreneurs should not make from his experience in a Harvard Business School case study.  

Core Values and Organizational Change (Theory and Practice)

                                                                         


Adapting market environment is becoming more and more important for business survival in this turbulent climate.  Unfortunately, organizations very often face a lot of challenges when adjustingtheir operations in order to cope with the competitive environment.  Most of these challenges are emotional, rather than technical issues.  In reality, new strategic or operation plans can be very logical and business sound on paper, human factors can still tear these plans apart. Therefore, change processes are very complex and dynamic activities with unpredictable outcomes.

A book titled Core Values and Organizational Change Theory and Practice provides very compelling arguments and systemic methods to tackle the human issues during change processes. The book starts from highly academic arguments about the philosophies of business management: modernism, status quo thinking and postmodernism.  These three philosophies have a fundamental impact on how a management may approach the change processes as shown below: