As a professional consultant for the past decade, I’ve had a unique front row seat to a diverse set of clients executing a vast array of projects. All have been high stress and important to the enterprise. But something is different in 2010. Employees are busier — and more stressed (I’m actually too busy to [...]
Archive for the ‘Management’ Category
Surviving 2010′s Stressful Work Environment
Posted in Leadership, Management, Project Management, Thought Leadership on April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Successful Projects Are Like Living Organisms
Posted in Information Sharing, Leadership, Management, Project Management, tagged Change Management, Leadership, Process, Project Management, value on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is a statistic often quoted in the business community around the world that two thirds of all projects fail to achieve their intended objectives. Usually, this is followed with a brilliant explanation as to the root cause for why they blow up on the launching pad. Then a promise comes that if we focus [...]
The New Consulting Industry: How to Get More for Less
Posted in Consulting Industry, Management, Project Management, Thought Leadership on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Co-Authored by Jay Stuller — March 5, 2010 In a relatively quiet transformation over the past decade, the management consulting industry came apart and reformed – – in ways that corporate and institutional clients may find useful and even advantageous. For much of the 1980s and 1990s, growth rates in the business often exceeded 20 [...]
Leading Without Formal Authority
Posted in Leadership, Management, Project Management on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leading without authority is a true skill and art — it also might be one of the most valuable skills in the corporate world as the pace of business accelerates and traditional top-down directives dissipate. Whether you’re a manager, a frontline worker, or an independent contractor, at one time or another you’ve surely had to [...]
Change Management — Easy Enough for a Caveman?
Posted in Change Management, Leadership, Management, Thought Leadership on October 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Bender Consulting’s Conference Board Presentation: Engaging the Black Hole of Middle Management Related blog entry by Jay Stuller: While my wife contends I’m an utter sap for expressing misguided sentiment, I have growing empathy for those aggrieved GEICO cavemen, fictional though they may be. My daughter, a rational and well-educated author approaching her mid-30s, also [...]
Now is the time for mergers and acquisitions
Posted in M&A, Management, tagged M&A Support on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now is the time for mergers and acquisitions, as long as you execute properly and do not distract from core business. Research shows that acquisitions completed during and right after recessions generated almost triple the excess returns of acquisitions made during the preceding boom. There will certainly be an increase in M&A activity, and the [...]
Reduce knowledge loss impacts of a “graying workforce” by leveraging new digital technologies
Posted in Information Sharing, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Thought Leadership, tagged knowledge management on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a good blog post discussing how new digital technologies enable talent to learn at a faster pace. Companies facing a graying effect (ex: Oil and Gas industry) should enable and encourage this learning as an opportunity to decrease impacts from knowledge loss.
Is Management a Profession?
Posted in Ethics / Values, Management, Thought Leadership on March 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Is management a profession? Is it a profession in the same way that Medicine or Law is a profession? If it is a profession, why don’t we “govern” it in the same way? Here is a definition of “profession” by Rakesh Kurana, Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. True professions have [...]
25 Stretch Goals for Management
Posted in Change Management, Culture, Ethics / Values, Information Sharing, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Performance Measurement, Process Improvement, Project Management, Thought Leadership, Web 2.0 on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In May 2008, a group of renowned scholars and business leaders gathered in Half Moon Bay, California, with a simple goal: to lay out an agenda for reinventing management in the 21st century. Attendees included progressive CEOs such as Terri Kelly from WL Gore, Vineet Nayar from HCL Technologies, and John Mackey from Whole [...]
Monitoring Web 2.0 to ensure we can help clients navigate change in this new landscape
Posted in Bender Consulting Update, Change Management, Information Sharing, Innovation, Management, Thought Leadership, Web 2.0, tagged Change Management, Web 2.0 on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Web 2.0 technologies are going to begin to change the ways businesses operate, impacting process, org structures, systems and especially employees. Bender Consulting is watching the evolution of these Web 2.0 technologies (wikis / shared workspaces, blogs / podcasts, polling, social networking, RSS feeds, etc) to ensure our consultants understand 1) how to manage change [...]
