Management Consulting

John Brekke is one of the nation's most veteran executive coaches. He has worked with the top executives in some of the world's most prestigious companies including 3M, General Growth Properties, Pfizer, Wells Fargo, Cigna, and Honeywell. But this was not always so. John spent much of his youth working on a farm in Northern Minnesota plowing, seeding, and bailing hay. Under the tutelage of his Uncle George he learned about more than just farming, he learned about life.

Was macht einen guten Unternehmer aus? Wie denkt und handelt er? Wo liegt der Schlüssel zum Erfolg? Mit unverstelltem Blick und frischer Denke haben Simone und Jochen Stargardt charismatische Unternehmer aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum analysiert und befragt, deren Erfolgsprinzipien ergründet und in diesem Buch auf den Punkt gebracht. Herausgekommen sind sieben Grundsätze, die Top-Eigenschaften der Profis.

This is a story of my experience living in Costa Rica during the pandemic and observing what was happening around the world. We will cover my Change Management methodology Stop, Prepare, Act, which we will use to analyze changes that happened during the pandemic, but we will also practice using your real-life example.

日本の会社の99％以上を占める中小企業。その中でも小規模企業のIT化は遅れている。IT化の遅れの大きな要因としてIT投資不足と経営者のITへの認識不足がある。

This audible book reviews nine essential leadership qualities designed to encourage, up and coming, leaders as to their mission and purpose of leadership, which is to strengthen others. I speak of leadership from both the business and church perspective.

Inspired Manufacturing Leadership answers the question of how to systematically incorporate Kaizen, metric management, problem solving, people development, culture change, and many more improvement efforts into one cohesive system of implementation. It reveals to leaders how to effectively and systematically challenge all processes having them to become predictable and repeatable. Once implemented, it facilitates the achievement of breakthrough results.

Any manager is only as good as his or her team. I'm pretty sure that we've all heard this before. However, that leaves us in a bit of a bind - more often than not we are just handed a team and told the make the most of them. However, it turns out that over time we have the ability to reshape and mold our team based on who we choose to add and remove from it. Learning how to do this the right way is what can determine the ultimate success of a manager.

All too often CIOs can get caught up in all of the technical details of the job: boosting uptime, replacing servers, guarding against cyber criminals, etc. What we tend to forget is that IT exists to serve the rest of the business and they are there (in most cases) to make money. This means that there needs to be a business side to IT and that is one of a CIO's key responsibilities.

At the heart of being a CIO is the responsibility to manage an entire department of technical professionals. It is your job to provide an overall direction for the department to move in and when problems arise, and they always do, you are going to have to work with your staff in order to create solutions.

As an IT manager, one of your most valuable possessions is your career. At your firm, you are the only person who is going to be spending any time worrying about your career: how's it going, what is your next step, what could you be doing better? These are all vital questions for you to be able to answer if you want to advance in your career.

Project Management: Influence and Leadership includes three proven fundamentals to unlock the secrets of leadership, influence, and stakeholder communication management! Imagine that you master the magic of influence and are able to successfully lead and manage stakeholders. Imagine that you have a clear path of how to accomplish it.

Every company wants to grow and become more successful. There is no magic formula to make this happen, but it is generally agreed that in order for this to happen the company cannot stand still. Instead, they always have to be trying new things and growing.

Isn't technology a wonderful thing? As CIO you are in charge of one of the most technologically sophisticated parts of the company. It's very easy to fill your days dealing with issues regarding servers, networks, routers, switches, firewalls, etc. However, it turns out that if you do this, then you'll be overlooking one of the most important tasks that a CIO needs to accomplish: communication. This book has been written in order to show you what you need to be doing in order to get your message out.

As an IT manager you understand the value of technology. It's what provides our teams with the tools that we can use to accomplish great things for our company. The challenge that we run into is that technology is always changing. This means that as an IT manager you have a responsibility to stay on top of all of the various technologies that your team will be called on to make use of.

Leadership is one of those things that we all think that we know what it is, but we are hard pressed to describe it to someone if they ask us. This makes picking the next generation of leaders that much harder. We want them to have the leadership skills that we know that they need, but how can we make sure that they have them? Some IT managers revert to using the time-tested trial-by-fire approach, but is this really the best way?

En la raíz de los problemas específicos de cualquier empresa subyace la dinámica de la asignación del reconocimiento y la culpa. En muchas oficinas la gente siente que está en medio de un juego de alto riesgo en el que puede "culpar o ser culpado", y en el que tiene que luchar no solo por hacer un buen trabajo, sino por conseguir el crédito que merece por hacerlo. La dificultad radica en que muchas empresas fomentan una cultura de la culpa.

I happen to think that being a product manager is one of the best jobs out there. I find it to be very satisfying because I'm in charge of the success of a product. If I do the right things, then my product will be selected by a large number of customers and it will solve their problems. If I don’t do my job right, my company will probably decide to stop offering my product after a while. Ultimately, my career is in my hands.

As the world has become more and more digital, the importance of the role of a CIO within a firm has increased. No longer can CIOs be content to focus exclusively on technical topics. Instead, we now have to consider what the company's goals are and how technology can be used to help the company achieve those goals.

Nichts ist schmerzlicher als zu beobachten, wie sich Führungs- und Leitungsverantwortliche abmühen und dennoch keine oder nur marginale Gefolgschaft bei den von ihnen Geführten gewinnen. Im Gegenteil, die Geführten verweigern ihre Gefolgschaft. Strategien, Visionen, Ziele und Strukturen werden im Kreise der Führenden aufwendig erarbeitet. Alles ist durchdacht, jetzt müsste es doch funktionieren?! Doch das Ergebnis stellt sich nicht ein. Die Geführten trauen ihren Führern nicht!

Every company wants to grow and become more successful. There is no magic formula to make this happen, but it is generally agreed that in order for this to happen the company cannot stand still. Instead, they always have to be trying new things and growing. In an IT team, in order to make this kind of growth occur, innovation has to be encouraged to happen. All too often the workers on the team can get too involved in their day-to-day tasks to spend any time thinking about innovation. That's where the IT manager has to step in.