Management Consulting

Olympic athletes structure their lives for a single moment of intense competition. They train relentlessly, they eat intentionally, and their daily actions are focused on producing the optimal effort for a single moment in time. Why don’t organizations take this same approach with their employees? The goal of any leader is to get the optimal effort out of their team, therefore the leader’s focus must be on creating the ideal conditions for their team.

When we sit down to negotiate, we are really entering into a very specialized conversation with the other side of the table. We have a set of goals and they have their own set of goals. The purpose of the negotiation conversation is to find out if there is a way that the needs of both sides of the table can be met.

Who was it that said "It takes a village…"? They may not have been talking about being a product manager, but they might as well have been. Life has become so complex that product managers can no longer make their product a success just by their own efforts. Today it takes the help of one or more partners to get your product to where it needs to be. Are you going to be ready to work with those partners?

If your business is not earning profits you will soon be out of business. In The Profit Machine, author Larry Earnhart shows you what it takes to turn your business into a profit making machine. Find out how to put Profit as the goal of your business driving all other aspects of your operation. Learn how to transform your business into the business you always dreamed it could be.

Twenty-first-century leadership skills from the frontlines.

It turns out that most negotiations are over even before they begin. The legal team that has spent the most time planning for the negotiation, doing their homework, and collecting the data that they'll need is the one that's going to walk away from the table with the best deal. Wouldn't you want that legal team to be your team?

During a negotiation a lot of promises and agreements are made by both sides of the table. This is all well and good, but the ultimate goal of any negotiation is for both sides to agree on a deal that they can live with. As a negotiator, it's going to be your job to take a look at where things stand in the negotiation and then package up the agreements so that they can be included in the final deal.

Kritik zu geben ist eine delikate Angelegenheit - sie anzunehmen auch. Doch nur selten gelingt es, dass Kritik gut formuliert und auch gut angenommen wird. Im Gegenteil. Im Zusammenleben stellen beide Seiten, das Geben und das Nehmen von Kritik für viele, ja vielleicht sogar die Mehrzahl der Menschen, ein echtes Problem dar. Was wäre, wenn Kritik nicht nur wichtig, sondern sogar notwendig wäre im Leben? Was wäre, wenn Menschen, Organisationen und Unternehmen, Kirchen, Gemeinden, Werke und Einrichtungen Kritik benötigen wie die Luft zum Atmen, damit sie zudem werden können, was sie nach ihrer Berufung sein sollten?

Many successful managers want to transition from management to leadership—but have no idea how. This book provides a well-lit pathway—a paradigm—for transforming yourself from manager to leader. By implementing 23 time-tested and easy-to-remember truths, managers can become leaders. These wisdoms are grouped into six core competencies that every leader-to-be must master: Focusing, Leading, Actioning, Philosophizing, Learning, and Caring.

In the Wisdom Lunch Warrior, 21st century coaching specialist and leadership consultant Rod Olson, once again offers a leadership fable that is gripping and instructive as his highly acclaimed first book, The Legacy Builder. This time, he uses his unique storytelling power to help us learn cutting edge insights on how to motivate today's iY generation and the secrets of developing a mature successful leader in today's world. 

Modern multigenerational nursing cohorts come with their own unique challenges, but they can also be leveraged to retain staff and increase organizational effectiveness. The key, according to organizational psychology practitioner Dr. April L. Jones, PhD, is to identify and work with each generation's unique values and work ethic.

As the CIO of your company, it's your job to stay on top of all of the different forms of technology that the company uses to accomplish its business goals. This task is made even harder by all of the changes that are always occurring in the various technology fields. As the CIO you need to be understand how to pick the correct type of database to be used on projects. You need to watch the rollout of other large-scale IT projects and learn from them: what went right and what went wrong.

This amazing practical book will help you uncover the magic of powerful teams. Creating a strong bond between team members can be elusive, whether in small or large endeavors, at work or in your personal life. But in Effective teams: Six Secrets of Powerful Teams, team management expert Michael Nir will strip away the mystery and teach you concrete methods that make team management easier for you and more rewarding for everyone concerned.

When we enter into a negotiation, we simply don't know everything that we need to know. What this means for us is that we've got to use the negotiation to do some exploring - we've got to get answers to the questions that are unanswered when we start.

There are a number of different ways to make yourself more powerful in a negotiation. Bringing a team to the table is one way to go about doing this, but there are advantages and disadvantages to doing it. Not all negotiations are done by ourselves. If we choose to bring in a professional negotiator to do our dirty work for us, then we're going to need to know how to find out if they truly know their stuff.

This book is framed around two questions: "What creates new futures?" and "How can you and your team or your family co-create the best possible future?" The author has had the privilege of teaching in countries all over the world and helping senior executive teams re-gear and reinvigorate some of the most admired companies in business today.

When you find yourself in a leadership position, you'll want to make the most of it. This means that you want to be viewed as being both powerful and effective. In order to make this happen, you need to have a good understanding of what leadership is really all about.

Ever hire someone who seemed to be rock star in the interview only to find them substandard on the job? It happens frequently. Most managers have never received any formal training or instruction in how to structure an interview or how to select the best qualified candidate. This book introduces a four-step process, EPIC Interviewing, that provides hiring managers with a rock-solid roadmap making great selection decisions.

How your next negotiation is going to turn out will be determined by how you open the negotiation. No matter if the other side is a push-over or a tough customer, you are going to have to decide how you want the negotiation to start and then you are going to have to take steps to make it happen.

What a great world this would be if only we could sit down at a negotiating table, have both sides make a few concessions and then we'd suddenly have the deal that we were all hoping to be able to reach. Sadly, getting that perfect deal takes a great deal more effort on both sides.