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Are you all prepared for the worst of times? How many organizations are well equipped to manage crisis today? The truth is that, even if there is a ‘fool proof’ system, corporate excellence comes with vulnerability. There is no escaping, even if you are the mightiest of all. The bigger you get, the tentacles of collapse can engulf you-more like you are targeted at the perils of ‘slow ruin’.  Being the king of the industry now can’t boast of an unchallenged future. Many of the multinationals, more than half of them which Forbes magazine called as ‘great companies’ since 1995 have suffered precipitous decline in the last 15 years.  Seventy percent of the Fortune 500 companies listed in the year 1955 are now extinct. Of the companies on the 1979 Fortune 500 list, 40 percent no l...

There is only growing business or dying business. There is nothing called a matured business. Everything is evolving and constantly changing including businesses, markets and consumers.  Growth starts with a point of view and it often takes place when you stand up for a courageous idea supported with a solid strategy.             Strategy starts with understanding the difference between what you offer to customer through your business and what really customers want, which often turn out to be not the same in most cases.            You need to be alert in figuring out, what’s going on around you. What’s happening to your market place? How the needs of consumers are changing? ...

Do you want results faster. We all want to multiply our turnover, not in next 25 years, not in a decade, but as soon as possible-and how about it in one year?. Whatever may be the business you are engaged in all sustainable businesses have an organic growth.  An organic growth simplifies the complexities of a business from time to time. We use all kinds of resources and information to make our business grow. By using resources like man power, capital and applying right strategies and having the access to the right information can help us succeed. Therefore your focus must be on gathering as much information as possible. That includes customer information, market information, information about competition and their offerings, information about what is going on in your industry a...

Lets assume that your team or company might be on top of the game. They just don’t meet targets, but sometimes they even exceed their target. All this makes it even tougher to ask or push for more. You also know that its very important to keep the motivation going, otherwise the team will fall back on a comfort zone and tend to decline in performance thereafter. In a numbers-driven world,how do you ask for more when people are already giving consistent results? Well all demands begin with the leader. When a leader can demand more from him self or her self, they can demand more from others as well. The energy of leaders is, for better or worse, contagious and leaders know that motivation is more important when people are doing better and you do so because you know for a fact they are be...