The identification of who will be the next generation to own and manage a business is one of the most critical management tasks for a business owner.  This action is what guarantees the owner’s personal retirement goals and sets in place the owners’ legacy for continuing the business into the future.

Seeing and understanding how the powerful become powerless is crucial to business leaders and entrepreneurs.  This is how the potential solution (change-oriented employee) becomes the problem (status quo, change-resistant employee).

Metrics are used to drive improvement and help businesses focus their people and resources on what’s important. The range of metrics that companies employ vary from those that are mandatory – for legal, safety, or contractual purposes – to those that track increases in efficiency, reductions in complaints, higher profits, and more significant savings.

For organizations to be successful, they need to have unity.  They need to be, using office speak, “singing from the same sheet of music.” There needs to be organizational unity at the highest level.