Syd Barrett

Laughter Inside the Workplace
The daily deadline you need to meet, targets you got to reach, and clients you have to please: all of these can cause overwhelming stress that lower your productivity inside the office. Turn your frown upside down and have a sunny disposition despite the presence of work-related stress! It might be a cliché, but laughter is the best medicine -- even inside the workplace.

Laughter Inside the Workplace
The daily deadline you need to meet, targets you got to reach, and clients you have to please: all of these can cause overwhelming stress that lower your productivity inside the office. Turn your frown upside down and have a sunny disposition despite the presence of work-related stress! It might be a cliché, but laughter is the best medicine -- even inside the workplace.

The Dangers of Avoiding Change - Three Keys to Help Make Change Easy
It's easy to get caught up with the busyness and just do what we've always done. But in order to maintain our sanity, increase our efficiency and live balanced lives while growing our businesses we need to step back, take an objective look at our situation, and make some needed changes.

Don't Solve Problems
The CHALLENGE of leadership is CHANGE. A manager or administrator can keep the status quo, but it takes a leader to create change. Traditionally, leaders have approached change as addressing problems.

Of Star Trek, Farming, and Cultivating Innovation
Going boldly into the future requires an assumption of two risks. The risk of not moving forward and the risk of moving in the wrong direction. Minimize those risks and make the future yours.

Change Management - Engaging Your People to Prevent Failure
The Organizational mind, sometimes comprising of hundreds or even thousands of individual minds, is very complex. Trying to change the Organizational Mind is difficult and can be fraught with danger, so Change Managers, and managers in general, need to have a clear understanding of the pitfalls and complexities, and know exactly how to work with individuals and groups to mitigate the risk and increase organizational productivity. A unique distance education program provides fully training in these techniques.

The Perfect Process Project - Why Do So Many Process Projects Fail?
By identifying some of the key issues that cause process project failure it is possible to create strategies and methods to bypass these failure points. Here are 5 reasons that this kind of project is unsuccessful.

How to Be a Catalyst For Change
The corporate world is full of examples of big changes that failed to take off. A high percentage of a senior executive's time is spent in planning for the future, making strategic choices, and committing huge resources to future plans and projects. Despite such efforts there is no guarantee that the proposed changes will be a success. What is a catalyst?Is it possible that people can succeed in their missions with the help of others who are catalysts? Are you a catalylist or are you a passive observer?

3 Billion Euros - The Value of a New CEO
It happened today. Unilever announced that they have found a new CEO, in anticipation to the foreseen retirement of the current CEO at the end of this year. In a financial market that was in decline, Unilever was one of the few stocks that climbed 1,23 euros more than 6%.

Culture in the Business Environment
There is a growing body of evidence that demonstrates that corporate culture does have a major impact on the bottom line success of the organization. Understand how you can break the traditional approach to organization problem solving and reap the benefits of proactively addressing your corporate culture.

Embrace Change, Embrace Opportunity
As small business owners we are not always willing to except change, which could be hurting us in the long run.  Recently, a very good web designer and friend of mine was discussing the difference between HTML websites and dynamic websites and how many people are afraid to change to dynamic websites.  Now web design is Greek to me but from what I know about HTML sites and dynamic sites, dynamic sites are much easier to create, fix and update and the great thing about dynamic sites is that you can still have control over what content you put in and when you put the content in.

How to Implement a Project Management Best Practice
I shivered in the cold air as I watched Tiger Woods swing back the golf club, pause for an instant, then uncoil his body to whip the club round and hit the bright white ball, which flew off into the grey morning mist. He had been repeating exactly the same shot for the last twenty minutes, as he prepared for the first round of the Open Golf Tournament. Each time the ball had followed the same perfect trajectory. As I was herded by a steward towards the spectator stand, I began to think, if only I could manage my projects at work with the same ruthless, repetitive efficiency.

When is Change Not Necessary in the Workplace?
In today's business climate the key to growth and survival is to remain in a 'constant change' mode. Companies are forced to implement drastic changes in an effort to keep up with competitors and to survive. A knowledge-based economy and technology-driven transformations require swift adjustments. It is true that the constant buzz about winning games, competing, innovating, and staying ahead puts pressure on all of us. But we should not take all changes for granted and accept all changes in the workplace as justified.

Are You Ticked Off at Work?
Recessionary times are fueling workforce anger, and it's important to know how to handle - and prevent - these frustrations in the workplace. While anger in the workplace is nothing new, mounting pressures due to economic uncertainty, corporate downsizing and people working around-the-clock are leading to anxiety and resentment - and an increase in inappropriate workplace behaviors.

Changing Organizational Culture - Six Tips For Effective Leaders
Organizational culture is the most powerful force in the workplace. What can a leader due to the fact his organization's culture? What are the leader's most effective tools for causing change?

Creating a Vision Statement - Finding the Right Balance Between Dreaming and Reality
A great vision statement is inspirational but realistic enough to inspire confidence. Striking the right balance gets at the heart of leadership. Is the practical techniques of turning that vision into reality.