Few forces are as powerful as shared vision. Here are some tips for developing, or improving, your printing company vision statement.
Joseph P. Truncale, Ph.D.
The anxiety felt by many on Sunday afternoons can be directly linked to company culture, and consequently, the leadership.
As a company grows rapidly, its processes, structure, and its people will likely change. The CEO/owner's role will also greatly shift.
While circumstances change over time, there remains a constant: Businesses that take time to assess the external environment, take stock of their unique strengths and align those with emerging needs of carefully identified target customers can sustain high performance and success over time...
Three key activities often rise to the top of the list for getting needed resolve. Addressing them directly clears the way for success.
As the organization’s leader goes through the business day, there are all manner of potential distractions. It can often seem like too much of the leader’s time is spent cleaning up messes and completing (or doing) staff work that can and should be handled at other levels of the organization. As the leader, how will you deploy your most valuable, precious resource: time?...
Business strategy takes many forms, but it has its roots in one simple idea: Identify and satisfy customer needs in a way that is unique from the competition, and be ready to seize on opportunities quickly and efficiently. The best strategic plans have these three characteristics: they enable organizations to be fast, fluid and flexible...
Finding and retaining talented, committed employees, particularly for production and sales positions, has been an enduring challenge. According to a recent survey by the Conference Board, this difficulty now extends to office workers. What to make of these findings? First, recruiting talent at all levels of the organization has become a full-time endeavor...
I read with interest recently about two publicly traded businesses facing significant challenges. They both have one thing in common: their sales are growing. Rapid sales growth is good, but it can put a strain on capital as the need to expand and ramp up quickly requires both liquidity and the capacity for investment...
The impact of “bad leadership” is found at all levels of leadership. How does your printing organization shape up?
Enduringly successful leaders begin with an essential first step: gaining a deeper understanding of themselves. This awareness brings a level of clarity and provides an effective pathway for laying out their individual responsibilities and for those of their team members...
Many managers are used to the “one size fits all” model where special considerations for individual employees are all but forbidden by policies and procedures designed to ensure “fairness.” But the new, pandemic-impacted workplace means a different approach focused less on keeping exceptions to the minimum and more on working with the unique needs of each team member...
As organizations strive to make sense of a changing operating environment, effective strategic planning has never been more important.
Truncale describes how one organization took a different approach to improving departmental conflicts, and the results were surprising.
It seems hardly anyone is satisfied with their sales compensation system, but what are viable alternatives and how do we get there?
