by billc | Feb 9, 2009 | Communications & Information Flow, Management, Accountability & Responsibility
Tasks delegated without sufficient authority If you are assigned a task or responsibility but NOT corresponding authority, you should run the other way as fast as you can. Problem Depth...
by billc | Feb 5, 2009 | Communications & Information Flow, Management, Accountability & Responsibility, Production & Operations, Strategy, Structure & Organization
People don’t know what the real priorities are Agreement on how to classify the company priorities needs to be found. Then those priorities must be communicated to each affected person. This could be based as a simple Miscommunication issue, or be driven by the far...
by billc | Feb 3, 2009 | Communications & Information Flow, Management, Accountability & Responsibility, Sales, Marketing & Clients
Sales quotas are not understood or accepted The problem of sales quotas not being understood or accepted could be a communications problem but more likely it is being viewed as an unjustified top-down decision; thus salespeople feel that rewards are not tied to real...
by billc | Jan 31, 2009 | Management, Accountability & Responsibility, People Issues & Mood of People, Sales, Marketing & Clients
Although we may have known who the deadwood people were, we don’t understand why management took so long to rectify the situation.
by billc | Jan 30, 2009 | Communications & Information Flow, Management, Accountability & Responsibility, Sales, Marketing & Clients, Strategy, Structure & Organization
Company has lost touch with clients and market Losing touch with the Market, in all probability, is a sign of decay of an aging organization. Problem Depth...
by billc | Jan 29, 2009 | Management, Accountability & Responsibility, People Issues & Mood of People
People, not situations, are blamed for problems Sure signs of a company in trouble. Problem Depth...
