by billc | Apr 4, 2009 | Management, Accountability & Responsibility, Production & Operations
Unrealistic deliverables Either the department itself or an outside department may be setting unrealistic goals. Problem Depth...
by billc | Mar 27, 2009 | Financial, Management, Accountability & Responsibility, People Issues & Mood of People, Production & Operations, Sales, Marketing & Clients
Inadequate compensation Are people ever happy about money? Yes, if other conditions in the company are rewarding, money drops in priority. Your staff members have to feel you care enough about them. Problem Depth...
by billc | Feb 19, 2009 | Financial, Management, Accountability & Responsibility, Production & Operations
Too many of the projects we start, fail This is a crisis, suggestive of an underlying malaise that has to be dealt with quickly. 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 | Jan 22, 2009 | Management, Accountability & Responsibility, People Issues & Mood of People, Production & Operations, Strategy, Structure & Organization
Departments concerned primarily with themselves (a) Lack of cooperation signifies Accountability issues.(b) However, often such an issue is precipitated by the Mood of the leader of the self-centered department creating the ‘silo’ mentality. Mood problems are the most...
by billc | Jan 4, 2009 | Financial, Management, Accountability & Responsibility, Production & Operations, Sales, Marketing & Clients
Performance standards not tied to rewards and punishments The problem of performance standards not being tied to rewards could be just the reverse: rewards are not tied to performance standards. In either case both have to be defined, namely: (a) reward method and (b)...
