A how-to book to analyze the capability of your organization, and to make it more future-friendly
You're the Managwer of a business, or a part of one, that you think might benefit from professional assistance in diagnosing problems and correcting them. You consider calling in a Management Consultant to fix the problem, but before you do that, you would like to know more about possible fixes. This book is a guide to the processes, enabling you to do the work yourself in many cases, or to manage a Consultant to do the work effectively. It will give you an understanding of the work required, the traps and the opportunities. It will give you the understanding to get the most out of your business unit, and the opportunity to lift your management capabilities to the next step.
This book is one of the standarrds training sources for numerous Management Consultants. It will become a book that you will return to time after time!
Excerpt
During many years of seeing that many businesses are striving to do the best they can, and often failing in that task, I could not help asking “why?” This question was one that that I had asked throughout my working life, and I could not understand why others did not ask it.
The answer is simple.
Everyone in a business, usually, and not least, the top executives, know all the answers. The only problem is that they do not know the right questions.
The way to success in most cases lies in asking the right questions. The right question has the answer built into it. Arriving at the answer before you have asked the question almost invariably denies you the opportunity to understand the real situation. Even worse, ‘knowing the answer’ before you have formulated the question defeats the whole object of asking.
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