Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This content borrows from the great work of Ichak Adizes and his research into corporate lifecycles, and management. From my work and research, the continuum of change-acceptance and change-resistance is constant. Just four essential functions can define the fundamental role of management for any team, department, or company.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re preparing to launch a startup, or you’re in the early days of growing a small business, here is some advice to help you reduce risks and manage your money effectively. Create budgets, evaluate spending and look for ways to make savings without compromising on quality or customer service. Make budgeting simple.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 24, 2018

If I had received a thousand dollars from every change manager I have worked with over the past forty years who thought business would carry on as usual while a significant change was implemented, and was wrong, I would be a very wealthy man. Know that this will happen, and be prepared to manage it. There is no ‘business as usual’.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Many leaders see their roles as presiders/managers, with a primary focus on keeping results consistent with past performance and on budget. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz introduce a new way of thinking and managing, called "future-back," that enables any manager to become a practical visionary. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Because value chains are independent of existing organizational structures, staff and work locations, they are less intimidating to the management and staff that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Stop thinking about managing the risk of technology, tools, and process improvement. Beating your competition to the future will be accomplished by those companies with vision, talent, grit, purpose, agility, creativity, commitment and determination – not just those organizations with bigger budgets.

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Change Starts Here

MAY 9, 2018

If left off the schedule, the resulting resistance and confusion can prevent your project from delivering results. Trying to add it later will blow up your budget and […]. Making sure they are ready to adopt change and not obstruct it takes time and deliberate effort.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership. Resist making verbal commitments : Most misunderstandings occur as a result of improper interpretation of oral communications.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. Using change management methods, HR can truly take on the role of facilitator of organizational success. Project Management.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We know the Resistance Loop. I argue that it works way better than the resistance loop and the results are greater for everyone. Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

Someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off on an angry tirade about “What a jerk they are – they always do this. These fictions can be seen either as cooperation or resistance ; they are one or the other. Pattern of Resistance. Pattern of Cooperation.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2013

And if we are honest, sometimes we may even secretly wish that the workplace could deliver a continuous, uninterrupted "yes"— "yes" I got the plum job; "yes" the budget was approved; "yes" the redesign has been accepted. Are we emotionally confident enough to hear the facts rather than a "managed narrative"?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

If senior management cuts your budget, says no to replacing broken equipment, or reduces your headcount, what is the first feeling that wells up inside you? Adversity Offers A Chance To Get Creative – I once read that creativity is a product of boundaries and constraints, not unlimited budgets and freedoms. Irritation?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

Securing necessary resources, such as budget, technology, and personnel, should also be included in the implementation plan. Strategy 3: Foster Strong Leadership and Change Management Leadership plays a critical role in the success of EOS implementation.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 26, 2015

Scenario 1: You’ve been watching one of your regional managers closely for some time, and gosh, can he ever generate sales. Your rational brain whispers “But the sales……are up” Scenario 2: You have a brilliant engineer on your team that you’ve recently promoted into management. Resistance.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As societies across the western world age, it’s increasingly important that we manage to age in a healthy way. It reminds us that resistance training can benefit people regardless of both their age and previous levels of fitness.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

John Hunter of Curious Cat: Management Improvement Blog submitted Good Project Management Practices. Learn more about: Suggested practices to achieve successful projects and develop the capability of the organization to manage projects over the long term. Julie Winkle-Giulioni provided Building Business Acumen on a Budget.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

From HR policies to management behavior, it is crucial to consider every aspect when establishing a work culture. Discriminatory practices are very counterproductive to a healthy organization and companies that turn a blind eye to them will face challenges and resistance at every stage of their work process.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation. Alignment: When it comes to strategy, alignment is a critical success factor.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

It has happened to all of us, someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off an angry tirade about “What an a **e they are and they always do this. These fictions can be seen as cooperation or resistance , one cannot exist in the same breathe as the other.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Impacts a majority of stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers, management) who will need to adapt to change for the initiative to be successful. So what is the mindset applied to managing strategic initiatives in your organization? There are no controls or process to prevent/manage “intent drift”.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In order for decisions to be made quickly, and the work to be completed on-time, on-budget, within quality, while the team still gets along, a known and agreed upon procedure must be used. Resist the temptation to overuse consensus. Have you ever experienced a project manager, manager who was overly reliant on consensus?

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

The team building I offer focuses on the team completing their work on time, within budget and quality specifications. Project Manager / Team Leader – What to do. Project Manager / Team Leader explain why this team is together; Who is part of the team. Team projects succeed of purpose. Schedule this time in the agenda.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If you resist, they will go on to the next warm body. Budget it each year. I stated that I wasn’t interested in his projects and needed to end the call. People who hound and use you in business are out for whatever they can get, from whomever they can get it. How much time away from business can you take?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2016

It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance. We’re actually creating resistance, losing business, destroying relationships, and impeding change. Regardless of how important our information is, it will be resisted until/unless there is internal buy-in for it. But is this true? And we’re wrong. Here’s why.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 14, 2014

Despite the fact that we rapidly outgrew that accounting system, cursed it daily, constantly looked at wonderful alternatives, and even allocated budget, we never replaced it. If you can’t or won’t measure results don’t expect sympathy from me or any line manager. Fear of change. ” are gone.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Most hiring managers talk a good game about wanting an “all-star in every position,” but deep down they don’t really mean it. What are some of the major mistakes managers make in the hiring process?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Pursuing a Return-to-Office: Advantages The managers who have been worried about their workforce may have been correct to a degree—many employees did start to face a disconnect from their work considering they weren’t as immersed in it as they would be while traveling to work.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Change is inevitable and so is the resistance to change. When the changes were made to remedy the workplace inadequacies, the result was a success, due in part to appropriate business process management practices, and an overall acceptance of “Kaizen”. Management and leadership are not synonymous. By Kaity Nakagoshi.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance. We're actually creating resistance, losing business, destroying relationships, and impeding change. Your boss tells you the company has been bought out and it may affect the launch, certainly effects next year's budget, your work location, and the team.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Find budget. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department).

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

– This seems to be a question a lot of project managers end up asking themselves. This blog post presents some of the most common project management mistakes made by companies all over the world. An organisational culture that is not ready for project management. Resisting change. Projects change all of the time.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2014

You can manage all kinds of tasks that might involve schedules, money, projects, budgets, and so on, and yet everything you do with your staff and other stakeholders involves relationships. I’ve noticed that adults tend to resist learning or re-learning good interpersonal and social management skills.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2019

You may be on a budget, yet you want to market and grow your business. First of all, you should have a great product that no one will resist buying. What are some of the budget-friendly marketing techniques you used? Probably that’s the hardest part that most aspiring entrepreneurs have. Here we go. Have social media presence.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

First, as a leader of a team, department or business unit with people, budgets and resources under your control, you must follow through on organizational commitments. This involves two elements. Unfortunately, people don't always do what they promise. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 8, 2013

The framework for the workshop, which I designed and facilitated, was later published in my change management toolkit called Irresistible: The Change Agent’s Guide to Design & Influence Change Without Getting Stuck. The move project came in under budget. No employees left the organization as a result of the relocation.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. “We These pitfalls are caused by wrongly held beliefs. The presenting issue is the real issue.”.

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