Monthly Archives: September 2011
Performance and People
In a recent article The Success Equation, we are shown what is apparent to most company heads and team leaders: that both performance based decision making and people-based decision making are necessary to the production and bottom line. If we know this …
Lead Your Team Meetings
Not many of us look forward to meetings. Whether you have them weekly, monthly, or quarterly, they are bound to be accompanied by groans and complaints. This is a problem. These negative responses towards team meetings may be because performance …
Adjusting Your Strategy for the Economy
In every economy, business leaders need to adjust their strategies to what is going on and will be going on around them. You can usually see these trends and they will be good or bad depending on the industry you …
Stop Procrastinating
Procrastination is the enemy. In every facet of your life there are deadlines that need to be met. Whether it’s a work project, school project, when your bills are due (yes, those are deadlines too), they are in place for …
“A” Players
Every company that we have met that has a cash flow problem or were unsatisfied with their growth or profits also had a people problem. Growth problems attributable to bad strategy are also people problems because companies that choose the …
Paying Too Much Attention on Price Competition?
People often spend more time figuring out how to build their fantasy football teams, plan their vacations, and handle other various unimportant matters than they spend on building their business strategy. While strategic planning is more difficult and is likely …
It’s almost 2012: Time to THRIVE regardless of the economy.
Our goal at Activate Group, Inc. is to help C-level Executives learn and implement the most relevant concepts from key business books, thought leaders and fellow executives that can help you maximize and accelerate your growth and profitability. We want to invite you to attend the following workshops and webinars that we believe …
Make a Decision
Decisions, decisions, decisions…who’s making them in your company? Do you have a good decision process and are the right people involved in the decision making? Are they being made in a timely manner? Are they good decisions? If you find …
Does Beauty Equal Success?
There was an article written recently that can be found on Economist.com that brings up the argument that better looking people are more successful in just about all aspects of business. The article “The Line of Beauty” mentions that “physically …
Four Key Training Factors
What are the factors that cause the difference between successful and unsuccessful training initiatives?
