Getting the Best out of the Matrix

Introduction For 40 Years few have challenged Matrix Management’s viability. Most writers remain convinced that a matrix approach is superior to a hierarchy, but why hasn’t it been more successful? This blog looks at pointing the reader to answer: How do...

Balancing Top Down and Bottom Up Approaches to Successful Change

Why is building productive relationships so important? As Terry Merriman says, “Performance is Personal Before it is Organizational”.  None of us work in a vacuum.  Improved workplace performance requires productive relationships with peers, bosses, subordinates,...

The One Thing Missing From Your To-Do List

by Mike Shultz, President, RAIN Group If you have 40 items on your list marked as priorities, you might as well have none. In our latest Extreme Productivity Benchmark Report, we found that “The Extremely Productive” are 5.3 times more likely to prune...