…” I believe it’s a total change management and transformation of consumers’ behavior. Leveraging communities’ awareness for greenery products/services must be accompanied by solid, transparent and credible efforts by corporates, and not just greenery-looking ads or TV commericals.”-Mouaz  Consumers attach little credibility to...

Unlike his previous book ‘Good to Great’, Jim Collins examined how big, great and successful enterprise might fall, what dynamics or markers that drive to complete failure and total collapse. Mr.Collins discussed five stages of gradual, unnoticed, yet fatal free fall to failure. It starts with success arrogance or what he refers to as “Hubris Born...

 The role of a global leader has a particular complexity, one that is categorically different from the complexity faced by domestic and even regional leaders. To be an effective global leader, you must be able to operate amid myriad challenges. The research and experience of CCL shows that the leap from being a successful manager in your home country to a global...

Downsizing has always been a popular practice in the corporate world – even for firms not in distress. But today, with many companies in distress, downsizing efforts are on the rise. So I thought I might as well look into what we know about the effects of such efforts from academic research to see when they can be a good idea. The answer? Not very often. On...

“… Interesting thoughts by Brian Div, Booz & Company”-Mouaz  Most companies grade their employees’ jobs using some kind of ranking or rating system based on job evaluation. The grades assigned are intended to assess fair pay for people doing the same work, and are usually public, like the letter grades of schools. In theory, these systems...

Organizations need to change constantly, for all kinds of reasons, but achieving a true step change in performance is rare. Indeed, in a recent McKinsey survey of executives from around the world,1 only a third say that their organizations succeeded in doing so. Executives were also asked how their organizations designed and managed a recent change effort, how they...