The Shape of Interim Management To Come
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Dr Peter Wolf on Dec 10, 2009 | 5 Comments

In November 2009, the CBI in the UK released a highly important trends document entitled The Shape of Business: The next ten years. They predict that "the business environment of the next decade will be significantly different to what might have been expected just two years ago". In response, businesses, they say, will respond across

Igniting Possibilities in 2010! Deanne Earle tells us how!
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Deanne Earle on Dec 09, 2009 | 0 Comments

As promised, here's the full interview with Guest Blogger Deanne Earle of Unlike Before. Don't forget to check out as well the Xtranormal video clip showing the preview interview between Management Sushi and Unlike Before! See the earlier blog post to find out more!

Deanne talks about Ignite - her new eBook on behavioural

Baby Boomer Brouhaha : An interview with Gina Abudi
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Gina Abudi on Dec 07, 2009 | 0 Comments

Here is an interview with regular Management Sushi Guest Blogger Gina Abudi.

Today, we look at the burning question of how to plan in the workplace for the ultimate exodus of the baby boomer era. Training up high potentials is of critical importance right now, particularly in such difficult and challenging times for businesses around the globe.

You can access a

Hot Stuff! Does Igniting Possibilities spark your interest?
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Dec 07, 2009 | 0 Comments

... Check out the Management Sushi blog this coming Wednesday to see the full interview with Deanne Earle of Unlike Before talking about her new eBook Igniting the Possibility.

You can check out an early preview of the interview here in this light-hearted

2010 : Year of the TV Marathon Work Week Approach?!
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Barry Zweibel on Dec 06, 2009 | 0 Comments

In a world of accelerating change, social media revolution, and communications overload, you can run the risk of getting burned out very quickly no matter what profession you pursue. If you don't have a strategy for your working week, you can soon find yourself in the realms of procrastination [and not quite getting round to ‘getting your stuff done'!],

USF Health's Mo Kasti on Leadership 2.0
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Mo Kasti on Dec 01, 2009 | 0 Comments

Harvard Business Review has an article out this month [How to pick a good fight : December 2009] which contends that strong leaders can create the kind of conflict that can spark creativity and innovation. They say .....

Most leadership experts argue that the best way to manage change is to create

The Fishy Challenges of Leadership in Business
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Deanne Earle on Nov 20, 2009 | 0 Comments

It may look like there is an excess of fish on this Management Sushi blog post - not just the brand header but the blog post image as well - but there is actually a very good reason for this piscatorial excess!

Here's why ...! Unlike Before's Deanne Earle in her latest blogpost below, looks at leadership impact on organisational challenges while discussing the views of Read more >

Charles Muamba introduces Scientific Marketing
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Charles Muamba on Nov 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

When he's not playing football or supporting the Penn State Nittany Lions, Charles Muamba, Founder and CEO of the Muamba Group in New York, spends his time getting to grips with - and advising on - the deepest intricacies of behavioural marketing. In his guest blog, he expands further on his views on this topic (which he terms Scientific Marketing). Read his guest blog further below to

10 Tangible Tips for Effective Change
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Deanne Earle on Nov 05, 2009 | 2 Comments

As Guest Blogger, and Director of Unlike Before, Deanne Earle says in her post below, never mind that change is constant, it's the speed of it that we need to manage. The tips she offers should prove very helpful for all of us. Change is not going to get any slower!  We all need to learn ways of accepting and adapting to constant change that hits us every day. Otherwise, we can soon find ourselves drained through sheer change fatigue, demotivated and struggling with slipping morale.

The social media phenomenon, like Deanne says, rides the

Management Excellence, Johnny Appleseed Style
Posted by Bernie Ritchie & Barry Zweibel on Oct 29, 2009 | 1 Comments

In a recent HBR article by Robert Sutton ('How to be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy' : June 2009), Robert Sutton wrote that these tough economic times can provoke "tunnel vision and desperation" on the part of bosses.

He went on to say that for bosses "win or lose", it will always "come back to help you" if their people