I’ve worked with a lot of great MBA’s in my career, but have also worked in orgs where everyone was an MBA but it took over a year to udate a few lines of copy on our homepage. Go figure?

Also, don’t forget that those new folks that you brought on to initiate change don’t actually know anything even though they have proven track records. Much better to keep them to the side and hire consultants to do the work you hired the other people to do. That has the side benefit of creating more layers.

Make sure that you start several different initiaves in different areas of your business. Each of these should tackle the same problem. Now, it is important that this “same problem” has not been tracked and measured properly. “Rabbit trails” are great for ensuring that nothing gets done!

This was somewhat implied, but how about meetings in general? We used to have plenty of meetings around here because you’ve got to have meetings, right? Then I realized you don’t really have to meet, nobody likes meetings, and we haven’t had meetings since. That is, we have meetings, but they’re the type where someone needs to talk about something face to face so they walk into my office and we talk for three minutes until the matter is resolved and then the meeting is over. We probably save 10 man hours or more per week by not having a weekly company meeting.

Love those Despair “demotivators.”

Peter, I have a feeling that you’ll really like these “demotivational posters” from Despaire, Inc.

http://despair.com/viewall.html

They’re pretty darn funny.