MIT announces first chip designed with circuitry that mimics the brain.  

- CNN Online, June, 25, 2000

Leadership Challenges 

of the Digital Economy

"The global economy is creating a reality that forces us to work differently, to conceptualize and relate in ways that may not be familiar or comfortable. Coping successfully with change, welcomed or not, is critical to success in the emerging digital economy. "

 - Raymond J. Coffin, Psy.D.

Coffin, De Lao & Associates

Managing Today Means Managing Change

     Unprecedented opportunity, unrelenting pressure.  Managing in this economy is an amazing, breathtaking, at times, terrifying ride into the unknown.   

     As the pace accelerates, the strain of people and organizations struggling to cope with continuous change becomes palpable. The ability to cope with the scale and speed of change becomes critical.  

Exponential Increases in Speed  and Complexity Threaten Many Leaders

    It also threatens many of your best managers.  Have their skills become obsolete?  Will they be passed over in the rush to adjust to the latest market twist?

    The importance of relationships escalates.  With your team, your customers, suppliers, but most importantly, with yourself.   Success now calls for skills that may not have been so critical in the past.  Things that got left behind in the rush to establish technical competence.  People are being pushed out of their comfort zone, daily.  

    We can help.  Our blend of business knowledge and expertise in catalyzing personal change can get your team up to speed so you're not left behind wishing you had acted sooner.  Call today for a confidential discussion of your situation.

Thriving on Change--Building a Sustainable Foundation

    People can and do change.  Some even thrive on it.  Our job is to make that process work for you.  We help you understand your teams's ability to cope with and capitalize on changing market conditions, and what it will take to improve performance.

    Whether you’re talking about the development of key contributors, turnaround of potential derailers, careerpath development, or overall teambuilding, we put the latest personal development technology to work for you from the Boardroom to the "shop" floor.    

    Our approach . . . The core of our strategy is to "strengthen the foundation." We do what's needed to reshape attitudes, develop skills and deepen insight essential to sustaining lasting improvements in your team's ability to excel in a dynamically changing world.  We understand the value not just of words, but of modeling and example.  We will work side-by-side with you to guide your organization to a higher level of functioning.

     "Insight and warm feelings are not enough..."  Years of work with clients has taught us that "insight" and warm feelings alone are not enough.  While we focus on inner growth, we measure our impact with results.  Our goal is to improve performance on the measures that matter to you.  First, by teaching the concepts, then showing your team how to use them in the world they deal with every day.  After all, at the end of the day, the bottom-line is still the bottom-line.

"When intellectual capital moves to digital networks, it transforms entire industries . . ."

- Tapscott et al. 

 Digital Capital 

"I'm seeing changes on the business- to-consumer side coming every 90 days, and I mean sea changes.  So strategy integration is 10 times more important than in the "real" world, because you have to work so fast." 

- Mark Hogan, Director

eGM

"People can and do change.  Some even thrive on it.  Our job is to make that process work for you." 

"Our goal is to improve performance on the measures that matter to you

 . . . . After all, at the end of the day, the bottom-line is still the bottom-line."