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The world has become more competitive that it had ever been before. And this is a trend that is constantly accelerating. The rate of change is just so fast that companies may easily become disintegrated from their environment, lose competitiveness, decline and eventually die. Corporate leaders are more and more often called upon to save organizations from death, most of the times in a fast and traumatic way. Despite their efforts, however, they are not always successful.   External disintegration, meaning the disintegration of a company from its environment is the result of internal disintegration, which in turn results in organizational aging and eventually decline. Organizations can, for various reasons, become sclerotic and inward looking and when that happens, it turns out that, for them, what takes place inside is more important than what happens out in the market. Under such circumstances, the organization moves slower than its environment or towards a totally different direc

It is the belief of many, that effective managers should be able to give the right answer to every question and the right solution to every problem. They are expected to have their pockets full of them! The saying goes as follows: if somebody brinks a problem he or she is most probably an employee but if he or she also comes with a solution he or she is definitely a manager. Managers are simply expected to know everything and to be able to solve all kinds of problems. They are simply expected to have perfect knowledge and perfect judgment and to apply them perfectly, to say the least. This is however clearly an illusion that even managers themselves have!   Managers can make mistakes, as all human beings do! And their mistakes can range from small to big ones. No matter the quantity and the quality the knowledge and the experience they possess, no matter of the amount of information they have in order to decide correctly, they still make mistakes, simply because their perception of