Showing posts with label change management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change management. Show all posts

A Tough Message for Tough Times

On Wednesday, the 13th, in Anaheim we are speaking to "the best of the best" in the music retailing industry. We believe the topic of our 90-minute presentation is SPOT-ON, as they say.

After considerable discussion with the group's leadership, it surfaced that the greatest threat to these retailers was not all the issues that get media attention, but was a rather spooky surprise: Mid-management people, those who must execute better and/or differently, often don't truly understand WHY they should embrace change.

What's needed now is balance sheet appreciation. Survival is balance sheet strength; nothing matters more. Nothing! And mid-management that does not clearly understand how to improve a Debt-to-Worth ratio should be rapidly trained or more rapidly replaced. It's as simple and urgent as that.