Yellow Time Inspiration Newsletter
In our newsletter you’ll find food for thought of different flavors – books, podcasts, videos and articles – to feed your mind, eyes and ears, to help (re)calibrating position towards your goals.
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Newsletter November 2024
The path to Enterprise Excellence (+VIDEO)
Whether it’s improving operational efficiency, embracing innovation, or delivering superior customer experiences, knowing you not only need to perform today, but in parallel also keep moving forward is just the first step. The real challenge lies in managing that transition, navigating through uncertainties, and ensuring your efforts yield long-lasting success.
Success is a journey, not a destination.
Continuity
CONTINUITY? The greatest good.
It’s the result of AGILITY AND RESILIENCE.
Hand in hand. Pushing or pulling?
Both, alternately!
Newsletter July 2024
Finding the Sweet Spot (+VIDEO)
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
SYMPHONY
Every enterprise is familiar with its big and small challenges.
Change might be the message. Resistance will occur.
Unless the CHANGE SUCCEEDS NATURALLY.
Newsletter April 2024
Companies that thrive instead of survive
Companies that stand out and consistently lead the market share a common approach: a balanced focus on maintaining business operations, driving continuous improvement, embarking on transformative changes, and nurturing both a strong group culture and individual contributions.
Key pillars of succesful transformation projects
Talking about transformation, means talking about a future that is different than today. There are probably many projects that will need to be managed to bridge that gap…
Video: From A to B
What thriving companies focus on and how they manage projects successfully.
Newsletter May 2023
Doing Yellow
To achieve a goal together with others, we need to create a joint base by finding the cross-section of our worlds and experience.Viewing reality as it is and accepting it is the only right starting point.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
From time to time, it is necessary to step back in order to check whether everything is still going in the right direction. That requires ‘the ability to observe’: we have to be able to look at ourselves, others and things by zooming out. Sometimes you have to allow space and emptiness to find out what you need to know. Distance brings insight.
Newsletter July 2022
A summer full of books
At ViCre we believe in reading. Reading about personal growth, about management and leadership, about specific business topics, and about understanding humans and human relationships. The spectrum is broad. Enjoy to receive from the ocean.
Reading a book, starts with buying a book. Hereby, we present you a series of books to get you started: old timers, classics and some new ideas.
Have a great summer!
Newsletter March 2022
Create Awarenes, Get commitment
Understanding your enterprise and constantly analyzing its results is important to operate at your most successful. But what’s even more important and crucial for fully grasping your business and improving it, is seeing things as they really are.
4 Colors towards Enterprise Excellence
Enterprise Excellence is the result of balancing 4 colored ‘activity paths’: Increase Performance, Create Awareness, Enable Transformation, Solve Issues. It means there is no wrong place to start, you choose the color that fits your current business challenge best.
Is Yours a Learning Organization? (HBR)
Newsletter January 2022
The Future Workforce
The relationship between employees and employers is changing and we see 3 main challenges emerging:
1. How to attract, grow and retain talent?
2. How to manage a remote workforce?
3. How do we build strong connections within and between our teams?
How Leaders Can Balance the Needs to Perform and to Transform
Leaders are facing two relentless sources of pressure right now. The first is the intense demand to perform — despite some radical shifts. The second is the urgent need to transform — to reimagine the future and to reinvent your company’s strategy and culture to win that future. (HBR)
Newsletter June 2021
Reaching Horizons – Window Cleaner
A sharp and clear vision is essential. It enables us To step back. To see further. To tell the difference between sense and nonsense. To progress. Sometimes I can’t do this alone. Then, I’m happy that you are there.
You, a leader, a colleague, a customer, a supplier, a friend…
A CDO to get your data house in order?
What do Coca-Cola and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have in common? Both recently hired their first Chief Data Officer. In 2021, fewer and fewer companies doubt the primacy of data. They realized it improves customer loyalty, boosts revenue and increases operational efficiencies.” (Built In)
Newsletter April 2021
The Power of Existing Business
Going after new customers is of course a must-do. However, caring for the existing ones is also crucial. If you do the latter in a smart way, you do not only get satisfied customers, it will also generate an additional and, more-over, predictable revenue stream.
This is where the Care system comes in. You can discover it in our white paper.
The Importance Of Perseverance
Perseverance and persistence are equally crucial in the work required to turn a business into a viable enterprise, given the challenges and roadblocks thrown up along the way. It allow us to achieve those goals in the face of obstacles that would otherwise derail us. (Forbes)
