Why change fail?

t’s estimated that up to 70 percent of new progames that were put into action fail. Be it a policy or introduction of a new technology or rebranding of a company. Why change effort does not produce any change or give results? We often buy things that may not fit into our society. We love stability, so we think a system that works well in one country may fit into ours with no modification. That is the typical mindset we all have. In fact, every human society is unique. It might be duce to their culture, belief system or geographic location.

When we want to adopt or bring a change, first we have to know the differences and similarities among ourselves. We can only build an empire based on common goal and interests. We have to let go some of our goals that are not similar with our partners. That is something that we all need to understand. We should communicate the big picture that you have in your mind. Success of change effort depends on the degree of conviction people have on the new beginning. Information that was seen useful and timely concerning the change favorably impact people’s attitude about the planed change.

If we failed to communicate reasons clearly why we need to experience new things or need to change, people start to resist one way or the other. It’s because people may think it doesn’t give any good to them and it might be general. If we don’t consider cultural factor, change might bring additional problem and conflict between existing culture and what is to be changed.

Why change fail?

Work life balance

Would you hire a workaholic candidate for a newly started business? Would you marry a workaholic person? If you ask a first question to an employer he might say yes. But if you ask a second question to a husband or wife to be, you would get a different answer. In fact, depending on the type of the job that involves high level stress and dreary, the employer might also say NO to a first question. For instance, if a doctor is working excessively with no rest, the chances of making mistakes involuntarily would very high.

So that work-life balance is important. Work-life balance is assigning and prioritizing time to all factors that helps individual to attain “satisfaction” without depriving the needs of another factor. The most important factors include Family, Self, Employer, Friends and Religion. Furthermore, it could be divided into two "work" (career and ambition) on one side and "life" (pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development) on the other.

Unfortunately many managers encourage the employees to work long hours. Often we see “able to be work long hours” as one of the requirements in order to qualify for the job. Research shows that healthy and balanced work-life is related to increase in productivity in the long run. Some managers are too concerned for short term results than the long term benefits. As a result, those managers give additional pressure to the employees. In the meantime, these employees also get pressure from family as well as friends. In the end, the employees’ stress level increases and affect their productivity.

People do perceive work-life balance differently. While women are

positive on balancing their life style, when men see it negatively and found less important.

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Work life balance

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Appreciate your best talents before they leave

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Recognizing best talent is important to retain top-notch employees. It would be better for a company as well as a manager to have top performers in their team, whom they can count on to produce right results; who can think ahead of what else needs to be done without being told.

We do not see many managers praising or recognizing their employees’ contribution. In fact, they often inadvertently marginalize their top performers and sends unwelcoming messages. As a result, they start seeking for a better opportunity from out side of the organization. Unfortunately managers have difficulties in dealing with their best talents or exceptional performers.

Experts suggest there may be two reasons why managers are unable to deal with best talents. (1) lack of self confidence and (2) lack of imagination. Sometimes when the employee is more energetic and starts performing better, managers feel threatened. Furthermore, these top-notch employees create additional pressure to managers. When it happens, managers start thinking whether I can be his boss, when my employee is smarter? Consequently, such managers demonize top-performing employees and make them frustrate. Naturally incompetent managers do not attract high talents or top-performing employees.

The second reason is that managers not know what to do with them. When the employee completes his tasks ahead of others, managers are not plan next task for him. Therefore, the employee starts engaging with some other job to pass his time.

Ashkenas recommends a guideline to solve this problem;

Ø Remember that hiring and developing people who are smarter than you is one of the best decisions a manager can make. The more talent you have on your team, the higher your performance. There is no substitute for an A-team.

Ø Once you have really good people, take advantage of them. Stretch them. Challenge them. Find out what they are good at — and what they need to learn. Craft assignments that will take them to the next level.

Ø Give your best people credit and visibility. Let others know what they are doing. Remember that they are corporate assets and not just members of your team.

Ø Be willing to let your best people go to new opportunities if it makes sense for their development and learning. Don't push them to leave before they have made a real contribution, but don't needlessly hold on to them either.

Source: HBR

Appreciate your best talents before they leave

hicard MMS & internet setting for iphone 3G/3Gs

The following MMS & internet setting is applicable for singtel prepaid(hicard) uses. Once you inserted your prepaid simcard into your iphone, automatically it will configure by itself. All you need to do is to change two things (marked in red),  which is access point name (APN) and password.

Setting >>>> General>>>> Network>>>> Please turn on the cellular data. After that click to the cellular data network, now you would be able to see cellular data settings. Please key in the information as follows

Under cellular data

APN: hicard

Username: 65ideas

Password: 65 followed by your phone number (e.g. 65123456)

 

Under MMS

APN: hicard

Username: 65ideas

Password: 65 followed by your phone number (e.g. 65123456)

MMSC: http://mms.singtel.com:10021/mmsct

MMS Proxy: 165.21.42.84:8080

MMS Max Message: 3072009

I have tested it and it works well for me. Please take note that the above information is only for education purpose only. Please visit to http://www.ideas.singtel.com to know more about data charge rates.

Source: Singtel phone configuration