Robert Hammond Joins Navigate Management Consulting

Robert Hammond Joins Navigate Management Consulting

Navigate Management Consulting announces that Robert Hammond has joined the firm.   Robert brings more than 20 years of executive and leadership experience in the systems integration industry with a strong history of impactful and profitable change in organizations. “I have known Brad for years, both as a client and through

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What Qualities Make Good Leaders?

What Qualities Make Good Leaders?

  On this episode of The AV Profession, Brad Malone joins Tim Albright to discuss what qualities make good leaders.   Leadership is about creating a vision and inviting people to come along on the journey.   And it’s about risk, because you’re putting your name on that vision.  

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What the Customer Wants You to Know

What the Customer Wants You to Know

We have to face the truth: the process of selling is broken. Customers have more choices and are under intense pressure. Yet few companies are facing this reality. More than ever these days, the sales process tends to be a war about price, a frustrating, unpleasant war that takes all

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Joel Harris Joins Navigate

Joel Harris Joins Navigate Management Consulting

Navigate Management Consulting announces that Joel Harris has joined the firm. Joel brings more than 25 years of experience in executive and leadership positions in systems integration businesses where he has a proven track record of successfully leading, designing, implementing, and executing organizational transformation as well as efficiency-driven improvements.   Joel

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Built to Last

Built to Last

Built to Last examines 18 truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studies each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. It follows these companies from their very beginnings to the present day – as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. What makes the truly exceptional companies

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Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management for Integrators

On this episode of the AV Profession, Brad Malone joins Tim Albright to discuss human resource management.   How can integrators make sure that their human resources are where they’re supposed to be, when they’re supposed to be there? It can be a real juggling act when integrators are sharing

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The Goal

The Goal

One of Eli Goldratt’s convictions was that the goal of an individual or an organization should not be defined in absolute terms. A good definition of a goal is one that sets us on a path of ongoing improvement. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel,

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real-time project numbers

Time is Money

  On this episode of The AV Profession, Brad Malone joins Tim Albright to discuss real-time project numbers – financials, hours, payroll – what are some of the key numbers that integrators need to get right?   Financials are always important, but they are also a lag measure.   “In

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Multipliers

Multipliers

Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizations—getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation. We have all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and

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Lean Startup

The Lean Startup

For many years, The Lean Startup has been a favorite book of our podcast guest for Navigate Academy Module 11, Brian James, Director of Sales and Engineering at Neurilink. The chapters on testing are particularly relevant for this new time and age we are living through. Are there small, lightweight

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