Other Important Web Sites

Support for CEO's who are creating self-managed companies

Community site for Entrepreneurs, Managers, Consultants, Academics, & Students interested Self-Management principles and practice

Software systems to support companies implementing Self-Management

Online courses companies implementing Self-Management

A series of white papers of subjects relevant to Self-Management practice

Bookstore for topics on Self-Management and other relevant subjects

Consulting

Hands-on Support for Transforming Your Business

Making the transition from traditional management to a self-managed company takes time and effort but the investment pays huge dividends:

• Wide upward career path for employees
• Highly adaptive corporate culture
• Maximizing return on payroll
• Structure that can rapidly respond to opportunities in the marketplace
• Attract and retain top talent
• Freeing up important bandwidth for the CEO
• Robust leadership structure and decision making

Management Technologies Inc. (MTI) is focused on providing support for entrepreneurs making this transition. From the principles of self-management outlined in Lanny Goodman's The End of Management to the far more specific and detailed Self-Management Manuals, MTI's consulting services are there for entrepreneurs who want and need more direct support.

The Planning Foundation Session

Transforming your company from the traditional model to one that intrinsically leverages your talent begins with the strategic planning process, a core expertise of MTI for almost 30 years. The starting point of the planning process is the Planning Foundation Session. This two-day session is held at our offices with CEO and spouse and is designed to answer four basic questions which will build the foundation for the planning process.

1. What do we need and want out of life?
2. How can our company help us accomplish that?
3. What would the company need to look like to fulfill that role?
4. How do we get it there from here?

The participants in the Planning Foundation Session comes away with a life plan with his or her spouse, a set of design specifications for the organization, a design for what the company needs to become to serve as a vehicle for their life aspirations, and a roadmap of how to begin the journey of transformation.

Then, working with the MTI consultant, a plan for the strategic planning process, putting together the Leadership Team at your company and beginning the process of transferring the baton of CEO-ship to the Leadership Team.

The process of building a self-managed company typically takes two to three years. Your consultant will work with you throughout that period:

• Helping the Leadership Team learn how to run the company
• Helping the CEO transfer responsibility to the team in an orderly way
• Facilitating the strategic planning process
• Participating in monthly Leadership Team meetings
• Helping the team design the organizational artifacts of compensation, feedback, education, training and orientation, and profit sharing.

The consultant's responsibility is to apply the principles of self-management to the practical realities of your business.

For more information, please call Lanny Goodman, CEO at 505-884-7300.