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The Founders Blog
Welcome to The Founders Blog by Dr. Phil Foster. This blog is your go-to resource for insights into building a thriving online membership business, drawing from my extensive journey in launching and mentoring successful ventures. Each post is crafted to inspire, guide, and empower you, whether you're just starting out or scaling up. Your future as a successful online membership business owner begins here.
3 Reasons You Need a Consultant
First, there is a fresh new perspective to the problems you face. If you believe you know the answer then, by-all-means, go for it....
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Jul 2, 20143 min read
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Where have all the employees gone?
Cohort (2040)Number in MillionsPercentage 0-19 (too young to work)84.0522%Unemployed42.0411%Employed Full time133.835%Other94.0225%70+...
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Jul 2, 20142 min read
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4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 4: Strategic Planning & Foresight
In simple terms, the Strategic Planning and Foresight process helps an organization to hypothetically stand in the future so that they...
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Jun 30, 20142 min read
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4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 3: Process Improvement
——————– Dr. Philip A. Foster is considered a Thought Leader in Business Operations, Organization and Strategic “The Open Organization” is...
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Jun 25, 20141 min read
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4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 2: Alignment
——————– #2014 #business #Analysis #Leadership #PhilipAFoster #Consulting #BusinessConsulting #StrategicForesight #StrategicPlanning...
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Jan 20, 20141 min read
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4 Steps to Organizational Success | STEP 1: Analysis
At the end of each year while many are setting New Year’s Resolutions I spend time thinking about much deeper issues. This past holiday...
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Jan 7, 20142 min read
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4 Steps to Success in 2014
4 Steps to Organizational Success in 2014 | http://www.maximumchange.com #2014 #business #communication #Consulting #BusinessConsulting...
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Dec 19, 20131 min read
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Welcome to the Meritocracy
——————– #hierarchies #PhilipAFoster #flat #Agile #open #opensource #innovation #Meritocracy #OpenOrganization #topdown #maximumchange
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Nov 13, 20131 min read
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3 Reasons Your Org Chart is Worthless
First – org charts represent a structure that bottle-necks decision making and limits agility. If you want to see where the problems are...
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Aug 21, 20133 min read
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The Death of the Manager (the coming extinction)
I was recently involved in a dialogue with some business colleagues on the matter of who is responsible for the strategy and its...
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Aug 16, 20132 min read
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Finding passion and your WHY in your story
Using my friend’s analogy, my story is layered like an onion. With each layer comes a complexity that makes me who I am. I will begin my...
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Aug 9, 20132 min read
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From Massive Losses to 36% in Profit in Only 49-days
——————– #Leadership #PhilipAFoster #Consulting #culturalassessment #Administration #culture #assessments #HR #management #Losses...
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Jul 24, 20131 min read
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When Not Knowing Can Hurt Your Organization
We, as leaders, must understand that focusing on what is in front of us is only half the process of leading. We must be aware of the...
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Jul 22, 20131 min read
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How Delivering Bad News Can Be A Good Thing.
Recently, I’ve been involved in the purchase of a new home. Because we are moving further into the country we decided to take advantage...
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Jul 20, 20132 min read
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Organization 3.0 – Embracing Theory in the 21st Century
As a business consultant and professor I am often asked why study theories and systems that are no longer used in modern society. I look...
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Jul 5, 20132 min read
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Recession and the Aging Workforce
Global models are used to help reduce uncertainty by generating alternative scenarios against baseline forecasts (Hughes & Hillebrand,...
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Oct 6, 20123 min read
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The prospect of employment in the year 2020 and beyond
In 1990, Charles Handy predicted in his book “The Age of Unreason” that by the year 2000 there would be less than fifty percent in full...
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May 24, 20124 min read
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Connecting with Culture | What leaders need to know.
As cross-cultural matters become calibrated to a deeper understanding of how important communication and conflict resolution are to a...
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Apr 9, 20122 min read
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Cultural Conflict Management Styles
Several conflict styles are used to manage conflicts: factual-inductive, axiomatic-deductive, and affective-intuitive (Gudykunst & Kim,...
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Mar 29, 20122 min read
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Developing a Cultural Hermeneutic to Conflict Resolution
In dealing with conflict, leaders should develop a cultural hermeneutics that assist the leader and organization to function successfully...
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Mar 29, 20122 min read
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