ALTFELD INC.

1. Create a culture that promotes and fosters communication, cooperation, and collaboration; gets your employees involved and inspired; and rewards teamwork, accountability, continuous improvement and a commitment to your internal and external customers.
2. Build a strong second tier management team.
3. Create a top down/bottom up understanding and alignment of where the company is going and what each of your employees need to do and contribute to get it there.
4. Get everyone pulling on the same rope in the same direction and working as one corporate team.

Dear Visitor,

Your business is in a constant state of becoming. No company actually ever gets there. The only thing you can count on is that the future is going to be full of surprises. Whether they are good or bad surprises will depend upon the tough decisions you make, the difficult questions you ask and your ability to think about the future. The problem is that companies often miss the future when they mistake temporary for timeless or permanent. They miss the future when they invest too much in the What Is at the expense of the What Could Be.

"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted."
-Albert Einstein

The fact is that having a culture that goes on blind faith, gut feel, desire, and conformity without truly considering the short or long-term consequences, good or bad, of the decisions made is not acceptable. Creating a strategically aligned, horizontally integrated, customer focused, interdependent and synergistic company operated by self-managed employees is the ultimate goal. Thinking, reasoning, discerning your company’s realities, achieving full disclosure and coming to effective solutions, conclusions and decisions based upon options available and their outcomes is not only acceptable but greatly encouraged. Creating extraordinary systems and processes operated by informed, involved, inspired, freethinking, innovative, creative and passionate employees will not only produce sensational results, but will ensure continued success. To be able to question and challenge your own beliefs, thoughts and ideas are wonderful and exciting. Understanding that profitability is the score, not the game itself frees your mind to think in terms of a bigger picture.

“Knowledge is like a candle. When I light your candle from mine, my light does not diminish.” Thomas Jefferson

The problem with most companies is that too much power has been vested in too few people and those too few people are making critical decisions that do not reflect the collective knowledge of your company. The time has come to allow your people to think, be heard and be innovative, without your giving up discipline, performance, accountability or control. The time has come to focus on communication, cooperation and collaboration. The time has come for everyone to be responsible, accountable and self-managed. If a major goal is to eliminate the need for a QC department by having every employee being held responsible for quality, why can’t we do the same when it comes to supervision? The time has come to re-examine the role of management and to look upon it in a new light. The time has come to eliminate, or at least re-evaluate the need for supervision.

What Does Altfeld Inc. Do?

We help you to make the company less dependent upon you by getting everyone involved, informed and inspired. We do it by working with you to build a strong second tier management team of institutional minded managers and great leaders resulting in the growth and development of your people and the effective management of innovative systems and processes. We do it through strategically aligned, interim management, and concinnity: the skillful blending and arrangement of all the parts that results in a harmonious, strategically aligned, horizontally integrated accord. We do it by helping you to identify the new future challenges and what they have in store for your company. We help you to identify and deal with tomorrow's problems that you need to start working on today.

Finally, we do it by helping you to create a culture of:

Learning
Trust
Interdependence
Synergy
Transparency
Loyalty
Respect
Belonging
Caring
Fun

Companies are successful until they are not. Our question to you is, “What are you doing to ensure that your company will always be successful even when you are no longer there?”

To learn more about us, what we do, how we do it and what additional things you need to be thinking about, we encourage you to spend some time on our web site, especially the library. There are a great many useful tools of information up there and feel free to help yourself to anything you find of interest or can use. Also feel free to call us directly at (818) 216-2903 or 1-800-397-0010 to discuss any of your thoughts, concerns or future needs.

Thank you for your time, interest and consideration. I certainly look forward to hearing from you.

Yours truly,
Jim Altfeld
President