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Timothy Grayson

Joined: November 12, 2022
Articles: 188

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Focus Inward, Windward, and on Leaders

Taking stock, testing the winds, and choosing to focus on change leadership To everyone but the few that have noticed and asked: the site has been quiet as late 2023 turned into early 2024. There are three reasons for this.…...

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Timothy Grayson
February 12, 2024

Practice, Tools, Useful

“Do the Work” Pt 3: The Nature of Change Work

Do the work is often dismissive and derisive. But it is good advice for the change leader and manager.

On one level, as an earlier essay exposed, the work of change leadership is to ensure impacted personnel change their behaviour as needed. Change managers execute techniques to gain this conformity. In this instalment, I’d like to explain why…

Timothy Grayson
December 12, 2023

Overcoming Resistance, Practice, Preparation & Management, Theory

People Playing an Infinite Game Resist Change Less

Finite and Infinite Games help make change and resistance understandable

Perspective is everything. At least as much as context. This piece began as another view on the “myth” of projects having a 70% failure rate (the root cause for change management discipline by the way). But since the…

Timothy Grayson
December 5, 2023

Communications, Moves, Overcoming Resistance, Practice, Theory

Crisis? Well That’s a Change

A crisis can invert the needs of and demands on a change leader

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” – Winston Churchill Change management exists for projects because people tend to not change behaviour—not easily anyway. Its methodologies account for individual comfort and the reluctance or even resistance to disrupt…

Timothy Grayson
November 28, 2023

Practice, Theory, Tools

“Do the Work” Part 2: The Work of Change

In an earlier piece, “Do the Work” Part 1: Do The Work!, I encouraged change leaders and managers to “do the work”—after dissecting that tragically overused rejoinder. The point being there is more to leading and implementing change than…...

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Timothy Grayson
November 14, 2023

Plays, Practice, Preparation & Management, Theory

Winners and Losers… and the 70% Failure Rate “Myth”

Winner's Games and Loser's Games... demand strategies for Winners and Losers Games

It’s proving hard to defang this “70% of projects fail” statement. Both winners and losers of very definite opinion challenge it quite emphatically. The pejorative “Myth!” is levied to invalidate the entire statement. Arguing that myth is actually valuable…...

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Timothy Grayson
November 7, 2023

Moves, Practice, Preparation & Management, Tools

Cooda, Wooda, Shooda.

Col. John Boyd (ret USAF) developed a recursive decision/action method that can be used for change leadership and management

Years ago, I found and applied the OODA loop method to the small teams I oversaw. Each team leader was trained to apply the discipline to his/her respective teams’ pursuit of its goals. It was exceptionally successful. Those team leads…...

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Timothy Grayson
October 31, 2023

Communications, Overcoming Resistance, Practice, Theory

Myth is not fact. It’s better.

Myths are NOT facts nor should they be. The value they serve is not necessarily tied to facts.

Some recent change management threads that challenged and ridiculed the “70% of projects fail” myth got me to thinking. Not about the veracity of the statistic. For that look here. Rather, it got me to thinking about myth itself. The…...

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Timothy Grayson
October 24, 2023

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