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Cross posted at Transforminator. My wife’s love of animals occasionally takes us to a sheepdog trial. This is a competition for shepherds and their border collies entailing the herding and moving of sheep through a course, splitting the large group,…
For a decade or more, digital transformation has kept consultants and systems integrators, and “Cloud” application, platform, and infrastructure providers in gravy. It has been successful by most accounts: certainly consistent with technology diffusion. Not everyone is there yet, but…
I’ve written about subordinate’s foolish tendency to “only bring the boss solutions, not problems” before. But it keeps coming back and grating. As career counsel, I’ve heard worse. In the right hands, in the right circumstances, it is…
The Structure-Conduct-Performance Paradigm Unleashed! There is a framework dating back to early in the last century generally known as the Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm to guide assessment and analysis of industrial economics. The key assumption is that player (company) performance is determined…
A recent experience crystalized for me an essential, binary nature of organizations: some people look forward, some backward. There ought to and will always be both in any given organization. That there might be all one kind or the other…
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…
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…
“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…
