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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…
In strategy sessions, I’ve watched executives exult their vision statement as the organization’s “North Star.” Though most vision statements are pap, having a North Star can, nonetheless, be valuable on the way to success. Subsequent discussion about and…
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…
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…
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…...
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…...
“Make sure you follow through,” droned my golf instructor. A better finish would have capitalized on a beautiful attack,” said the Scottish commentator during World Cup 2023. “Ride the joke to its end,” encouraged the MasterClass® instructor. “Follow through”…...
Design thinking is a problem-solving approach based on empathizing with the user, defining the problem, ideating solutions, prototyping, and testing. Applied to organizational change management, design thinking can help leaders understand the needs and concerns of employees affected by…...
