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....
All significant change—let alone innovation, invention, or discovery—begins mostly as fiction. Calling it desire, intent, hope, or what-have-you doesn’t change the fact that it is presently not real. Change ends...
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...
People Playing an Infinite Game Resist Change Less
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...
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.......
PASSION: The Fourth P of Overcoming Resistance to Change
A while back I wrote about and named the 3-Ps of Overcoming Resistance to Change here. I stand by them as they are proven essential ingredients to dealing with resistance......
The assertion that “70% of change projects fail” is a statistic repeated so frequently in the domain of organizational change and change management that its origin and specifics have become......
Of late, the phrase “do the work” has become extremely popular, particularly though not exclusively in the context of social justice, personal growth, and self-improvement. If it didn’t start out......