What Makes a Great Boss?
Google spent a decade researching this question. In “Google Spent a Decade Researching What Makes a Great Boss. They Came Up With These 10 Things.” author Justin Bariso reports their [...]
How Prepared Is Your Organization for the Future of Work?
As change practitioners we are constantly applying our skills to shape the future. For most of us, most of our time is spent in guiding the execution of strategies crafted [...]
Faster Decision Making
We all have decisions to make. Sometimes they are easy, and sometimes they can be really difficult. All too often we put them off…for more time, for more information, for [...]
Habit: The Frenemy of Change
Habits are essential to our survival. From an evolutionary perspective, they help us be more efficient by making frequent necessary actions effortless and quick. Think if every time you wanted [...]
Lessons From Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos may be the richest person in the world; his net worth is estimated at over $130 billion. Over the years, he has offered lessons from his own experience [...]
Leaders…Listen First
Whether you are the leader of a change team (or any team for that matter), or whether you are a change practitioner supporting leaders, this Inc. article by Jeff Haden [...]
Slow Down. Find Better Solutions.
As change practitioners, we are expected to have answers. When we don’t, we work hard—and quickly—to find them. The problem is, when we do, it is unlikely that we are [...]
Tough Talk
It comes with the territory. As change practitioners, we don’t only get to tell our clients (whether we are working internal or external, we all have clients) what is going [...]
Teaming For Success
Amy Edmondson, the Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, draws an important distinction between teams and teaming in this TEDNYC talk. It is a distinction that we—as [...]
Meeting Magic
For most of us, the thought of yet another meeting elicits either a yawn or a groan. Yet when they work, meetings are highly productive in terms of both getting [...]
