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 [...]
The Science-Business Mismatch that Puts Your Change at Risk
As Daniel Pink says in this TED talk (The Puzzle of Motivation), there is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. And that mismatch puts your change [...]
Achieving Transformational Change in Higher Education
These are challenging times for colleges and universities. Competition for students has intensified as the number of high school graduates is declining. There is increased public scrutiny regarding the value [...]
NeuroLeadership: What’s Oxytocin Got to Do with It? Part I
For many years, the science of leadership was considered a "soft" science. While many experts in management and business understood the qualities that made a good leader and knew the [...]
What Can You Do to Increase the Effectiveness of Middle Manager Participation and Leadership During Change? (Part II)
In Part I of this Academic Insight™, we looked at an article by Rosalie Kuyvenhoven and W. Christian Buss that provided three “practice gems” for change management professionals related to [...]
What Can You Do to Increase the Effectiveness of Middle Manager Participation and Leadership During Change? (Part I)
No matter what the business content of a strategic organizational change may be, most change initiatives begin at the C-Suite level with defined objectives and intended results. The intent is [...]
How Do Emotions Impact both Leaders and Employees During Change?
Far too often when managing change, companies place their entire focus on the cut-and-dried aspects of organizational change - who will be performing what roles, and what tasks need to be accomplished? [...]
70 Years of Resistance – Part 2
Ideas about change resistance have evolved. There is more clarity around the meaning of activities such as participation and communication, as well as more ability to do more things that [...]
70 Years of Resistance – Part 1
Isn’t resistance to change like gravity? Just a widely accepted force that change management professionals address every day? That’s what we thought until we discovered a 1948 research study on [...]
Why Should Change Managers Reconsider Knowledge Management?
This Academic Insight evolved primarily from the first article by Balogun and Jenkins while doing other research. “Re-conceiving Change Management: A Knowledge Based Perspective” appeared to be a good starting [...]
