Everything was set for rolling out a communication dashboard under the corporate website for people managers. Details were designed, and a budget was assigned. The internal communication team was hopeful [...]
When people butt heads, it creates friction. Friction slows everything down, making it more difficult and sometimes even impossible to change. We all have less bandwidth to get things done [...]
I looked at the long list of stakeholders on the Excel sheet and quickly skimmed the change assessment. I asked the program manager if they talked to any of the [...]
The ancient Japanese art form and philosophy known as Kintsugi may help provide insight on how to deal with rapid and accelerating change. Roughly translated, Kintsugi means “Golden Seams” or [...]
In today’s hyperactive, overstimulated world, the speed and force of changes are the enemy. When moving at a measured pace in either giving or depriving someone of something, we create [...]
Last week, I introduced Design Thinking as the mindset shift needed to successfully guide organizations through the changes caused by the wicked problems they face. This week, we look at [...]
Why Design Thinking is not another methodology, but the mindset you need to re-invent change management. One gloomy day of the lockdown, I decided to reread a book that had [...]
Peter Drucker wrote, “Culture eats change for breakfast.” As a change practitioner, you have likely been engaged to support “culture change” initiatives in the past. It is also likely that [...]
In Part 1 of this article we introduced performance artist and dancer Gabrielle Roth’s five basic dance rhythms as metaphors for five change leadership styles, and examined the first three [...]
Transformational change is the least understood and most complex type of change facing organizations today. What can a popular dance movement program from the 1970's tell us about today's change [...]
