Change Management Strategy #6: Company Life Cycle
The better we anticipate change the better we can position and implement it. Understanding a company’s life cycle helps us anticipate change.... Read More
Change Management Strategy #5: Two Pictures of Change
For any change management strategy, it’s important to identify how we and the culture we’re impacting conceptually picture change. This helps us... Read More
Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #7 Effective Orders
Posted on18 Apr 2013
Tagsprioritization, command, employees, executive, formal organizational power, leadership, morale, organization, Pollyannaism, change, success, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, machismo
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Responses to my original Sun Tzu post have encouraged me to write more about important Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of... Read More
Change Management Strategy #3: Keywords
Setting the mood – by talking about change before we announce it – is a change management tactic. Behind this though is... Read More
Stories as Inhibitors of Change, Innovation
Posted on11 Mar 2013
Tagsopinions, change, change management, dissent, facts, history, ideas, Influence, innovation, Northwestern University, adaptability, question, rationale, storytelling, The New Yorker, thinking process, think outside the box, George Packer, Dan McAdams
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Stories galvanize people, helping them to learn, to coalesce around ideas. If we look at this galvanization as solidification, we can also... Read More
Change Management Strategy #2: Celebrate Anniversaries
When we strategize about change on a large scale, as with more tactical changes it’s important to pick the right moment. There... Read More
Best Sun Tzu Quote: Pinnacle of Skill
Posted on18 Feb 2013
Tagsapproaches, change, change management, coaching, employees, fear, fun, ignorance, inertia, Influence, leadership, management, management by walking around, military, problem solving, resistance to change, training, uncertainty, warfare, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series
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Before his writings became a business management guide, I had read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War back in the early eighties.... Read More
Creative Innovation (Pt 13): Overcoming Biases
One of the points Giovanni Gavetti makes in “The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership” (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2011 edition) about associative... Read More
Creative Innovation (Pt 9): Pessimism’s Positivity
Imagine one chess player who can see nine moves ahead and another who can only see two. Which is more likely to... Read More
Creative Innovation (Pt 8): Guidelines over Rules
The culture we develop greatly influences employees. An innovative culture will encourage employees to be innovative. All right, how do we do... Read More
