Appetite for Change

I had the pleasure to make a presentation about achieving behavioural change at the EnercitEE metting in Annecy last thursday. EnercitEE is an EU funded program where 5 european regions are sharing experience and good practices to increase energy efficiency and attain the 20.20.20* target set by EU. The theme of this meeting was communication [...]

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The HR & Recruitment firm Mercuri Urval commissioned a very interesting survey about change in SME’s (companies counting from 50 to 500 employees) across 8 European countries. The report, available here , shows that: 55 % of respondents (managers and executives) definitely or possibly expect change in their company in the coming year. I would have [...]

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The wave of democratic change that started in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia and has since hit the rest of the arab world carries significant lessons not only for autocratic state leaders but also for business leaders. The Arab dictators are being removed from power because they haven’t been able to foresee and implement an unavoidable and [...]

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Thanks to Frederik for showing me this excellent video from Simon Sinek who brilliantly explains that the most successful companies are those that “start with the why” question, before tackling the how and the what. Most businesses and people in general tend to do it the other way around: they start with the what, continue [...]

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A few months ago, Stephen Elop stepped in as the new CEO of Nokia to stop the company’s decline and regain its leadership. In an e-mail sent to all employees, he shared his conclusion after having taken the company’s pulse around the world: Nokia has lost time and lots of opportunities, it now needs to wake [...]

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This post is an adapted english version of this french post: “Mais Qui Conduit le Changement à la Poste?” One of my google alerts came up with this quite worrying press announcement about the way change is being explained to the workers of the french postal service, La Poste. The state-owned group is facing a [...]

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Within the climate change general debate, some are being accused of deliberately installing fear and making profits of it. I don’t intend to comment the profit aspect here but the question of carrying alarming messages is an interesting change management problem for any types of change within any types of organization. As far as I’m [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I facilitated a workshop about knowledge sharing within a large multinational. Several middle managers were brought together to define a new way forward to accelerate internal collaboration across regions and departments; what they had until now was a best practices database, more or less successful, and now they wanted to [...]

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4 interesting HBR blog posts related to change management and leadership have been published recently: Peer to peer interactions may be the single most neglected lever of change, say Jon R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan in their interesting post “Positive Peer Pressure: A Powerfull Ally to Change“. Hence the necessity for change leaders to know the [...]

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Version française disponible sur enviedentreprendre I already mentioned IBM’s The Enterprise of the Future survey, revealing that companies are more and more bombarded by change. The winning businesses will therefore be the ones having developed a real appetite for change. Lead, drive, facilitate or manage change: the wording isn’t really relevant; what is important is [...]

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