Appetite for Change

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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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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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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This week I enjoyed reading 2 articles from the HBR blogs on 2 very different subjects: Scott Anthony reveals the results of his survey about the most disruptive companies of the decade. Precisely, the question was: “Which companies do you think have done the best job of driving growth through disruption — transforming what exists [...]

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This week: Managing the Transition (of british public service) to Total Place: on PublicNet, the UK public service community website, a look at the new major initiative launched in the Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme. Total Place is designed to map, analyse and eventually improve the way public money is spent in a selected area. More [...]

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My pick of this weeks change leadership related web content: GM: cultural changes are apparently under way according to this article from the Detroit Free Press. A less formal dress code, “dress appropriately”, has been decided to encourage personal decision-making; it’s probably a good initiative when you think that one person called HR 2 or 3 times to [...]

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The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) just published the outcome of a survey conducted among Fortune 1000 companies to identify the Top 5 leadership competencies of tomorrow. Respondents were asked to write in the top five words or phrases that came to mind to describe the leadership competencies they perceive will be critical in the [...]

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Here is my pick of recent change management articles and interviews : Managing Change in the Creative Industries, by Nathalie Harrison, Senior Business Consultant, Sony Professional. the media industry is one sector that has experienced record levels of change and faces some unique challenges when it comes to change management: new markets such as 3D, [...]

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