Appetite for Change

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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Guest Author: Stephen Warrilow Before starting out on your change management initiative – some strategic questions to ask yourself. This list is not exhaustive but is intended as an aide-memoire to kick start your thought processes and to help you avoid the 70% failure rate. (1) Have you thoroughly addressed the originating strategic review questions? [...]

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“How can we … free ourselves from our addiction to episodic change and move to a much more healthy habit of continuous business improvement?” is the very pertinent question asked by a senior BP executive, Fiona Macleod, at the recent Wharton Leadership Conference. Her thoughts on the subject are interesting as she has lead several [...]

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Image via Wikipedia The McKinsey Quarterly published an excellent paper by Carolyn Aiken and Scott Keller, that explains why change management theory often doesn’t work just like that. The background to their work is a 2008 McKinsey survey confirming that the success rate of change programs remains stuck at around 30%, more than 10 years [...]

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