Leaders today must understand and apply the knowledge of behavioral psychology and the lessons from brain science to manage organizational change successfully. In the past, efforts at organizational change which has focused on the structural aspects of organizations have systematically failed because they have neglected the reality that change […]
The 8-Step Process for Leading Change
Plan for achievements that can easily be made visible, follow-through with those achievements and recognize and reward employees who were involved. Learn More » Use increased credibility to change systems, structures, and policies that don’t fit the vision, also hire, promote, and develop employees who can implement the vision, and […]
For Cross-Functional Change, a Good Disruption Helps
by Brad Power | 11:00 AM December 10, 2013 How do you improve the whole organization, not just parts of it? The uber challenge for process improvement in organizations has always been to successfully make improvements across functions. But have any sizable organizations assigned people to manage their major end-to-end […]
WATCH: What All Great Leaders Have In Common
Thomas Barta What do you stand for? Why do you do what you do? Your ability to answer these questions is the key to unlocking your magnetism as a leader. In one of the most popular TEDTalks of all time, Simon Sinek vividly illustrates the communication style that history’s […]
Culture and Change — Why Culture Matters and How It Makes Change Stick
The Neuroscience of Leading Change by Creating New Habits
“The task is…not so much to see what no one else has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” – Erwin Schrodinger brain_behavior2 Changing human behavior in an organization is a large-scale and seemingly daunting undertaking. Or is it? Helping people […]
If You’re Going to Change Your Culture, Do It Quickly
Culture change is a bear. The conventional wisdom is that it takes years to change a culture, defined as the assumed beliefs and norms that govern “the way we do things around here.” And few organizations explicitly use culture as a way to drive business performance, or even believe […]
Organizing for change through social technologies: McKinsey Global Survey results
While the percentage of companies adopting social technologies remains high, it has plateaued. After seven years of research on the use and benefits of social tools, respondents to our latest survey 1 1. The online survey was in the field from June 11 to June 21, 2013, and garnered […]
The Curse of Knowledge
Magazine Impenetrable strategy statements can’t unite employees behind an organization’s goals, but concrete language and stories can. Many sensible strategies fail to drive action because executives formulate them in sweeping, general language. “Achieving customer delight!” “Becoming the most efficient manufacturer!” “Unlocking shareholder value!” One explanation for executives’ love affair […]
Can’t change, won’t change – lessons from banking
If you listen to or read the rhetoric from the new breed of vendors, you’ll often hear them say something that was encapsulated well in something Stuart Lauchlan reported upon when discussing business intelligence . A quote from Brad Peters, Birst’s CEO serves […]