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Mitigating Cross Functional Dysfunction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCQO0l4AaM With most employees working from home, now is a great time for cross-functional dysfunction to creep into your organization. Take steps today to mitigate its negative impacts. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this article....
How to Use a Change Curve
This is a simple tool anyone can use to assess the state of the team regarding business readiness. Studies indicate that a leading cause of strategy implementation failure is the lack of alignment of the leadership team. Typically, this means they are not aligned on...
Business Readiness
Change management is such an obscure term – it’s really about business readiness. I’ve been doing this work for decades, and I have never really thought of it as managing change. Rather, I think of it as preparing the business for change, or business readiness for...
He is Rich Who Owns the Day
Photo by Julie Kwak on Unsplash My father was a student of men such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over Christmas weekend I was going through some of my father’s things and found this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Write it on your heart that every...
Take Time to Reflect
Take personal time over the next week to reflect. As leaders, it’s important to take time to reflect. The benefits are innumerable, including recharging your batteries, redirecting toward a more focused purpose, improving your leadership, building on important...
Major Change Almost Always Requires Behavior Change
It’s true, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Study after study shows that many strategy implementation and business transformation projects fail to meet their performance objectives. Success often depends on changing staff behaviors or organization culture to...
How to Lead from Home
Remember how big your team is. By now, just about anyone in the world of cubicles and conference rooms has experienced life changing events. The pandemic drove millions of employees home to work. I have kept in touch with many of my clients for the last several...
Activate your Strategy
Activating your strategy always pays off. In 2016, 67% of well-formulated strategies failed due to poor execution*. That’s two failures per three strategies. This costs time, money, and worse yet, probably customers and market share. I recently became aware of a...
Thanksgiving 2020
I am grateful for many blessings in my life. This Thanksgiving, I am reminded of a quote by Gandhi, “For I can see, that in the midst of death, life persists; in the midst of untruth, truth persists; in the midst of darkness, light persists.” There is no question that...
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