Culture Change – Call it for what it is

June 8, 2010

I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately on creating a culture of innovation. But how? How do you “create culture”? Culture is a byproduct of behaviors and actions based on values. So when we talk about creating a culture, let’s call it for what it is — changing how people think, behave, and act. [...]

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Engaged + Happy Employees = Results. A good story of a company doing it right.

June 4, 2010

What a fun week. I met with some cool new people and connected with others that I’m just getting to know. I have one quick story as I close out the week and get ready for a horse show this weekend!
I read this article on employee engagement from a group of people at The Ken [...]

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Incomplete Manifesto for Leading Change

May 26, 2010

I just logged off a webinar I attended on integrating change and project management (it was the kind of meeting where if you were sitting in a room you’d be thinking, “Can I go now?”). The webinar was filled with graphs and charts that mapped this organization’s change model to the PMI process groups.  They [...]

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SWITCH & Lead Change by Design: A Comparison

May 20, 2010

Bestselling authors, Chip and Dan Heath released their book, SWITCH: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, within a couple weeks of when I launched, Lead Change by Design: A Toolkit to Make Ideas Happen. Both of these books represent some of the latest thinking in leading change and I wanted to compare and [...]

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Five Tips for Surviving Corporate Calamities

May 18, 2010

Calamities like the ones playing out at companies such as BP, Goldman Sachs and Toyota do more than just impact a firm’s reputation and bottom line. They also create a toxic environment and do a number on employees in terms of productivity, morale and sense of belonging. I can’t help but think of some of [...]

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