Jeanne Goldie’s Ten Rules of Navigating Organizational Turnaround
Before you attempt any business transformation, there are certain key things you will want to evaluate up front. Your success will depend on having the right people, processes and tools to drive the charge forward, while avoiding the pitfalls, trapdoors and resistance to change. The rules below will help you consider the possibilities! And yes, there are 10.5. You’ll want to make sure to read that last one.
- Know if you’re an Aspirin or a Vitamin.
- What you Knew on the Very First Day is What you Need to Know Now.
- Weigh the Opportunity Cost.
- Do the Math – Follow the Money.
- Find your Allies.
- Build a Measuring Stick.
- Locate the Elephants.
- Understand the Art, Science and Use of Duct Tape.
- Change Does Not Occur in a Vacuum.
- Communicate and Celebrate the Victories – even the small ones.
+ The Super Top Secret extra rule you always need to know from the beginning!
10 Rules for Beginning a Turnaround
Change Strategist Jeanne Goldie shares her ten rules for launching an organizational turnaround. Plus the top secret bonus rule you need to be aware of on day one.
Rule # 1: Are you an Aspirin or a Vitamin?
What sort of pill are you having everyone swallow? And what are the side effects?
Rule #2: What you knew on the very first day, is what you need to remember now.
Once you start drinking the corporate KoolAid, your vision becomes narrowed. What are you missing? You had the answer once.
Rule #3 Weigh the Opportunity Cost
Why you need to run the overall value of any planned activity or change against the resources it will use up. And what is has to do with Joseph Schumpeter’s quest to be the the greatest lover in Vienna.
Rule #4: Do the Math: Follow the Money
Want to know what levers you’ll be able to move and what resources you can access to execute your brilliant strategy? Start here.
Rule #5: Find your Allies
A Human Calculator, a Historian and a Fixer went into a bar…here’s the change strategy they built.
Rule# 6: Build a Measuring Stick.
The secret weapon used by corporate strategists and effective non profit/ NGO leaders.
Rule #7: Locate the Elephants
What is everyone around you working hard not to “see.” Pointing it out can be career suicide.
Rule #8: Understand the Art, Science and Use of Duct Tape
There is a time for elegant fixes. Breathtaking strategies that will Wharton case studies for generations to come. And there are times when only duct tape will do.
Rule # 9: Change Does Not Occur in a Vacuum
You are standing in the shadow of all the ghosts who enacted change, or attempted to, with the same group. Some insight from Seth Godin.
Turnaround Rule #10.5 Know When to Go.
The dirty secret of being an effective change agent. What should you do when your work is done?
Uncomfortable Conversations: The Key to a Successful Turnaround
It’s great to have a vision, but how do you get buy-in? According to Tim Ferriss, it’s your ability to have the uncomfortable conversations. Read the series.
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