Before you Start: How to avoid the Big Mistakes when you’re Leading Change.
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.
3 Tests for Business Books. Or why I don’t own a Button shop.
Before you embrace the business theory of the month, run this little test. And call my friend Kimberly.
Following some Mighty Bad Footsteps; How to avoid the Landmines!
When your predecessor sucked…how not to let that disaster impact you. 8 good rules to know from Bob Whipple.
Managing Great Expectations
Most projects don’t progress in a straight line. A+B+C does not always yield instant success. And sometimes what is created is an entirely different animal than the one you expected to create. And sometimes you fail.
Rolling out your Plan for World Domination? Do this first!
You figured out the master plan to explode your team’s revenues, destroy the competition, and single-handedly catapult your company to the head of the Fortune 500 list. But before you roll it out to the troops, here are three things to figure out first!
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 # 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.
Rule #10: Celebrate the Victories, even the Small Ones
It’s rare to get dramatic results overnight. Some days a victory may even consist of “At least Joe in Accounting only rolled his eyes three times when we were presenting.”
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 #7: Locate the Elephants
What is everyone around you working hard not to “see.” Pointing it out can be career suicide.
Rule# 6: Build a Measuring Stick.
The secret weapon used by corporate strategists and effective non profit/ NGO leaders.
Speed Read your Work Environment, Today
See the bigger picture. Our Free “Field Guide” gives you some key questions to help widen your view beyond your department or division. It covers topics as diverse as “Power Players” “Who’s Buying, Who’s Paying, Who’s Watching”, “Revenue Streams” “People Culture” “Technology” “Bomb Dropping” and a few others you need to know.
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?
What Bubble are You Living in? Billy Joel used to live in it too!
In 1982, in his world and mine, Channel 13 was PBS and we assumed everyone would know that. We were wrong.
What can “Breaking Bad” teach us about Organizational Change?
What can a mild mannered science teacher teach us about employee engagement, brand management and marketing? Quite a bit.