Strategy

My journey through change management work led me to The Change Masters  in an indirect way. When I mentioned that I was writing a course on change management, and I listed off several of the authors’ works I was using in the course, my colleague men...

My first highlight in Change: Principles of Problem Formulation and Problem Resolution is “… persistence and change need to be considered together, in spite of their apparently opposite nature.”  It is a fundamental truth of change that too often is lef...

Most books on change conveniently dodge the challenge of culture. After all, changing an organizational culture is difficult. It's easier to deliver a tactical project than it is to change the way that people think. However, Roger Connors and Tom Smith...

There's a great struggle between those who want to manage the project of change and those who want to make sure that everyone feels okay with the change. It's a struggle that's often obscured by the structure of the organization and the change process....

Daniel Denison and his colleagues, Robert Hooijberg, Nancy Lane, and Colleen Lief, are focused on how to change the culture of global organizations. Far from the approaches that work for individuals and aware of Peter Drucker's statement that culture...

Follow the yellow brick road.  It seems like a simple instruction.  However, sometimes, we wander.  Sometimes, we feel as if there needs to be a wizard to rescue us instead of recognizing that we’ve had the power to change our circumstances all along.  That’...

In the game of buzzword bingo, this book has it all. Real Time Strategic Change has all the words that people want. They want the change to happen now (or in real time), and they want it to be strategic. Wouldn't it be nice if all change could be that...

Some things are just obvious. They are just the way that things have always been – except that they’re not. To me, the idea that you’d manage to your stakeholders seems like it should be the thing that has always been done, but I realized that it hasn’...