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Latest — Nov 3, 2024

Psychological Safety for Organizational Change

Guess who’s back?!! I haven’t been consistently writing for months now and I’m disappointed in myself for that. Ironically, the massive changes that my own organization is going through are largely to blame. I can’t say I’ll be consistently writing again but I wanted to

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Nonmarket Factors as a Factor of Change

For more than half of this year, we have been learning how to successfully lead change efforts. Our current focus is on increasing our ability to anticipate when a change is needed. We are deriving further insight into how to bring the outside in. Seeing What's Next helps

To Change or NOT To Change

So, for the entirety of 2024, we have been studying how to lead successful change. I want to take a step back and spend some time learning various ways to know when you need to initiate a change at all. Organizational change doesn’t have to be massive but I

Upskilling your ability to lead change

🔖Weeks 31-32 Resources: Making Yourself Indispensable (HBR article by John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger) The main point of the article is that in order to be a great leader, we must diversify our skills and not just deepen a single area of expertise. 🗣️“Good leaders

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Dysfunctional Values Unite

🗣️This Week’s Lesson: Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Change by Louis J. Gerstner (Chapters 20-22) To emphasize how important culture was to the IBM turnaround, it is important to share that this book only has two main sections: Strategy and Culture. This

IBM Strategy - part 2

IBM Strategy - part 1

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

🔖This Week's Lesson (Ok, the lesson from the last two weeks): Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Change by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (Chapters 8 - 19) At my last job, I attended a one day “strategy offsite” for my sector. This

IBM Turnaround - part 1

🔖This Week’s Lesson: Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Change by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (Chapters 1-8) The story of IBM’s turnaround has proved to be fascinating so far. I think it really adds a lot to be reading about it from