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A collection of 28 issues

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

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

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

No, I don't want no Scrubs

🔖This Week's (er...last two weeks') Lesson: Deal with NoNos A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 7) Hello! I am sorry for having disappeared the last two weeks. Thanks for being patient with me. In this post, we review our final tactic on how

When life gives you crises, make opportunity

🔖Week 23 Lesson: Find Opportunity in Crises A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 6) This week we learn a third tactic for instilling a sense of true urgency for our change effort: finding opportunity in crises. The crises can come from within the organization or as a

Behave With Urgency Every Day

🔖Week 22 Lesson: Behave With Urgency Every Day A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 5) In this week’s lesson, we learn the second tactic to raising the level of true urgency: behave with urgency every day. While that might evoke a mental image of a chicken

Your Environment Signals the Need for Change

🔖Week 21 Lesson: A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 4: Tactic One - Bring the Outside In) This week’s lesson was about how to bring the outside in to increase the sense of urgency. The basic idea is that people up and down the hierarchy of

True Urgency for Real Change

🔖This Week’s Lesson: A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapters 1-3) Hi!! I am so excited to share with you what I’ve learned so far this week! In previous posts, I went into detail about two different change efforts I tried to bring about: * Formalizing a