Successful Change
Successful change is complex, not complicated.
Successful Change Management by Measuring Performance and Engaging Employees
Recognizing that there was an opportunity to drive competitive advantage through its procurement practices, a global food company hired an internal rising star as its…
Improving Drawing Acceptance Rate from 30% to 75% within Three Months
The engineering department of an aircraft manufacturer had been blamed for repeated production delays. The drawings in the transitions needed to be identical to the…
How Doing Little Things Differently Can Help You Make Big Changes
Are you stuck? “I’m stuck.” It happens to each of us: we hit places in our work, in our family life, in our fitness, etc.…
How Can You Achieve Breakthrough Performance In Today’s Business World? Keep Your Knees Bent!
Keep Your Knees Bent Surfers say “If the wave swells, keep your knees bent and ride it.” They are talking about technique for being ready…
Get Out Of My Way! – Breakthrough Performance Or Force?
Counter Productive Behaviors Most of us – or maybe all of us some of the time – have behaviors that get in the way of…
Successful Change: Your Ticket To The Future
There is a common story that gets told in business that people resist change. Perhaps that is inaccurate. What if I told you we were…
Eureka! Discovering versus Knowing
Knowing things has become overrated in the information age. If you don’t know something, you can just Google it, right? Despite that, we tend to…
Transcending the Usual Limits of Our Performance
Transcending the Usual Limits of Our Performance How many times a day do your feelings, your thoughts or your body sensations determine what you do…
Black Swans, Anti-Fragility And Organizations
Is your organization anti-fragile or is it readying for a black swan visit? Black Swan, you’ve heard it, a term made famous by the author…
Social Distancing – A Necessary Approach to Protection in a Pandemic
As we experience the COVID-19 pandemic here in the United States there are precautions that have been taken to protect people from the illness; including…
Merging Two Company Cultures to Research a Breast Cancer Drug
A large pharmaceutical company purchased a company with a molecule for triple negative breast cancer. The molecule looked promising for drug development. However, after merging…
Gaining Complete Buy-In Enables Successful Change Management
A pharmaceutical company was struggling with a track record of every clinical trial being consistently behind schedule. The team was filled with dysfunction, finger- pointing,…