Resistance to Change

As many organizations and their leaders deal with the current economic downturn, they are also restructuring to ensure business continuity and sustainability. Organizational restructuring, however,…

Many obstacles lie in the path of the development of antibiotics. Only a concerted global effort can maintain their effectiveness.

70% of enterprise transformations fail, yet many corporations continue to exercise the same broken tactics, missing opportunities to transform their complex adaptive systems.

As the drive to abandon gas guzzlers heats up, legacy automakers are finding a new road to profits.

The final critical success factor we must address is how to manage and engage the network of constituencies touched by the change you aim to…

When everyone is enrolled in managing change, a breakthrough in thinking is achieved—and it is essential that your change initiative be organized around breakthrough thinking…

An organization’s ability to manage change quickly and efficiently is imperative to its ability to unlock and maintain a competitive edge, year over year. Regardless…

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…

Layoffs suck… that’s the end of that story. Obviously, it stinks for the people losing their jobs. It stinks for those left behind who get…

One of my colleagues was one of those cold-hearted corporate executives who, at one time in his career, had to lay-off several thousand people in…

These change masters must design and implement a plan to guide their efforts, which must also incorporate their concerns and inputs. With an implantation plan…

Change initiatives may not be as prone to failure as many people think. Cognitive distortions bias perceptions of success—but executives can prevent this.