Ted Bauer was nice to quote me in an article about corporate culture a few weeks ago. If you haven’t read or don’t follow Ted, check him out. He has interesting ideas on the state of organizational [...]
Let’s cut to the chase. The short answer to the question of why people are leaving your organization is because they want to, need to, and can. There are those who leave with no plan for what [...]
“It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions.” -William Bridges The Great Resignation, the Great Reset, the war in Ukraine, and even runaway inflation aren’t the entire story. There is an even [...]
My client Jay Cadler at Veris Manufacturing has a saying, “Never resting. Always investing.” The National Basketball Association (NBA) Free Agency signing period is the ultimate example of that. The bell rings at 6:00 [...]
Taxi companies could have created a ride scheduling and payment app. They didn’t. There are a number of reasons why it didn’t happen, but the biggest reason was reluctance to challenge the status quo. The same goes [...]
Hope, we’ve been told, is not a plan or strategy. It is wishful thinking that cannot be measured. You can’t hold people accountable for failing to deliver on hope. Hope is, also, exactly what we [...]
The world is in the messy middle of transformational change, and it sucks. The middle of every change – under the best of circumstances – can create anxiety, frustration, and insecurity. It feels like being [...]
Even if the COVID-19 crisis has thrown your organization into crisis, you continue to feel its impact. The important lessons on maintaining connection, productivity, and engagement will continue for months and years. In the meantime, [...]
Everything you need to remember about your culture’s role in protecting and sustaining your organization can be learned from how viruses spread and grow. Admittedly, there is a risk in using this analogy. It can [...]
Uncertainty and upheaval empower the voices of change, and a drumbeat for a new kind of leadership is emerging. By at least some indications, leaders are listening. A report released by McKinsey & Company says that 78 percent [...]
Disruption and change are everywhere, and you may be thinking that the old rules of business no longer apply. On top of that, the news media and at least one – and probably all – [...]
Your work as a leader – where you invest your energy and resources – must evolve and grow to ensure continued success in a world defined by uncertainty, upheaval, and change. This isn’t about your [...]
One outcome of the COVID-19 virus is that more and more companies are asking people to work from home. We don’t know the exact number, but approximately 26 million people were working remotely before the [...]
We’re now several weeks into an almost nation-wide shutdown of businesses classified as non-essential. People are still making sense of how to get through the present, and some companies and individuals have already transitioned to [...]
The COVID-19 virus has forced everyone into a change that isn’t a choice. This piece about how to respond when change is out of your control is excerpted from Make Change Work (Wiley, 2013). [...]
