“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 [...]
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 [...]
We all want things to be better in our business. But for things to be better, they have to be different. And for things to be different, they have to change. Most of the leaders [...]
Your customers, both external and internal, are asking: Why you? Why now? What makes you relevant? More important, they will ask the same question every day into the future. Remaining relevant is your biggest challenge [...]
"We think that society today suffers from a pervasive uncertainty about values, a relativism that undermines leadership and commitment alike.” This could be an observation about life in any area of contemporary society. It isn't. [...]
What does the future look like? Truthfully, even the best futurists are right less than 90 percent of the time. When you look back at predictions for the future back in the early 20th century, [...]
Let's face it. Change would be easy if not for people. Building the sense of urgency to move forward and getting buy-in for your course of action are two of the most important leadership skills [...]
Sears’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing caught absolutely no one by surprise. The company has been on life support for years. You will see hundreds of reasons for Sears’s bankruptcy. All of them are at least [...]
Why is digital transformation still a big deal? It has been on the radar for at least five years, and yet the majority of CEO’s are still saying that projects or transformation initiatives are underway [...]
Seeing the need to change rarely results in people, organizations, or even industries taking action unless a crisis forces them to do so. Blockbuster didn’t offer a DVD-by-mail service until Netflix posed a legitimate danger. Kodak held [...]
Taxi companies in over 50 U.S. cities utilize a ride-hailing and payment app called Curb. Using it on a recent trip left me with one lingering question: What took them so long? It’s not as [...]
Dealing with change and disruption is one of the most important challenges every leader and organization faces today. In this blog, I join my friends and colleagues Larry Winget and Scott McKain to discuss how [...]
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” It pains my Southern Bible Belt upbringing to say this. Taken in isolation, there is a great deal of evidence that this well-known [...]
In the early days of the personal computer and internet, there were those who understood the tremendous promise that was to come as technology caught up with imagination. Most regular people, on the other hand, [...]