Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Uncertainty necessitates the need for finding more wisdom within our organizations. This can only be accomplished by creating a leadership mindset throughout the entire organization. James Champy and Nitin Nohria cautioned us not to assume that no one else on the premises can match our own ambition, competence, and vision.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

” One quote that never seems to be mentioned is this follow up in 1995, where Michael Hammer said: “In Reengineering the Corporation , we estimated that between 50 and 70 percent of reengineering efforts were not successful in achieving the desired breakthrough performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

But the problem with this attitude, which permeates all levels of our organizations, is that it equates “hard” with “failure,” and, by doing so, it hobbles our change initiatives, which have higher success rates than we lead ourselves to believe. ” On the surface, this is true: change requires effort.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

As Jim Champy says of major organization change, "One of the things I always look for is the appetite for change. Fast-paced teams and organizations can become dysfunctional when required to slow down and become more deliberate and structured. Educate leaders about the different pacing needs within their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

This motto is vastly more ambitious than the previous one — to educate leaders who "make a decent profit — decently" — and ambition, as Nitin Nohria (now HBS's Dean) and James Champy wrote in The Arc of Ambition , is usually a valuable quality. Such big changes are leaps into the unknown — always.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

And this complexity happens within a single health care delivery organization. Jim Champy is a consultant and author. When multiple physicians, clinics, hospitals - and insurance companies - are involved in the care of a patient, the complexity can be overwhelming, both for the patient and clinicians.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

When organizations set about improving the way the way they work, the natural tendency is for them to do it within functions. Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions.

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