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Change Management Challenges

Lead Change Blog

Today we are pleased to share a post from Rebecca Henderson. Get commitment to change; then get Commitment to Change (note the capital letters). Finally, get COMMITMENT TO CHANGE. This post is part of our 2017 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. I must confess, I’m a fan of the status quo, even when it’s got to go.

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The real deal on how to join a Board

Roundtable Talk

Guest panellists David Anderson (The Anderson Governance Group), Sharon Ranson (The Ranson Group) and Holly Henderson (Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation) shared their best tips and here’s a roundup for those who weren’t able to snag one of our limited seats. . What is the time commitment? Give it, get it or get out!…

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The Future Economy Project

Harvard Business Review

Many companies, big and small, are examining their own commitments to sustainability in light of America’s shift. Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Our advisers: Rebecca Henderson. Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. by Forest L. Paulson Jr.

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

managers , he said the proportion of U.S. Intel, whose top-level divisions had been organized around product groups or functional areas, adopted customer-centricity in 2005, and its improved knowledge of and commitment to customers has resulted in greater customer satisfaction. Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V.

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Where Disruptive Innovation Came From

Harvard Business Review

In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Not only did the individual commitments harden over time, their interdependencies make the entire system fiendishly difficult to change.

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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

You're a corporate shareholder unhappy with the direction management is taking. And because the railways were government-owned and subsidized, the management didn't care all too much about the subsequent loss of revenue. According to a well-known manual this rule "results in perpetuating bad management and bad policies."