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015: How to Deal with Resistance to Change | Featuring Megan Burns

Engaging Leader

Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. She has more than 15 years of industrial engineering and supply chain management experience. Why can it be hard to engage employees and executives to become fully committed to continuous improvement? ©iStockphoto.com/AnsonLu.

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Four Types of Meetings that Lead to Effective Organizations

CO2

There are four primary objectives for meetings: Solving a problem/coming to a decision; Introducing key information synchronously and dynamically; Generating the best and greatest number of original ideas; Gaining commitment around a change effort. They ought not to share too much stakeholder analysis at the meeting, however.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

From our own experiences in researching numerous companies and managing corporate social investments in several countries, we argue it is time companies recognize the importance of managing the social risks of big capital projects as effectively as they manage their operational risks.