Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

He works for a large national, not for profit organization in the UK, and it is mired in yet another major restructuring process, driven, as ever, by dwindling funding. Senior managers follow, apparently slavishly, structural change, without a clear vision to underpin it. The current process has been on-going for months.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 7, 2012

I recently ran a Moose-on-the-Table workshop for a major division of a large company going through the wrenching change of a wholesale restructuring and totally refocusing their business. Part of our discussion with this management group was how really bright people can come across as not wanting to hear other ideas.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” and the CEO’s response is, “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But as developed nations restructure from manufacturing to knowledge and services, my bet is on the moms, or more specifically, women — and men who can think like them. Gender Leadership Managing people Managing yourself' Today''s work requires a new leadership paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Cultivating an open environment is tough because people are wired to be conservative, according to James Detert, a professor at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management who specializes in transparent communication in the workplace. “We In his corporate training work, Grenny advises managers to use the phrase: “crucial conversation.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

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