4 Posts found for Author: Susan Cramm

In thinking about change, I like to use a simple three-part framework: capturing attention, securing approval, and orchestrating adoption. Like any simplifying framework, this has limitations. But it has one primary benefit: It emphasizes the need to go slow to go fast. What do I mean? Investing sufficient time and effort to gain attention and secure approval will increase the likelihood that organizations will adopt … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Susan Cramm | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

If you haven’t read the book Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time, by Stanford business school professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, you are missing out. Pfeffer lambasts the leadership development industry — including business schools, human resource departments, authors, and leadership programs and coaches — for being clueless about the harsh political realities of the workplace, and for promoting behaviors that are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jeffrey Pfeffer, Susan Cramm | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Sponsorship is a watered-down version of leadership, hallmarked by monthly attendance at well-scripted steering committee meetings. Leadership of hard problems is a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves, messy job—a set of skills often left behind as executives move up the organizational food chain and away from the day-to-day work routine.

Content: Quotation | Author: Susan Cramm | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership

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Content: Article | Author: Susan Cramm | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior