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The findings of one of the biggest pan European research projects suggest that senior executives get a big performance boost if they introduce complementary programmes of change.

Content: Article | Author: David Shaw | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Ian Wells reports that leaders increasingly find bringing their own personal agenda out into the open is one of the most important factors in achieving major change.

Content: Article | Author: Ian Wells | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Understand how change migrates from one group to the next, and you will dramatically increase your chances of success.

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Content: Article | Author: Brian Ward | Source: ManagerWise | Subject: Change Management

Corporate identity is a crucial component of all firms, yet it is often overlooked until a crisis forces companies to confront change, argue Wharton management professor John Kimberly and colleague Hamid Bouchikhi. Managers at Nissan and Danone Group took identity into account when instituting change, the researchers suggest, while managers at Vivendi and Hewlett-Packard didn’t. Ford is wrestling with the issue now. Kimberly and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Change Management, Strategy

Jerry Sternin’s job was to help save starving children in Vietnam. Faced with an impossible time frame, he adopted a radical approach to making change. His idea: Real change begins from the inside.

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Content: Article | Author: David Dorsey | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Change Management

Many paths lead to higher performance. By using change checkpoints and improvement milestones we can chart our path’s success as we blaze our own trail toward ever-higher performance levels.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Change Management

Face it, resistance is real. No matter how brilliant or needed an idea, resistance will occur. It is a natural reaction to change. It protects people from what they think will harm them. Leaders who close their eyes to resistance are inviting disaster.

There is a better way: Build a foundation for change. Rather than assuming people will automatically love your idea, add strategies to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rick Maurer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

What strategies can managers within transitional and transformational businesses use to garner sufficient resources to capture new opportunities and, accordingly, sustain the enterprise long-term? That was the central question discussed at Internet Home Alliance’s first Chairman’s Roundtable, an event designed to surface, discuss and debate issues critical to advancing the home technology market.

Content: Article | Source: Internet Home Alliance Chairman’s Roundtable | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Microsoft’s acquisition of Sweden-based software firm Sendit in 1999 is a classic example of the complexities of mergers and acquisitions. In this five-part Case Study series, authors Robert J. Crawford, Research Associate at INSEAD, and Maurizio Zollo, Associate Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, take readers through each phase of the acquisition and integration process.

Content: Case Study | Authors: Maurizio Zollo, Robert Crawford | Source: INSEAD | Subject: Change Management | Companies: Microsoft, Sendit

People change their behavior when they are motivated to do so, and that happens when you speak to their feelings… You need something, often visual, that helps produce the emotions that motivate people to move more than one inch to the left or one inch to the right. Great leaders are brilliant at this. They tell the kind of stories that create pictures in your … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Growth strategies do not fail because of the unknown — they fail because managers are unwilling to confront what is known.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Business consultant and author David Nadler draws on direct experiences with several top CEOs for this well-written book about organizational change, specifically “leadership change.” The 14 chapters fall roughly into three sections. In the first section Nadler surveys the forces that make change inevitable but so difficult for modern businesses. Then he presents several tools and techniques to treat organizational change, including planning, direction setting, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David A. Nadler | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

People tend to support best that which they help to create.

Content: Quotation | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Change Management, Management

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs we may be left without mercy and compassion. In rejecting change and risk, we often cheat ourselves of the quest. In denying suffering, we may never know our strength and our greatness.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Personality / Behavior

Managers are not good at managing change. Why? Because most managers are stewards and not leaders. They tend towards security, stability and predictability.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementLearning.com | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School professor, award-winning author of more than a dozen books on leadership and management, was recently rated by Business Week as America’s Number One “leadership guru.” In his best-selling book, Leading Change, he demystified the change process by distilling an eight-step process for implementing successful organizational transformations: 1. Increase Urgency, 2. Build the Guiding Team, 3. Get the Vision Right, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John P. Kotter | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, People

Change programs designed to improve overall performance by promoting the highest standards in every unit of the organization can seem simple on paper but often fall apart once they hit the plant or office. Companies often have difficulty identifying good ideas and making them stick. These challenges can be overcome. The challenge is to extract the maximum value from the minimum number of change initiatives … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Matthew Calderone, Paul F. Kocourek, Walter J. Mancini | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Best Practices, Change Management

The actual facts are hard to come by. A figure often cited in the press states that roughly two-thirds of all mergers and acquisitions do not pay off. A less pessimistic figure, attributed to Mercer Management Consulting, reveals that of 152 M&As that took place between 1994 and 1999, 70 under-performed while the remaining 82 outperformed. Still, the odds of success are … [ Read more ]

Content: Case Study | Authors: Quy N. Huy, Ramina Samii | Source: INSEAD | Subject: Change Management | Company: StreamLine

“The most important things I have learned about change have nothing to do with change models, but are based on a simple understanding of how people react to change. That understanding has led me to live by the “Three Truths of Change” that I would like to share with you here.”

Content: Article | Author: Stephanie Cirihal | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Change Management

This article examines several Leadership Education Models in light of information age organizations and change leadership needs.

Content: Article | Author: Robert F. Pearse | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership