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In June, 1998, almost nothing at Seagate was going right. After years in which Seagate had enjoyed comfortable technical leadership in drives for high-performance computers, competitors including IBM and Quantum were catching up. The volume part of the business, hard disks for personal computers, was overloaded with production capacity and glutted with inventory. The largest customers, the computer makers, were demanding not only more … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Philip Siekman | Sources: eCompany Now, FORTUNE | Subject: Change Management

Content: Book | Author: Richard H. Axelrod | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Any company that cannot imagine the future won’t be around to enjoy it.

Content: Quotation | Source: Competing for the Future | Subjects: Change Management, Preparation

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Change Management, Integrity

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin – more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Change Management, Thought

People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!

Content: Quotation | Subject: Change Management

It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Change Management

Show me a great company and I’ll show you one that has radically changed itself and is looking forward to the opportunity of doing so again.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Harvard Business School professor Kotter (A Force for Change) breaks from the mold of M.B.A. jargon-filled texts to produce a truly accessible, clear and visionary guide to the business world’s buzzword for the late ’90s – change. In this excellent business manual, Kotter emphasizes a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. Kotter advises those who would implement change to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: John P. Kotter | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Most change programs inside of companies don’t work because they address content (the knowledge, structure, and data in a company) or process (the activities and behaviors), but they never address the context in which both of those elements reside. The source of people’s action isn’t what they know but how they perceive the world around them…Context can be an individual’s mind-set or the organizational culture. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

When change programs are doomed before they start … When old leaders are stumped by new challengers … When change itself is changing …

Content: Article | Author: Robert B. Reich | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Recently named among the “Best of The Web” in corporate training by Forbes Magazine, Ninth House Network provides one of the leading broadband e-learning environments for organizational development. Partnering with respected business thought leaders such as Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard, Larraine Segil, Peter Senge and others, transformation is the keyword for the services and products Ninth House offers. All are geared to help companies achieve … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Ninth House Network | Subjects: Change Management, Education

You know the sort: They operate deep within big companies, well beneath the cultural radar, and are practically invisible to the top brass. Employing many different styles and strategies, typically waging small battles rather than epic wars, they work slowly to change the rules.

Content: Article | Author: Keith Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Every three months, 60 executives responsible for moving their companies into the Internet Economy gather to discuss challenges and frustrations. This group offers a remarkable window into what it takes to transform a big company into a Net company.

Content: Article | Author: Paul C. Judge | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Change Management

excerpts from Chapter 10 of the book, ‘Shaping the Adaptive Organization: Landscapes, Learning and Leadership in Volatile Times’ offers 10 activities that leaders of organizations can emphasize to help shape a coherent environment that can handle constant and significant change and thereby achieve breakthroughs.

Content: Article | Author: William E. Fulmer | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

An independently managed web site of the Wharton School dedicated to building basic and practical understanding of leadership and change

Content: Online Resource | Source: Wharton | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

10 yrs ago, Peter Senge introduced the idea of the “learning organization.” In this interview he updates that idea focusing on obstacles to change and discusses the current “company as a machine” mentality and the more realistic “companies as living organisms” model. Other topics discussed include: initiate change by starting small; change through personal growth; definition of leadership; self-reinforcing factors and 10 “challenges … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Management

You need all five of these critical factors to deliver sustainable growth to your company

Content: Article | Source: IndustryWeek | Subjects: Change Management, Management

four rules for aspiring radicals

Content: Article | Author: Eric Ransdell | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

From the experiences of dozens skilled at making change happen, we’ve compiled a handbook — 10 Laws of Change that you can use to gauge your development as a change agent in an era of total change.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Fishman | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior