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In business, we tend to spend a lot more time thinking about the problems than the triumphs. People need to know that what they’re doing is making a difference, and that their leaders notice and appreciate their efforts.

Content: Quotation | Author: Irene Rosenfeld | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Change Management, Communication, Management, Motivation

In a world facing increasing complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty, it is both good and necessary to be reminded of deeper truths and practical principles for creating lasting change. Winner of the Nautilus Award for Conscious Business and Leadership, this book is for leaders, groups, communities, and networks desiring to increase our human capacity for creativity, well being, and social change. The Power of Collective Wisdom … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Alan Briskin, John Ott, Sheryl Erickson, Tom Callanan | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Jeanie Duck is known for mixing Southern charm and sass with business insight and acumen. For the past three decades, she has used that mixture to good advantage in helping companies initiate change and make it stick. Duck recently retired as a senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, but not without leaving behind ten lessons from her long career.

Content: Article | Author: Jeanie Duck | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: Change Management

Fundamental change is painful. The intellectual and logistical challenges may be daunting, but the emotional confusion and chaos created during such change can virtually paralyze an organization. In today’s turbulent environment, however, change is not optional. Farsighted leaders endeavor to use times like these to sprint past their less nimble competitors. In order to capitalize on potential new opportunities, such leaders are able to harness … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Evelyne Brooks, Kimberly Powell, Perry Keenan, Rolf Bixner | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Five factors make the greatest difference in fostering the new behaviors needed for a transformation. All of them reflect the basic importance of people in implementing and embedding change.

Content: Article | Authors: Anna Brown, Ashley Harshak, DeAnne Aguirre | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Change Management

How do you oil the wheels to make change continuous? The key is managing interdependencies that allow a required level of flex. One of the facilitating factors is understanding what it is that contributes to those flows of information; what is it that maintains that business process and the integrity of that business process? And if we look at the input to output to value … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Heather Stebbings | Source: think Cranfield | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

Start using it instead — to reinforce and build the new behaviors that will give you the high-performance company you want.

Content: Article | Authors: Ashley Harshak, Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

Bain analyzed the barriers to successful change management at 184 global companies. The study enabled us to identify predictable patterns of risks in a broad cross-section of change efforts. We found, for example, that about 65 percent of initiatives required significant behavioral change on the part of employees-something that managers often fail to consider and plan for in advance. Nearly 60 percent of the companies … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Alan Bird, Gib Carey, Patrick Litre, Paul Meehan | Source: Bain & Company | Subject: Change Management

Every leader, to be effective, must simultaneously adhere to the symbols of change and revision and the symbols of tradition and stability.

Content: Quotation | Author: Alfred North Whitehead | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Most brain activities don’t systematically distinguish between an activity and the avoidance of that activity. When someone repeatedly thinks, “I should not break this rule,” they are activating and strengthening neural patterns related to breaking the rule.

Therefore, to engender change among people in an organization, it’s important to keep attention focused on the desired end state, not on avoiding problems. This goal-directed positive reinforcement must … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Doug Lennick, Jeffrey Schwartz, Pablo Gaito | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Culture is multifaceted, and every company has many subcultures. At the top, there might be an executive subculture, trained in finance, which wants good numbers above all else. There’s also probably an engineering subculture, which assumes that crises can be prevented only with fail-safe, redundant systems that kick in automatically. There are other subcultures for middle management, supervisors, the union, and marketing. Every company combines … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Culture, Organizational Behavior

I characterize [organizational] responses in three zones. In Zone 1, we had transformers and go-getters. The people in Zone 2 were lost souls, taking energy away from the organization. They tended to project the idea that things would not work or that I was just trying to get rid of people. Zone 3 had fence sitters, who took no risks or positions. In any transformation … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Vineet Nayar | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

There’s nothing quite as common as watching an established organization—a company that reached great heights in one era of technology, markets, and culture—struggle to regain its stature as a force for leadership in a new era. The work of deep-seated, sustainable change remains the hardest work there is. That’s why, over the past two years, I immersed myself in the struggles and triumphs of 25 … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

Successful change, being effective, involves three things: structuring change, managing change and leading change. I call this The Golden Triangle of Change.

Editor’s Note: one of the best change related articles I have read recently.

Content: Article | Author: Jonathan Byrnes | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Change Management

Instead of implementing periodic change programs, tomorrow’s success stories will adapt constantly to new trends and directions. But how does a company develop this capability? Accenture discusses the competencies, structures, leadership tenets and performance metrics that enable companies to change rapidly and organically.

Content: Article | Authors: Adrian Lajtha, Andrew Leach, Lori L. Lovelace, Walter G. Gossage, Yaarit Silverstone | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

I’m convinced that one of the big reasons for the failure of so many change programs is that by focusing almost solely on what’s wrong with their organizations, and by importing off-the-shelf strategies devised by outside experts consumed with what’s new, leaders undervalue what’s right with their organizations, and overlook home-grown strategies rooted in the wisdom of the past.

Content: Quotation | Author: William C. Taylor | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

Advantage is transient but companies are sticky: That’s why smart strategy should start with your capabilities and then seek a market for them, rather than beginning from the pot of gold and hoping you can walk upon the rainbow to where you are. By the same token, in a conflict between strategy and culture, culture eventually wins. Always.

That being the case, the only way to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Thomas A. Stewart | Source: BNET | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

Most leaders don’t realize that mindset and behavior are the twin drivers of change.

Content: Article | Author: Vijay Sathe | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Content: Quotation | Author: George Bernard Shaw | Subjects: Change Management, Progress

As Charles Handy has pointed out, the “paradox of success” occurs because we need to change before we have to change. However, “when things are going well we feel no reason to change.”

Content: Quotation | Authors: Charles Handy, Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Change Management, Success / Failure