01 May Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE
By Peter H. Diamandis In this post, I am going to talk about why large companies typically can't innovate...
Organisational Change
12 Apr Leadership Expert: Managing Teams and Business Changes
By Scott Steinberg - business2community.com Businesses juggling change management efforts and strategic initiatives as they work to adapt or reposition their organization to cost-efficiently and effectively operate in the new market reality often face a number of challenges from a corporate leadership standpoint. As even the...
08 Apr When a Successful Company Shrinks its Workforce
by Andrew McAfee - hbr.org I completely support the right of companies to stop paying people they don't need any more, but the latest round of recent and planned layoffs from United Technologies is troubling me. Because UTC is doing great; its stock is at an...
26 Mar Top tips for executive onboarding
By Diane Coolican - recruiter.co.uk The first six months of a new senior appointment are crucial to the success of the manager and the wider business. Senior appointees are required to make an impact and deliver results while still learning the culture and process of the...
15 Mar Four Rules for Successful Change Management
By Jeff Durr, Senior Managing Consultant, and Craig Kamins, Subject Matter Expert - thegallupblog.gallup.com We, at Gallup, hear all too often from senior leaders who are frustrated with change management initiatives that are failing. Leaders continue to fall short of their goals with change programs, whether...
12 Mar Leveraging Organisational Skeptics
By Stephan Liozu - innovationexcellence.com Change is hard. Literature on change reports that over 70% of projects fail due to the inability of people and organizations to change. Change is even harder when it is transformational in nature and requires a change in culture and DNA....
01 Mar What can HR do to change the banking culture and rebuild trust?
By Katie Jacobs - hrmagazine.co.uk What will it take to restore the public’s confidence in the financial sector? HR directors have their work cut out to change what’s rotten at the heart of banking culture. Manhattan: a young investment banker spends his days making millions on Wall...
22 Feb The dangerous rhetoric of culture change
By Quentin Millington - hrmagazine.co.uk In this first of four articles on culture within organisations, I explore the three layers of culture and the difficulty of leading change. As the world struggles to free itself from the beleaguered global economy, 'culture change' has become a watchword of...
21 Nov How To Correlate The Skills You NEED With The Skills Your Company VALUES Most
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com Today I have interviewed Zenger Folkman President, Joseph Folkman about the keys to building a great organization. What are the critical issues? If the answers were clear, every organization would likely change. There are literally thousands of variables that leave leaders...
08 Sep What to Expect When You’re Expecting Change: The Social Change Adoption Path
By Christine Comaford - Forbes.com Company Z, a financial services firm with nearly $100 million in annual revenue, was changing their business model. It was a big change—they were dumping one entire business unit and launching a new one. The team was none too happy about...