Leadership, Leading Change
Leading Change in the Face of Opposition
Robert F. Kennedy once said, “About twenty percent of the people are against any change.” Our findings, in working with managers and supervisors tasked with leading organizational change, support Kennedy’s theory. No matter how…
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How to Build a Culture Rich in Creativity and Innovation
Many managers are proficient in leading a team that has a solid reputation for maintaining the status quo and producing consistent, high quality results. These managers lead teams that are good at making small incremental…
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How All Leaders Can Embrace Technological Change
According to Michael Cox, vice president and chief economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the rate of technological adoption spreading throughout the population is incrementally speeding up. While it took over 25 years…
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Change is All About Perspective
What’s the difference between seeing a change as negative or positive? Your world view. Your attitude. The only thing you have 100% control over is your attitude. Everything else happens around us, happens to us,…
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The Beauty of Failure
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, things just don’t go as planned. You experience challenges, setbacks and outright failures. You look back at your life and begin to count the few failures, losing sight of your…
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Reinvent or Die
Globalization, dazzling advances in technology and increased customer demands drive organizational change. To remain competitive, your organization and its people must be willing to adapt, or even completely reinvent, to stay relevant. As opposed to…
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Employee Responses to Organizational Change
Common Manifestations of Employees’ Anticipation of the Unknown
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Eight Tips to Help Managers and Employees With Organizational Change
Guiding Employees Through Change Change proves to be a challenge not just for supervisors and managers, but for employees as well. This adds another dimension to the already difficult situation: guiding the employees through the…
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New Approaches Are Vital for Survival in Business
By Peter Barron Stark “The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock Learning,…
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