Profile
of a Change Leader: Barbara Tulipane
In
August I attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Marvin Gaye Park in NorthEast
Washington, DC. Since I first moved to DC in the late 80s this park has been
known as "Needle ...READ»
I was in Chicago today at IBTTA's annual conference on the Transformation of Transportation. Robert Atkinson spoke. He is President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a policy think-tank, and author of The ...READ»
Success at leading change – dramatic, sustained improvement – is largely determined by a leader’s capacity to engage others in a mutually supported vision of the future. Engagement means getting people’s whole-hearted support ...READ»
4% of an hour is 2 minutes and 24 seconds. Do you have an extra 1/25 of an hour for the most important activity of your life? You get to decide what the activity is. Maybe it's working on your new strategic partnership to ...READ»
It is my pleasure to introduce guest blogger, Holly G. Green. Enjoy her post below. -SethRemember The One
Minute Manager? The all time best selling management book was written more than
twenty five years ago. Pause ...READ»
When you are kicking off a new change initiative, the highest leverage activity bar none is face-to-face engagement with your key opinion leaders. Don't make the mistake of writing emails, designing brochures, putting together ...READ»
When it comes to personal
performance the secret to doing more with less is rhythm. If you have ever tapped your toes to a
beat you have experienced what every good drummer relies on: the power of the
groove.
First the ...READ»
The new season is here. Kids are back in school. September starts tomorrow. We are one month away from the last quarter of 2009.
This is my favorite time of year, and not just because the summer heat in Washington DC begins to ...READ»
I was working with a change leader who was nearing exhaustion because his work was demanding so much. I told him he needed to get some rest. He told me he didn’t have time. He’ll get his job done. But, it might cost him his ...READ»
I recently caught up with leadership guru, Steve Denning, author of award-winning books like The Secret Language of Leadership, and asked him about his new ideas on delighting clients.Seth: So Steve, what’s all this about ...READ»
Maps are a good thing. They help you avoid difficult areas, or prepare for them. They make it possible to weigh the advantages of the long route vs the short one. And when you are faced with unplanned interruptions, they can get you ...READ»
Would you like to accelerate achievement of mission critical strategic goals and initiatives? You can! It is as simple as creating environments that encourage people to work from their natural effectiveness. Read on to learn how.READ»
Meetings are a core ritual in today's work world. Everyone is trying to figure out how to do them better. There is this temptation to think, 'if only I follow this easy-to-understand guide, my meetings will once again become useful, ...READ»
Between 1995 and 1997 I participated in two distinctly different change initiatives at the World Bank, both called Knowledge Management. The first one never took off. The second one changed the organization, and the world, in two ...READ»
This column is called Leading Change and is written for people taking the reins in their hands, whether by choice or not. In organizations today it is often the latter.
Circumstances are not what we would like them to be. ...READ»
At this point in our economic distress cycle, most have trimmed so much fat they are in danger of cutting muscle. Yet, the challenges continue. A good friend who works at the Fed reminded me yesterday at our sons' soccer game that the ...READ»
I am excited about working with Steve Denning. So excited that I will be engaging him in a free teleseminar this Monday at noon to talk more about it. If others feel like I do, there'll soon be more.
I first joined forces with ...READ»
Do you ever get the feeling something is missing? In the best instances, it often is.
"Grand elegance comes not out of control, but from chaos," said Matthew May when I spoke to him about his amazing new book, In ...READ»
When the world is in a crucible, new forms are birthed. The previous order is reshuffled. Some at the top disappear. Visionaries emerge from the periphery. America has long looked to the business world for its visionaries, but some ...READ»
With so many jobs in the balance and their fingers in so many pies I don't want any of the top three automakers, Chrysler, GM, or Ford, to fold up their tents. One way or another I want them get their acts together and turn ...READ»
Many of us wish we could just go back in time, before all this turmoil started. Before the mortgages went bad, before the stock market tanked, before the massive layoffs. But, there is no going back, only forward. Whatever happens we ...READ»
Obama is arguably the most visible change leader on the planet with the biggest agenda. However, the Republicans in the US are also looking for change as they work to rebuild their party after experiencing the 2008 ...READ»
Organizational storytellers are gathering again in Washington, DC this spring just in time for the cherry blossoms. This, their 9th year, promises a tour de force on the power of narrative to generate solutions for our troubled ...READ»
Philip Anschutz, the American businessman with an estimated net worth of $7.8 billion, started in the oil business drilling his own wells. His first efforts in the 60s were unsuccessful, turning up one dry hole after another. When ...READ»
The danger in this crisis is not that we will not solve it. The danger is that we think too small – that we do not see the extraordinary opportunity it presents.If we spend our energy hunkering down, trying to maintain and preserve ...READ»
