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»
Perhaps one of the greatest Change Leaders of our day, Barack Hussein Obama, has spoken today as he was sworn into the US Presidency. Here are his words:
My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, ...READ»
A visionary leader perceives challenges and growth opportunities before they happen, positioning people to produce extraordinary results that make real contributions to life.
I have begun working with a select group of people ...READ»
Most of my work is with senior managers and executives, helping them to implement large-scale change using participation and engagement to create buy-in and support.There are three conditions that require change leaders to shift from ...READ»
Change leadership starts within, requiring a commitment to self-transformation. Are there conditions that make this kind of inner work especially effective? What activities are most powerful for genuine inner transformation? Is this ...READ»
Dr. Irv Rubin has been leading change in the healthcare industry for 35 years. I spoke with Irv recently to learn more about his approach, and in particular why he chose to write the novel, Dying for Compassion. Here is what he ...READ»
While working at the World Bank as a Knowledge Analyst in the late 90s I witnessed a significant change in how knowledge was amassed and applied for greatest impact. Previously, the emphasis had been on certain individuals, those ...READ»
Most people would be amazed at how much we can really do ourselves if we only take the opportunities in front of us. You don’t have to know all the answers, but if you keep asking the questions, you will get closer.
This is ...READ»
Rod Collins is the former Chief Operating Executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, the largest private health insurance account in the United States, a $20billion business.Today Rod works with organizations that ...READ»
Steve Denning is the world leader in organizational storytelling. He has written five books on the subject. The Financial Times chose his book, The Secret Language of Leadership, as one of the best business books of 2007, and wrote: ...READ»
Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is a world-class authority on change leadership. He has written 12 books, each making substantive contributions to the field. His exposure to 100s of organizations provides powerful ...READ»
Harvard prof John Kotter is one of the foremost authorities on change leadership. I thought it would be interesting to apply Kotter’s eight-step process for implementing successful transformation to our two candidates for ...READ»
In 1999 I was Communications Manager for the World Bank's enterprise resource planning (erp) initiative. We were gutting over 100 disconnected systems and replacing them with a single real-time application.
At the behest of ...READ»
In their book, The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes and Posner, 2002) the authors, through their extensive research, have correlated five fundamental practices that leaders exemplify. The principles include; challenge the process, ...READ»
