There’s a reason Tim Brown, CEO of the design firm IDEO, titled his book, Change by Design. There’s a reason Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, titled his book, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is ...READ»
I’m making some people really uncomfortable by asking, “How might we expand the field of change management to take a leap in our thinking and impact change?” Breaking patterns makes people feel uneasy. Oh well. So goes ...READ»
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) weekly poll cites John Kotter's definitive work on leading change featured in the well known HBR article, Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail.
"Although Kotter’s advice for ...READ»
Have you ever asked these questions when leading change?
Our change management process says I need change a management strategy. How do I create a useful change management strategy?Our change management process says I need a ...READ»
It’s clear to me that leading change is the most important skill—for organizations, governments, communities, and as individuals. So I’m fascinated by change.
I used to think that realizing successful change was about securing ...READ»
When I read articles like Bruce Nussbaum’s, Life in Beta, I am more and more convinced that change management can teach us what (not how) we can do to lead change and design thinking can help us understand how. Humanistic thinking, ...READ»
I love the quote below from former President Bill Clinton. Regardless of whether you are for, or against, health care reform doesn’t matter (advocating or disparaging health care reform is not my point here). The quote captures what ...READ»
By pushing the principles of scientific management too far, corporations are short-circuiting their own futures, says the designiest dean of all the business schools. "The enemy of innovation is the phrase 'prove it,'" Roger Martin says.READ»
