Tag: leadership
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Perfect is the enemy of good
Too often, we become obsessed with developing the perfect strategy and the perfect plan to tackle a new initiative. One of the first tasks after gaining approval to move forward with a new idea is to come back with your plan. There’s a lot of pressure on this plan. If it isn’t reasonable, or too…
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Change is a team sport
In early 2020, I was walking down the street one evening and saw this in the shop window of an Adidas store. So true. And although the context of Adidas’ business was different than my client’s, the context really doesn’t matter. Change is a team sport. People need to come together around an idea that…
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Glimmers
Lately, I’ve been hearing about glimmers. They’re apparently the opposite of triggers. Click here to learn more. I love that. It’s a change in perspective. Think about how we look at resistance to change. How often do strategies focus on reducing or avoiding triggers? We don’t want to trigger panic, fear, concern or worry so…
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Simple but not easy
Making change happen is pretty simple when you break it down. Sounds simple enough. No one should expect it to be easy though. It won’t be. It isn’t. Many organizations don’t do this very well. Anyone can help their organization, department, team, and colleagues, by learning how to do it better. Any of these will…
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Ambiguity is your friend
This was the advice given by a wise professor on my first day of grad school over 20 years ago. I had no idea how important this would be or how often I would think of those words over the course of my career and my life. The world is uncertain. Business is too. So…
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The least important work stream…
Until it isn’t. How many times have you felt like your window to prepare folks for a change disappeared? For pretty much everyone trying to drive change, this is reality. For what seems like forever, we’re the last one on the agenda and at each update, the time runs out discussing the ‘more pressing’ items…
It's Change O'Clock Somewhere 