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Check out this article from strategy+business on the principals of leading change management. Since the mid-2000s, organizational change management and transformation have become permanent features of the business landscape. Yet according to a 2013 Strategy&/Katzenbach Center survey of global senior executives on culture and change management, the success rate of major change initiatives is only 54 percent. How change change to your organization be more effective and less costly?
Regarding his presentation at Building Business Capability in Orlando, Nov. 6-10, 2017, Paul answers questions about transforming the business. Check out this interview in relation to his BBC presentation entitled, Fail Fast — Fail Safe! — League of Analysts Inc.
You can cultivate leadership skills even if you don’t have any employees under you. Here’s how to be a natural leader and motivate your co-workYou can cultivate leadership skills even if you don’t have any employees under you. Here’s how to be a natural leader and motivate your co-workers laterally.ers laterally.
Spinach was never my favorite vegetable growing up. That green soggy and slimy mess on my plate just wasn’t something I was interested in eating. “You know there are starving children all over the world. You are not leaving that table until you finish eating your spinach.” Our response was “Get me their address. I will mail it to them.” That was not an argument that would win over Mom.
I believe there are two kinds of people in this life. Those that ask for permission to do something (Let’s call them the “Captain May I?” group) and those that bluntly state their intentions (Let’s call them “I Intend To” group). The difference between these two groups of people is rather subtle but distinct.
Change jerks us out of this comfort zone by stimulating the prefrontal cortex, a section of the brain responsible for insight and impulse control. But the prefrontal cortex is also directly linked to the amygdala and that's the brain's fear circuitry, which in turn controls our freeze, fight or flight response. And when the prefrontal cortex is overwhelmed with complex and unfamiliar concepts, the amygdala connection gets knocked into high gear. The result is all those negative feelings of anxiety, fear, depression, sadness, fatigue or anger that change leaders observe in their teams (and often in themselves).
But if science helps explain our negative reaction to change, it also offers insights for helping people deal with change.
