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Top-Down or Bottom-Up – Making Change Personal
Implementing successful and sustainable change is tough, strategic change initiatives fail two thirds of the time in North American business (Kotter, 1996, and McKinsey, 2009). How can your...
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Implementing Sustainable Change – Leadership Challenges
According to the research, more than a third of the respondents (38 percent) undertake a small number of change initiatives per year (1-5 projects). Yet the top reason reported for failed change...
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Complexity, the “New Normal” 2: Leading to the Essence
In my last blog I introduced my new leadership series – Complexity the New Normal. My passion is implementing successful change that fulfills people and avoids the human cost of failed change. We need...
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Problem Defining & The Consulting/Intervention Process
Problem Defining & The Consulting/Intervention Process Calif Manage Rev. 1979 Spring;21(3):26-33.Kilmann R, Mitroff I. Intervention theory1 and the consulting process2 have developed to provide...
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Overcoming Cynicism to Strategic Planning
Introduction Getting people focused and committed on implementing a strategy has never been more difficult as von Moltke said: strategic plans do not survive first contact with the enemy, and hence...
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Top reasons for resistance to change: (1072 managers, 510 CEOs, 80 countries)
Here’s the first findings from research conducted jointly with New Catalyst.(http://changeisessential.com) Click Video link to view Nick Anderson position the upcoming publication of the full research...
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Meeting Today’s Leadership Challenges in a Complex World
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN COMMERCE, IT & MANAGEMENT VOLUME – III, ISSUE – IV (APRIL, 2012 (ISSN 2231 – 5756) Abstract Today leading in a complex world is one of the hot topics being...
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Focusing Change to Win – Global Survey of 1072 leaders – Executive Summary
This report is a rare example of inductive research, which lacks the bias of many change management studies. This is because it works from the “bottom-up” looking for patterns first, then developing...
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Rebuilding Trust – Productivity’s Cornerstone
Globally there is a slow erosion of those binding forces for people to “go that extra mile” . The employee-employer psychological contract is degrading. The degree to which people identify with their...
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Focusing to Win: Executive Seminar Series
This seminar series features Nick’s new book Focusing Change to Win which he co-authored with Kelly Nwosu. These sessions provides business leaders with insights into critical areas to help focus their...
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Developing Leaders for Effective Change
Leading in times of transition is at best a significant and complex challenge. At worst it can be a leader’s darkest nightmare. The tension between what leaders want to achieve and their organization’s...
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Top Down or Bottom Up – Making Change Personal
Implementing successful and sustainable change is tough, strategic change initiatives fail two thirds of the time in North American business (Kotter, 1996, and McKinsey, 2009). How can your...
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Our Corporate Ebola is Failed Change
Just like the disease, corporate change has a 50% mortality rate Boise, Idaho, 10/07/14 – Local management and organization specialist publishes a fascinating new book Focusing Change To Win. It...
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Focusing Change to Win Series – Why do people resist change?
Series Introduction This is the third in the series of highlighting contributions from 1072 Business Leaders and Consultants from 80 countries in 19 Industry Sectors detailed in our book Focusing...
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Focusing Change to Win – Leadership Change Manual – Book Summary
Why is this book important for leading change success? Here is what Bill Connors, President of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce said: “Focusing Change to Win is a must read and reference for...
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Developing Leaders for Effective Change
Leading in times of transition is at best a significant and complex challenge. At worst it can be a leader’s darkest nightmare. The tension between what leaders want to achieve and their organization’s...
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Focusing Change to Win – Why Bother Measuring Change?
Most of our contributors do measure change, but 37% either don’t measure change or they don’t know if they do or feel measuring change is too difficult. So, here’s some evidence why this is worth...
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Focusing Change To Win – How Effectively Are You Communicating Change?
The following is based on 684 contributors who chose to add comments on communicating change. Unsurprisingly, contributors see their people at the heart of any successful change process. They see...
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Focusing Change To Win – Is Your Organization Thriving or Just Surviving?
This in-depth analysis shows the wide range of factors that go into developing the Thriving Organization. Our intent in being comprehensive is deliberate. We want leaders to select which questions are...
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Problem Defining & The Consulting/Intervention Process Calif Manage Rev. 1979 Spring;21(3):26-33.Kilmann R, Mitroff I. Intervention theory1 and the consulting process2 have developed to provide...
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