CHANGE TALK

Robert Galvin, former CEO of Motorola, once said he used to listen into daily life and conversations at Motorola as if they were a symphony. Entering the building, he would aim to understand how the musical masterpiece unfolded around him, noting the dissonances and the harmonies.

At time when change is frequently considered the norm, the majority of literature and blogs seem to focus on how to facilitate organizational or personal change. The sheer number of such contributions seems to infer that change is easy — as if there was a method or a mindset that would fully guarantee success regardless of the circumstances.

Every day we read articles that claim that a company's culture can be systematically and predictably changed. Along the same lines, companies voice

 Many well-intentioned executives fail to appreciate the “downstream” impacts of their strategic initiatives. The employee experience is often very different from what executives envision when they set a strategy in motion.

A recent study discussed on Brand 1 shows that as the processes in most companies become more highly optimized, many organizations begin to more closely resemble bureaucratic administrations than thriving business entities.

We live in times where one technical invention pushes the next one off the market faster than many of us can keep up with. Products come and go but what makes one succeed and the other disappear?

 This week, we had the honor to re-visit Cochise College in Douglas and Sierra Vista, Arizona.

Coaching provides a unique opportunity to help you achieve and sustain the results you truly care about! But what do you do when your schedule is just crazier than ever and you spend more time at airports and hotels than at the office? Online Coaching via Skype or GoToMeeting conference can help.

When we read about organizational change, it is oftentimes discussed as if change was that one thing that is easy to define, and – given the right people and methods – reasonably easy to master.

When an organization undertakes a new change initiative, the project team is immediately faced with one of the most fundamental and challenging tasks – establishing a compelling sense of urgency at all levels of the organization.