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As a good faculty member I adhere to the traditional foundation of change management in business schools which are the works of Prof. Kurt Lewin (change as three steps- CATS– devised in the 1950s) and Prof. John Kotter (8 step change model).
I always start this session with a simple statement from McKinsey… 70% of change programs fail! … Read more
In a TED talk by BCGs Yves Morieux suggested six simple rules to manage complexity and improve agility and effectiveness.
These rules are worth sharing. The world is getting increasingly complex. There are more demands from customers, shareholders and regulators. There is ever-increasing competition. The change is occurring faster and it is getting difficult to create value. Organisations typically respond by adding more rules, structures and scorecards.… Read more
I work in Executive Development, the premise is we help facilitate Executives learning. We don’t teach.
The basis of this idea is how we seek assist our participants ebcome more successful.
A nice concept to understand tis is the Business Learning Ladder which attempts to present the work of educationalists in a form that relates to business people and provides a strategic structure for managerial development initiatives.… Read more
I’ve been involved in Executive education (andragogic learning) for almost five years and have slowly built up experience about how we executives learn best. Here’s me at the beginning as I spent a lot of time talking and not enough time encouraging learning.
Here’s three ideas from my experience
We appear to be in a state of constant change- reacting to a changing economy, reacting to political change, reacting to environmental change… all these external factors mean we need to recalibrate our strategies and potentially change course.
How can executives better cope with change?
If you give your managers a complicated process to follow (especially one which takes time to figure out how to complete and is slow to implement) they will probably do the bare minimum they need to meet that process while cutting corners where they can.… Read more