Why Strategy and Change management are two sides to the same coin

A critical focus of my facilitation is starting an engagement talking about strategy then finishing up with change management as a means to sustainably implement the strategy. Here are some ideas that I have learnt about these two topics.

Strategy creates the building, change management moves people through it.

Simply put, during organizational change, strategy creates the process, and change management mobilizes the people.… Read more

How executives learn…

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

  • Tell me WHY
Our participants are well past childhood when they were looked after by their parents or looked up to their teachers!
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6 Unacceptable Failures

There is a whole literature about success being born from failure.

And, yes, in essence I agree with this big idea; that only through testing yourself and accepting that your testing could produce failures, can you create a successful business, strategy, approach, career etc.

As a new General Manager, you’ll be counselled by your HR team to be tolerant of failure, to support failure, to even encourage failure as a means to speed success.… Read more

Top 10 causes of business problems.

In the series of posts about becoming a great new General Manager, I’ve written almost exclusively about success, successful habits, success processes.  Its time now to consider the causes of business problems, and consider it in a positive way

Failure and the causes of failure, manifest themselves in many ways but to truly solve a problem you must make sure you have found the root cause.  … Read more