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Best advice for new consultants
In this economy, our firm is often introduced to professionals who are making the switch to consulting, those who wonder “What is ‘consulting’ all about? Is it for me?” In the interest of...
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“The Lords of Strategy”: book review
Outstanding! Relevant to those engaged in making change happen – strategy, consulting, implementation or all three. It becomes clear that as strategy has evolved, particularly over the past 3 decades...
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Insights in Change Management—Interview with James G. Bohn, Ph.D., Johnson...
Who knows more about change management than practitioners in the trenches? These are professionals who are vested in helping organizations achieve the promises to the Board (the strategy, “the change”)...
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Insights in Change Management—Interview with James G. Bohn, Ph.D., Johnson...
Change Management practitioners are in the fray of turning strategy into ROI. This often feels like nailing Jell-O on the wall but seasoned practitioners have insights that the rest of us can benefit...
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Insights in Change Management—Interview with James G. Bohn, Ph.D., Johnson...
Who do you seek out when you are faced with something new? Someone who has done it before, of course. Leading and managing change is fraught with risk—nuanced, contextual, dynamic, and difficult to...
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10 tips for becoming a trusted advisor in change management
To be an effective change agent one needs influence in the organization. Influence is built on many dimensions of trust―trust that the change agent is legitimately qualified and experienced to execute...
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Change Management Methodologies (Strategy execution methodologies series....
“Business is a machine made out of people” Bill Duane. In Post 1 of this series, we established that strategy is “just another good idea” until it is implemented and churning out results, and that...
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Are you making a difference? Why change management?
I meet a lot more people these days who are interested in authenticity and making a difference. I view this trend as a move in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs closer to self-actualization (i.e., money and...
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“Organ rejection” and other reactions to consultants
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”—Aristotle A couple of years ago I was working with a great team of consultants (externals) on a major strategic change for a national bank. It wasn’t...
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Optimizing internal and external change management (presentation and tip sheet)
At the Association of Change Management Professionals’ annual conference last week, I participated on and moderated a panel of four great practitioners titled “Perks and Perils - Optimizing Internal...
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