I am constantly on the look out for interesting, informative stories and illustrations of leadership styles that support successful strategies for managing change – and especially ones that are people centred as well as process focused. In the course of recent research I came across the very interesting story of the man of nails who [...]
From my experience, in my own work with helping companies with strategies for managing change I have found time and time again that the answers to the most challenging business issues, project and programme failures and performance problems always – without exception lies with the front line staff – those directly involved in “doing it”. [...]
Sometimes I feel like the guy who’s climbed the distant Himalayan peak to sit at the feet of the guru and discover the keys to the meaning of life the universe and everything. In my view, in the world of change management and leadership and inspirational motivation Jon Katzenbach, CEO of Katzenbach Partners, is such [...]
I have long held the view that successful strategies for managing change and the leadership styles that support those strategies are <u>people centric rather than totally process oriented</u>. Whilst undertaking research for a section of my website I came across a very interesting experiment. A major business improvement research project was conducted between 1927 and [...]
My wife and I have been exploring the idea of downsizing to a smaller home. With our children grown and gone, we only use about a third of our house on a regular basis. A few weeks ago we had a realtor show us some options, and during the course of our search, he made [...]