by admin | Jun 18, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Teams, Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
You buy a kitchen table from Ikea and haul it home. You spread the contents of the box on the floor. You glance at the instructions and start screwing pieces together. You stop reading the instructions altogether and quickly attach table legs to tabletop. You are...
by admin | Apr 15, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
By now the benefits of collaborating across organizational departments are pretty obvious. Cross-functional teamwork is viewed as the elixir that enhances innovation, productivity and employee engagement. No wonder companies embrace any structure or strategy that...
by admin | Feb 18, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
A great candidate for the dustbin of discarded business jargon is the term ‘transformation.’ Correctly used by caterpillars transforming into butterflies or by dictatorships into democracies, the word has been appropriated by executives and consultants to signal ‘BIG...
by admin | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
Linda, the CEO of a technology oriented firm, told me her company’s pending merger with a logistics company was a ‘match made in heaven.’ The two companies were complementary, not identical, so it wasn’t about cutting cost (or jobs); it was more about synergy and...
by admin | Jan 6, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
Fast Company recently featured CEOs from major corporations like 3M, Pepsico, Starbucks, and others sharing lessons from 2012 and describing how these lessons will apply in the coming year. While we don’t roll in the same company as these folks, we still learned...
by admin | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog (All Categories), Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting
When I wasn’t quaking in my waterproof shoes walking across a swaying footbridge high above a lush rainforest in Costa Rica, I was listening intently as our guide described the complex eco-system of the forest. Jose told incredible stories about how plants, animals...
