by admin | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog (All Categories), Facilitation, Latest Updates, Leading Change, Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting, Organizational Culture
Have you ever gotten in your car, driven to work, found a parking spot, sat at your desk, and wondered: How did I get here? If you ever experienced this, you were probably on automatic pilot, unconscious of what you were doing because you do it so often. Now let’s say...
by admin | Jun 1, 2014 | Facilitation, Latest Updates, Leadership Teams, Organizational Consulting
I’ve always studied teams. The youngest of three boys, as a kid I was mostly a bystander to my family’s tumultuous interactions. While my teenaged brothers and parents sparred in cycles of argument, cooling off and reconciliation, I stayed under the radar, vigilant to...
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...
