Organizations are focused on how to accomplish change – how to lead it and how to sustain it. In a recent blog, I wrote about the relationship between culture and change. I illustrated why we cannot think of our organizations as machines – especially when...
Last week I wrote about the interdependent relationship between culture and change to illustrate how our organizations should be viewed as systems, not machines. In a system, change works when a critical mass of people in a system can transcend the mindset of the...
What if we thought of our organizations as machines? Machines work best when everything stays the same. For example, when our car doesn’t start in the morning, we understand that something needs to be fixed. We take it to the mechanic, and there they diagnose the...
In one of my recent blogs, I wrote about overcoming the fear of change. This week I am going to explore two other emotions that are essential when leading change: trust and hope. Too often we focus on the goals of change; what needs to be changed and how we do it. The...
In a survey reported in Fast Company of 48 organizations, 43% of CEOs and 71% of senior leaders had worked with a coach and 63% of organizations plan to increase their use of coaching in the next five years. I have found that coaching invariably begins with either a...
