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Practicality versus sentimentality: How do you decide which projects get junked?
Happy New Year to you all! As you return to work after hopefully enjoying a bit of a break over the festive season, you may be reflecting on those new year’s resolutions made in good faith, but so...
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Addressing the #1 reason why CEO’s get fired
Research by Leadership IQ found that the number one reason why CEOs get fired was “mismanaging change”. So where is the problem? Since change is usually achieved through one or more projects, let’s...
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What’s keeping you awake at night?
In my case, what kept me awake last night around 2.30am was a smoke alarm which is located right outside my bedroom door. Fortunately the offending alarm was not giving its full, ear-piercing screech...
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It’s not the product…..it’s the experience!
I’ve just finished reading Garr Reynolds’ book “Presentation Zen” which offers great advice about creating really effective slides to support presentation delivery. Garr draws on Zen principles like...
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What does a headless French martyr have to do with your project’s success?
It’s that time of year when the world’s eyes are on France. Le Tour de France is not only an amazing feat of sporting endurance, it also offers a travelogue of beautiful locations throughout the...
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Is the Change Investment Manager the new super hero of the business world?
It’s interesting to reflect on the professions that have risen to prominence during different periods in recent times. In the 1960’s advertising sales executives opened people’s minds to owning...
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Remember the expression: “A bad worker always blames his tools”?
If your work involves change – is there any today that doesn’t? – chances are you’ve been involved with projects. Those who first wrestled with challenging business problems found it useful to have a...
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Is the reality of your change project stranger than fiction?
I recently came across an article in the UK Telegraph which described 20 situations involving red tape. Examples included bizarre stories such as “a 1941 Board of Trade survey that asked women how...
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Does your organization have ‘patchy’ capabilities?
Last weekend was one of hard, manual labour – not as punishment for a serious crime, but because of a desire to fix our garden paving. You see about six years ago we created a checkerboard pattern of...
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A lesson from my Christmas in intensive care
Spending days in a hospital’s intensive care unit after a surprise heart operation was not how I expected to spend Christmas 2013! It was certainly uncomfortable being hooked up to numerous devices and...
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