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Change Is Good: E Is for Engagement
Change Is Good is a blog series in which Roger Kastner highlights the simplicity in the art of Organizational Change Management and strives to encourage readers to maximize Pareto’s Law when navigating...
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Change Is Good: F Is for Focus
Change Is Good is a blog series in which Roger Kastner highlights the simplicity in the art of Organizational Change Management and strives to encourage readers to maximize Pareto’s Law when navigating...
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Why Projects Succeed: The Right Resources
Project success is dependent on having the right resources, doing the right work at the right time. Presuming that the successful Project Manager will have shepherded the process to identify the...
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Change Is Good: G Is for the Golden Rule
A colleague told me about a technique he learned at a workshop that calls out the inherent unfairness of not engaging individuals prior to rolling out a change which has a significant impact on them....
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Change Is Good: H Is for Habit
I love witnessing personal transformations. This is why I enjoy watching the Ironman competition and “The Biggest Loser.” Ultimately, it’s the moment when one realizes that what was once perceived as...
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Leading While Naked: Part 7–We’re Losing the Business!
In his blog series Leading While Naked, Paul Shultz, Slalom Consulting’s Dallas General Manager, reflects on leadership and the lessons found in Patrick Lencioni’s business fable Getting Naked and...
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Change Is Good: I Is for Integrity
Several years ago I worked for a large, matrixed company that was going through some restructuring, which included the centralization of a couple program management offices (meaning that my boss had a...
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Change Is Good: J Is for Justification
Recently, a coworker asked me, “How do you explain the value of change management to senior leadership? You know, explain why change management is important?” As if it were a game of Name that Tune I...
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Why Projects Succeed: Organizational Change Management
Is change management or project management more critical to project success? Before you answer, let me tell you about two examples that might impact your response. Like many of you, I’ve been on a few...
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What We Mean When We Talk about Strategy Execution
“We’ve been about as clear as we can be about our strategy. Why don’t these people get it?” The CFO didn’t mean it as an insult. It sounded more like a plea. The disconnect between what the the...
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Temptations of a Strategist (and 3 Ways to Overcome Them)
“Strategist” is a sexy label. It means that you are a decision maker—a big-picture thinker. You are someone who shapes the future. Of course, being called a strategist is different than being a...
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Implementing a Balanced Scorecard Is a Political Act
You know you need a scorecard. You know that what gets measured gets managed. You have a bunch of things you would like to keep a closer pulse on. So why is it like pulling teeth to get your people to...
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Change Is Good: Keep It Super Simple
In a famous episode of the sitcom series Seinfield, the father of one of the main characters, Frank Costanza, received the therapeutic advice to say “serenity, now” whenever a situation caused his...
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Make Your Strategy Map a Top Performer
If you’re running a successful business, there’s a good chance you use a strategy map. There’s an even better chance that your strategy map is under-performing. Strategy maps represent business logic....
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Quashing accidental organization design in technology projects
Investing in a major software implementation carries the promise of reduced costs and greater agility, but if it doesn’t fit within the organization, those benefits are quickly undermined. I believe...
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Why Projects Succeed: Checklist for Change
This October, I will be presenting “Why Change Management Projects Succeed” at the ACMP Pacific Northwest Regional Network’s Change Symposium. My presentation highlights the value of identifying the...
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Change is Good: Change Factor Survey results
On October 24, I had the privilege of speaking at the ACMP Pacific Northwest Regional Network’s Change Connect 2013 Symposium. My presentation highlighted the value of identifying the factors that...
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The art of project management: transformation management
The topic of this post was sourced by Dr. Harold Kerzner, Senior Executive Director for Project Management at the International Institute for Learning and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management at...
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Change is good: L is for leadership courage
Successful change occurs when sponsors are actively engaged and committed to the change. I recently conducted a Change Success Factor survey where 71% of the respondents said that active and engaged...
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Change is good: tell us how change saturation affects your organization
Are employees in your organization being impacted from too much change? Through our many discussions with clients, we hear employees talk about the overwhelming amount of changes being rolled out at...
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