Change Is Loss
Even after reading all of the greatest hits in the change management literature, I somehow missed the punchline: people experience change as loss. There is already a model for understanding…
Category: Business
Vision of a Fundamentally Different Future
The following is an except from the book, From Healthcare at a Turning Point: A Roadmap for Change by Rita E. Numerof. It’s the year 2024. It’s hard to believe…
Don’t Be Bashful
The larger the company the less agile they are. This is a basic truism of business. In fact, companies often spend millions of dollars trying to improve processes, streamline workflows,…
Unspoken Business Rules
I was going to write about some recent consulting experiences, but remembered that I’ve already written about this. I think these rules may be timeless. Like viruses that have been…
Consultants: A Necessary Evil?
I’ve read several books on how to negotiate in business. They all pretty much say the thing. Of course, the grand-daddy of all of these is “What Color is Your…
Rule 4: Never Question Anything
A friend of mine recently recounted a story at her work that sums up Unspoken Business Rule #4 very well: never question anything. She works at a large format printing…
Rule 1: Use It Or Lose It
In the middle of just about every conference room where budget decisions are made sits a big, fat elephant. People sometimes glance at it or whisper to their peers about…
Rule 3: Advantage Business
One of the reasons that the corporation is generally opposed to collective bargaining is because it empowers workers and balances the power equation. Unspoken Business Rule #3 maintains that the…
Rule 2: Mediocrity Is Rewarded
It’s been eight years since I began my life as a professional in the American workplace. Most of my time (95%) has been spent as a management consultant. Management consulting…
Week One
Week one – it’s almost over. After hearing the client call me the overall project manager for their enterprise-wide data warehousing project … I threw up all over her. Well,…