Tag: change
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Organisations are full of people who tell you to stop. We are told to stop: to wait for a meeting to wait for clarity to wait for approval to wait for support to wait for proof to wait for another project to wait for another business unit to assess risks to develop a better…
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Change movements fascinate me. People coming together to create change that is beyond the power of one individual, is how all of our greatest social accomplishments have been made. I have started a few myself, both successfully and unsuccessfully. I have studied lots of others hunting for ideas that can be reused. I have learned…
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When making major change finding symbols and mechanisms that help accelerate the change can be important. These elements of your change management plan act as catalysts, helping make the change occur. Jim Collins described the power of catalytic mechanisms as a vehicle to help organisations achieve goals in a classic Harvard Business Review article. Immersion in…
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A short while ago, one of my tweets – that seemed to me no different from what I usually publish on Twitter – was favorited and RTed way more than any of my previous tweets. It made me curious to understand why. Was there anything in its content that was particularly appealing? Any learning I…
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Adoption is the pain point of social enterprise. While adoption rates linger at staggering low levels, critical success factors are endlessly identified, dissected and commented. Among those is the “top management support”, often seen as the key to success. But is it really? Is it true that, to succeed, social initiatives must have a high level champion,…
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Have you ever implemented a technology for an enterprise that had the chicken and egg syndrome? You know the type. You implement a valuable technology but no one is using the technology. As you analyze why this might happen, you realize that you need people to use the tool, but the value is not there…
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