Street Smarts for Change Management Posts


Change Lessons from the Green Hornet
Published: 2016-12-20
Darts confiscated, Green Hornet watching privileges revoked, and several decades of reflection later – there are a couple interesting lessons in change I learned from that and my subsequent brushes with danger.
The Fear Factor and Change
Published: 2016-11-08
One of the greatest drivers of immediate change in humans is fear.  Sure, we have evolved since the caveman, but that ancient core part of our brain is still embedded in us – we are still genetically wired to respond to fear. What does this have to do with those of us driving process improvements? Several things actually….
Root Beer and Process Change
Published: 2016-10-05
What does root beer have to do with driving successful process change? A lot as it turns out!
Monday morning, time to start a rollout. How the heck are you going to get everyone to begin following the new process rules?   
Have you ever been on the receiving end of a really poorly architected change? There are many reasons for these failures. Of special interest in this column are those changes that get launched before everything is in place to support their successful execution.