The world revolves around change. Birth and death, growth and destruction, rise and fall, summer and winter. It’s never the same from one da...

Jim O’Brien said the Suns will warm up quickly to Vogel . They will appreciate his basketball knowledge and preparation, whether it be for ...

Open-source change management embraces employees as active participants in change planning and implementation. It requires three shifts in t...

In any business environment, change happens. Let’s rephrase: In any business environment, change should happen. It shows you're committe...

Since the end of the Cold War, the military has used the acronym VUCA to describe our global environment: one that is volatile, uncertain, ...

If the daily grind is wearing you down and you worry you’ve been in the same job too long, spare a thought for 100-year-old Walter Orthmann,...

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture. Amelia Earhart Last Flight The World's Foremost Woman Aviator Reco...

A vision is a statement about what the leadership agrees a company could reasonably stretch to be in a generation--a 30-year aspiration... i...

Having a plan counts for nothing unless those above you are made confident that you can execute. As the leader, you maintain communications ...

“We don’t eat it all; we don’t plant it all.” I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People by Stephen Hirst. Grand Canyon Assoc...

Leaders should borrow an important concept from the project management world: Go slow to go fast. There is often a rush to dive in at the be...

Beware of optimism bias: the expectation that the best possible outcome will emerge. This accounts for why divorce rates in the western worl...

While the process was difficult and time consuming, Pete and his crew never believed that a failed approach meant that they had failed. I...

General George S. Patton When you think about it, all business activity really comes down to two simple things: Making decisions and ex...

[Leaders] don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems’ they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations f...

One of the most frequent mistakes that overmanaged and underled corporations make is to embrace long-term planning as a panacea for their...

Companies manage complexity first by planning and budgeting-setting targets or goals for the future (typically for the next month or year...

1. People leading the change think that announcing the change is the same as implementing it. 2. People’s concerns with change are not...

One of the biggest stumbling blocks for anyone trying to accomplish something is perfectionism—the need to get it exactly right before ta...