Resistance is a nuisance. You want to carry on, get up to speed and all kind of people are pulling your sleeves with a lot of questions, criticism and other hindrances that slow you down.

Good for them! And ... good for you!

What would ...

How often have you heard the statement, the only thing constant is change. No kidding, right? Anyone living on the planet earth can attest to that statement.

For most of us, the pace of change seems to have picked up dramatically over the pa ...

Imagine you did everything you could as a business owner and/or CEO to make your particular business stand out and be the benchmark for all others. You analyzed carefully with the help of experts in each field how your business needs to be set up, ...

I read an old newspaper account of three tragic deaths. Two men and a youth (Arnold Dobson, Harold Most and his son Harold, Jr.) perished in the blasting summer heat of Death Valley in California. Sheriff deputies found the bodies at seven, fourte ...

Contents:

1. A Basic Human Need

2. There Are Two Kinds of Change

3. How to Take Charge of Change

4. The Three Phases of Change

5. Transition and Organizational Progress: What is the difference between change and trans ...

Imagine that you are with a few colleagues and amongst the four, two go on a journey. This is not a simple holiday, but they are going abroad, they are hired for a different job in another unit of the company. This will take about a year.

In ...

Every business wants to be secure. No business wants to lose money. To offset the current and future threats to security or capital loss, modern businesses large and small spend tens of thousands, even millions, installing video cameras and meta ...

Change happens. And while we can't control much of the world changing around us, we can control how we respond. We can choose to anticipate and embrace changes or resist them. Resisting change is like trying to push water upstream. Generally we're ...

"Leadership is about coping with change. Part of the reason it has become so important in recent years is that the world has become more competitive and more volatile...doing what was done yesterday, or doing it 5% better, is no longer a formula f ...

The role of underground movements in modern organisations\r

\r Forget about empowerment. Forget leadership training. Forget coaching skills. The way to make a difference to your company is through rebellious underground movements.\r ...

Why is it that some people appear to achieve exactly what they want in their careers and life almost effortlessly? \r While others are stuck?

As an Executive Coach, I hear loads of "external" reasons from my clients about what blocks them fr ...

Managing change in our lives and in our businesses is vital in the modern environments in which we live. There is much to learn from that old and cantankerous Dickens character, Mr Ebenezer Scrooge himself...

The truth is, alth ...

I¡¯m an expert on change and leadership, but my most popular speaking topic this \r past year, and the one I¡¯m already getting the most requests for in 2006, is \r ¡°Creative Collaboration.¡± This is because my corporate clients around the world (two ...

In a high-speed global marketplace that reverberates daily with quick-shifting customer expectations and demands from the marketplace to immediately respond, companies may no longer rest on their laurels or keep doing things the way they¡¯ve tradit ...

CEOs proclaim it, corporate managers repeat it, and HR people say it over and over: it's the "value-adding" employees who make the difference in a company's ability to serve customers, to compete the in the marketplace, and to create shareholder r ...