One of the common perceptions of organizational change is that you need to convince people to do something that they …
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Who what when where how and sometimes why
My three-year-old son recently started bombarding me with "Why?" In the Toyota Production System (think lean …
What is “Enclaria?”
The name is totally fictitious, as indicated by the first time I googled it, zero entries came up. When I was …
Common challenges of organizational change
In my conversations with organizational change practitioners, I've noticed there are at least seven common challenges …
The memorylessness of change
Yesterday, I was doing some preliminary thinking about creating an assessment to help clients determine where they are …
A definition of Enterprise Transformation
On Friday, I attended a meeting of the Atlanta chapter of the Association for Strategic Planning, featuring a …
Case Study: A Roundabout Path to Increasing Employee Suggestions
Many companies try to fill their employee suggestion box. The Jel Sert Company, at the time a 700-employee manufacturing …