Organizational change efforts often fail because they focus on top-down methods that rely on coercion, rewards, or positional authority. Well-meaning leaders talk about driving change, as though employees are cattle or cars. At best, this results in compliance--not engagement or commitment. And at worst it simply doesn't work. Drawing from her experience working with some of today's most successful companies, Esther Derby argues for what she calls...

"Equity is a Verb journeys, moving the reader via narratives and voice to deepen how we grasp the very live dynamics of normalized institutional oppression, then transporting us to our current landscape, with case studies across industries of what's working-and what's not. Finally, it trains us with new practices, new milestones, new KPIs (Key Performance Indicator). The transformation occurs when the readers make up in their mind that no Black, brown,...

"Increasingly executives are facing unprecedented levels of complexity and shifting societal, political, and technological dynamics. This new context requires transformational change and fresh ways of thinking. While traditional approaches are still relevant for some aspects of innovation, they are best applied when addressing a known set of problems with reasonable clarity around potential solutions. That is not the situation challenging many of...

Agility comprises three processes, each of which contains a pitfall that can subvert its outcomes: Alertness harbors the pitfall of hubris, decision-making harbors the pitfall of impulsiveness, and mobilization harbors the pitfall of resource fatigue. The authors offer advice to help leaders identify and then avoid these often ignored risks in implementing organizational agility.

"A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world. Johansen says leaders must project into the future themselves...

Change is inevitable, and how we handle it determines a great deal of our success in life. Fortunately, “10 Steps to Successful Change Management” can help you understand change and take proactive steps toward dealing with it. With this handy go-to resource as your guide, you can understand and evaluate change, and apply practical tools that will help you not only cope with the inevitable but benefit from it. Do you look forward to change, or...

¿Por qué hay que salir de la zona de confort? ¿Es lo mismo confort que conformismo? ¿Es posible liderar sin resistencia al cambio? ¿Deben ir las empresas más allá de la felicidad de sus empleados? ¿La supervivencia de una empresa depende todavía de la adaptación? Estas y otras preguntas son analizadas, retadas y cuestionadas por el autor, que busca hacer pensar y descubrir juntos. Estamos acostumbrados a asumir pensamientos o filosofías...

Welcome to Audio Learning by Assemble You. On average, organizations today have experienced at least five major company-wide changes in the last three years, and nearly 75% expect to increase the types of major change initiatives they will undertake in the next three years. But about half of change initiatives fail, while only 34% report clear success. In this recording, we develop what ""change management"" really is, by looking at some of the most...