Before you can lead other people through change you first need to manage and direct changes in your own behaviour. Consider two examples of change,…

Great leaders make change happen. But what are the characteristics that make them so effective? In essence, there are just five, though none of them…

When one major utilities company, with huge production sites, decided to introduce tricycles to get around site they knew there would be resistance to the…

The Trouble with Change is… is a video that sums up humorously The 5 Forces of Change approach to change management. It has had over…

The story goes back to 1971, but is still alive today. In 1971, Rick Barry, a professional NBA (National Basketball Association) basketball player in the…

We all recall how Ebenezer Scrooge is miraculously transformed in ‘A Christmas Carol’. But have you ever wondered how you could conjure up similar transformation…

A recent Radiolab podcast http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/  deals with the idea of ‘Emergence’ – how patterns of intelligent behaviour emerge in the absence of leaders. A colony…

I hope this makes you smile (or wince) – “The Trouble with Change…” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esXwnno9jns  Based on the famous comedy sketch by John Cleese,…

For many people change management seems like an invention created to keep consultants and Human Resource professionals in business. They wonder why we need change management…

Change can, and does, cause people stress, providing a strong motive for resistance, whether passive (avoidance) or active (opposition). This is not, however, universally true;…