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Here’s An Amazing Workshop Tool!
One of the advantages of working for a large consulting firm is that you get exposed to some great workshop tools, together with their talented facilitators. During my days at Ernst &...
Personality Assessments – Read This First
“When you assume you make an ass out of you and me”. Most of us have heard that in grade school. There needs to be something similar for assessments. “When you get assessed you..." I don’t...
10 Secrets of Change Resilient People
As a business transformation consultant my advice is to organizations as a whole on how to implement, and become resilient to, change. And having done this for many years, I observed that...
Employee Retention: The M&A Achilles Heel
Employee retention is a key component of a Merger and Acquisition (M&A) integration. And employee retention can be a company’s biggest hurdle to realize the expected return on...
You Are Accountable for Reading this Article!
Accountable, responsible. Poteighto, potaato. Interchangeable, right? Wrong. There is a huge difference. Often people do use the terms “accountability” and “responsibility”...
Aligning Leaders – A Success Story
How valuable is aligning leaders for a business transformation? How about $80 million worth? We were working on a process transformation program with a North American executive team of a...
Prioritizing, Dim Sum, and a Locked Door
Prioritizing is about as exciting a subject as dealing with issues and risks (see previous blog). Be honest: just reading that previous sentence, and the words “prioritizing”, “issues”,...
Herding Panthers – Aligning Executives for Fun and Profit
Aligning key decision makers can be tough. Senior leaders operate in an environment where individual competence is highly valued and rewarded. Add to this the competitive nature present in...