Change management

Leaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think. Leadership isn't mystical and mysterious. It has nothing to do with...

Our ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties.

A Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.

Everyone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,...

It’s a psychological dynamic called a “competing commitment,” and until managers understand how it works and the ways to overcome it, they can’t do a thing about change-resistant employees.

According to an analysis led by Ranjay Gulati, during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000, 17% of the 4,700 public companies studied fared very badly:...

The real problem is not technical change but the human changes that often accompany technical innovations.

A closer look at four distinct ways to drive transformation.

Six lessons on moving quickly under pressure.

Netflix, Adobe, and Amazon top the list.

Which ones are hurting your company?

What do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy.

The next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,...

There is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,...

Because the status quo won't cut it.

Leaders, don't overlook your employees' emotional journey.

Stepping into a colleague's shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking.

For all the dollars spent by American companies on R&D, there often remains a persistent and troubling gap between the inherent value of the technology they develop and their ability to put it to work effectively. At a time of fierce global competition, the distance between technical promise and genuine achievement is a matter of […]

The rapid rate of change in the world of management continues to escalate. New government regulations, new products, growth, increased competition, technological...