FROM GREG’S DESK
Because your real job is change.
Leading Organizational Change: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Me
In 1980, Robert Redford was still a matinee idol. Characteristically, he broke form. He starred in a prison movie and not just a prison movie but a prison reform movie.
Leading Well in Hard Times
Here’s a link, as promised, to an article that I wrote this spring summarizing best practices from the downsizing or, even more euphemistically, the ‘rightsizing’ of the last twenty-five years or so of the 20th century.
Air India and Leadership: Values Practiced & Value Accrued & Destroyed
‘If it ain’t Boeing…’
Decades ago that maxim continued as follows, ‘…I ain’t going.’
Today? Well, maxims, like airplanes, require maintenance.
Lessons in Implementing and Sustaining Organizational Change: The Rise & Decline of Portugal’s Innovative Drug User Policy… plus a few upbeat links
This article of mine just dropped on Knowledge@Wharton, a Wharton business journal. It’s a quick read (under five minutes) with lots of links if you want to learn more and/or to check my work…
Iraq 20 Years On -- Painful Lessons in Change
How we see determines what we see and I cannot but see this anniversary at least partly through the lens of large scale organizational change.
Innovating Organizational Innovation
Changing Organizations to Innovate. This new article by my friend and colleague, Wharton marketing professor George Day, and me applies my work systems model of organizational change to understanding P&G's successful innovation of its approach to innovation.
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When leaders and their organizations face challenges, there's a lot at stake… The “hard stuff” is often the “soft stuff”— like building and maintaining strong working relationships among leaders and their people. Challenging times place special demands on organizations and everyone in them. Through this blog, I will share insights and lessons from my research and field experience on the perspective, skills, and support you need to handle those demands.