FROM GREG’S DESK
By Topic: Leading Organizational Change
The majority of organizational change efforts fail. Success is an option IF we stop repeating approaches to change that fail…and embrace those approaches proven to facilitate success.
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…
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.
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.
Lessons from the ongoing re-creation of the Fire Department of New York from 9/11/01 through today. Our HBR article based on nearly 5 years of in depth interviews with FDNY leaders and first responders. Lessons for Leaders in this HBR article from 2 colleagues and me.
This brief podcast from the California Management Review summarizes work that I’ve done with my Wharton colleague George Day (marketing) and the connection of my change model and his research on innovation and growth.
The events of the day offer, unfortunately, an opportunity to discuss systems thinking, a key aspect of my book Leading Successful Change, perhaps to good effect.