[ARCHIVE] Learning is Change

People fear (and subsequently hate) change. Therefore, they struggle against it like a puppy that hasn’t yet learned to put up with walking on a leash. And the only way to counter that resistance is to outlast it, saying yes one more time than ...

People = cats. At least that’s the thinking when trying to herd them through a change. Like cats famously (or infamously), people have ideas of their own, minds of their own. And no matter what you say or do, it all gets filtered through those ...

In my last two posts, we looked at communities of practice and how they can help enterprises become more change-agile. Today I’m going to finish this three-part series of posts on CoPs by sharing some best practices for setting up and maintaini...

In my last post I introduced communities of practice as a tool for change management. Today I’d like to go deeper and share specific ways CoPs can help companies become more change-agile. ...

The ISO 55000 standard spells out the need for an asset management system that maximizes asset value contribution to organizational goals. To achieve this we begin with clause 4, organizational context. This includes consideration of the...

The ISO 55000 Asset Management Standard has been released. The discipline of asset management is a buzz. Will this standard take on the same significance as past standards, like ISO 9000? Will regulators, investors, insurers, and owners begin to...

These days I hear a lot of talk about the role of culture in change management—whether it’s possible to “lead” organizational change using culture as a vehicle...