Apr 18 2015
Four Realities of Change
Before engaging in any change process, leaders would do well to review the Four Realities of Change as identified by Timothy Clark in his book EPIC Change (page 111):
- You don’t have all the facts
- You can’t remove all the risk
- You can’t promise zero loss
- You can’t eliminate the pain
What this means is that as a change leader you should not pretend that these realities don’t exist and when communicated will go much further in producing trust in those who you would have join you in the organizational change.
Apr 19 2015
Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Attributed to Peter Drucker (Wikipedia) but popularized by Mark Fields (Wikipedia) of Ford Motor Company in 2006.
What it means to me in “ProjectLand” is that methodology must be created and continually tweaked in lockstep with organizational culture because failure to do so will almost certainly result in the failure of the methodology specifically and call into question the usefulness of strategy/change/project/process improvement management generally.
By Craig "hachiroku" Mercer • Maxims •