Michael Kenny
Advocacy: More than Stakeholder Management
In a typical “Stakeholder Analysis” as part of a Change Management workstream of a business initiative, stakeholders are classified in...
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Michael Kenny
- Mar 25, 2022
- 3 min
Investment – Don’t Spend the Company’s Money Like it is Your Own
I once worked for a company who had the mantra “Spend the company’s money like it is your own”. For those of us straight out of...
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Michael Kenny
- Mar 18, 2022
- 3 min
Accountability - Who gets fired?
When a strategic initiative is kicked off there is usually lots of talk about its “transformational nature” or “strategic importance” or...
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Michael Kenny
- Aug 3, 2021
- 3 min
Leader-Follower
I have always believed that to be a good leader you need to be a good follower. History is littered with examples of leaders who...
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Michael Kenny
- Jun 28, 2021
- 2 min
Definition of Success & Objectives - Hit the target!
In previous blog posts, I have opined on the importance of a shared vision and the "how" of strategy, for executive and leadership...
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Michael Kenny
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
Strategy - "I know how"
In a previous blog I wrote about the need for a shared vision as an essential part of any transformational initiative. But what about the...
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Michael Kenny
- May 18, 2021
- 2 min
Vision - "I am Spartacus"
The Fifth Discipline" by Peter Senge introduces the the concept of a shared vision - a learning organization, archetypes, systems...
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Michael Kenny
- May 11, 2021
- 3 min
The "Why are we doing it?" dichotomy.
Some time ago, I undertook a "Reset Assessment" of a very large program ($139M already spent and an estimate at completion of about...
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Michael Kenny
- Apr 28, 2021
- 1 min
Are We on the Same Page?
A 2019 HBR article "The Two Big Reasons That Digital Transformations Fail" by Mike Sutcliff, Raghav Narsalay, and Aarohi Sen referenced...
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Michael Kenny
- Apr 20, 2021
- 1 min
Change Management - The Hard Side!
Change Management done right is hard. "No amount of top-level support is too much", but I feel it misses one vital ingredient - alignment.
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Steve Blunt
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
Transforming - Better or Worse?
Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash In September 2003, Harvard Business Review published an article titled “Why Good Projects Fail...
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Michael Kenny
- Mar 29, 2021
- 3 min
Alignment - Around What?
Are we aligned? That is the question asked at the end of almost every leadership meeting.
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