In a typical “Stakeholder Analysis” as part of a Change Management workstream of a business initiative, stakeholders are classified in...

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...

When a strategic initiative is kicked off there is usually lots of talk about its “transformational nature” or “strategic importance” or...

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...

In previous blog posts, I have opined on the importance of a shared vision and the "how" of strategy, for executive and leadership...

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...

The Fifth Discipline" by Peter Senge introduces the the concept of a shared vision - a learning organization, archetypes, systems...

Some time ago, I undertook a "Reset Assessment" of a very large program ($139M already spent and an estimate at completion of about...

A 2019 HBR article "The Two Big Reasons That Digital Transformations Fail" by Mike Sutcliff, Raghav Narsalay, and Aarohi Sen referenced...

Change Management done right is hard. "No amount of top-level support is too much", but I feel it misses one vital ingredient - alignment.

Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash In September 2003, Harvard Business Review published an article titled “Why Good Projects Fail...

Are we aligned? That is the question asked at the end of almost every leadership meeting.