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What’s your new boss like? |
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With the number of people now being laid off, there's a good chance that you may have a new boss. At the very least you're likely to know someone who has a new boss, or perhaps you have just taken on a new management role yourself.
What influences the relationship between the new boss and the group? Do these influences impact the performance of individuals or the entire group?
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A lesson in change management from the two presidents |
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Why do many change management initiatives fail? The recent US presidential election gives some clues for success.
Much of the press focus over the election of Barack Obama to US president, has rightly, been the "hope for change" that his new policies will bring. But for managers, there has also been a great lesson in the lead up to the inauguration - the smooth transition of power from the outgoing to the incoming president.
This is a change management process that seems to have succeeded where many change management initiatives fail.
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Hardwired Humans . . . and Change. By Andrew O'Keeffe |
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© Hardwired Humans
Mostly from painful experience, business leaders learn that change management is a critical skill. The fact that 70% of change initiatives fail indicates that change is complex and risky. But it doesn't have to be that way-if we manage change in the fresh light of hardwired human behaviour.
A current situation facing an organisation I know raises the issues that occur in most change situations. What would you do to manage the human dimension of the business change outlined below? And how can the knowledge of human instincts help you predict the human response and manage the change successfully?
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What's working around here? |
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The financial crisis and the ever-increasing rate of unemployment highlight the need to foster creativity and innovation. But before you expect employees to be innovative, managers have to develop their own creative mindsets.
There was a nice story in the press last year (Dallas Morning News March 2, 2008) about a 78 year old scrap metal worker, N.L. Jones. Given the opportunity to apply his creative talents to scrap metal and wood, over the last decade Jones has turned this useless material into thousands of bird houses. And in the process, created a new product and market for his employer.
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