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• Lessons in Bad Management: Felix the Flying Frog
  Published 4 November 2009
  I first heard the parable of Felix the Flying Frog in the early 1970s. It appears in many places nowadays and its author is unknown. I think its staying power owes to the many points it illustrates – some subtly and some not so subtly. It has great...
• Getting from Losses to Commitments: The Change Acceptance Cycle
  Published 16 October 2009
  The purpose of this post is to review The Change Acceptance Cycle shown in Figure 1 and to extract from it some pointers for managers caught up in organizational change. The Change Acceptance Cycle Let’s start in the upper left, with a common form...
• Corporate Culture: A Case of Monkey See, Monkey Do?
  Published 12 October 2009
  Did you ever wonder how your company’s culture – that set of beliefs, traditions, and behavioral norms that determines “the way things work around here” – came to be? Or why, when you try to change it, it seems so resistant...
• From Start Up to Shut Down: The Rise and Fall of an Organization
  Published 28 September 2009
  Most people agree that organizations have a life cycle; that, like people, they pass through some identifiable stages. Some see seven stages, some see as many as eleven. All agree that movement from one stage to the next must be managed. Failure to do...
• Strategy IS Execution: Don’t Shoot Yourself in the Foot
  Published 22 September 2009
  Things don’t always turn out as planned. This is especially true of strategy. The strategy you contemplate or envision and that same strategy as it plays out are often two very different matters. Strategy as realized is the result of efforts to...
• Five Ways Leaders Screw up their Change Initiatives
  Published 15 September 2009
  The reported failure rate of change initiatives is about 70 percent. It ranks right up there with reengineering efforts (and for many of the same reasons). The success rate of change initiatives could be greatly improved if those who launch and lead them...
• What do Shooting Down Enemy Airplanes and Solving Business Problems Have in Common? - Part 2
  Published 9 September 2009
  Introduction As I indicated in Part 1 of this post , there are similarities between solving the fire control problem and solving business problems. The basic problem and the basic process are almost exactly the same: hitting a moving target and the absolute...
• What do Shooting Down Enemy Airplanes and Solving Business Problems Have in Common? - Part 1
  Published 4 September 2009
  Introduction Surprisingly, the answer to the question in the title of this post is “A Lot!” Shooting down an enemy airplane is done by a weapons system that solves what is known as “the fire control problem.” What I learned about...
• The Urgent Should Displace the Important
  Published 20 August 2009
  Layoffs and job losses in recent times have resulted in a significant – some might say punishing – increase in the workload facing many working people. Millions of people have lost their jobs but their work didn’t leave with them. People...

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