Successful Change Requires Leadership and…….
Greetings. I trust that you all had a good holiday season, one filled with Merrys and Happys. In this newsletter, I’d like to share with you that on 2/11/20 Wharton School Publishing (WSP) will be releasing an updated version of my book with Cassie Solomon, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work. This is.. read more
October Update
First, a few news items. A revised edition of my book with Cassie Solomon, Leading Successful Change, will be out early next year. I’ll be cohosting In the Workplace, live from 5-7 p.m. (October 24) on Wharton Business Radio (SiriusXM channel 132), please listen in. I’ve got several podcasts and articles from this year to.. read more
Where is the Night’s Watch?
On March 5 and 6, MIT Sloan Management Review will be dropping the paywall on the MIT SMR site – unlocking all research articles and reports to all visitors. This two-day window allows me to share with you a recent article that I co-authored with George Day on innovating for growth (Grow Faster by Changing.. read more
Salute to 2018
There is an old Japanese saying that suggests: beginning is easy, continuing is hard. That saying seems particularly relevant at this time of year. What does this December bring to you? Hopefully, it concludes a good year with ‘good tidings and cheer’. Most probably, the year also contained arduous patches of whitewater, as most likely.. read more
VIDEO: Delivering Bad News…
“Language derives 70 to 80 percent of its meaning from context. Permanent whitewater shreds context. Communication rests more than ever on behavior and clear symbolic actions.” Notions from my book, Your Job Survival Guide. Our communication tools enable us to dispatch information and decisions quickly. Written communications, from memos to those limited to 120 characters,.. read more
I am hitting the Airwaves near you…..
As some of you know, my longtime friend and colleague Professor Peter Cappelli of Wharton occasionally invites me to co-host “In the Workplace” on Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School, SiriusXM Ch. 132. This Thursday is one such occasion. Tune in LIVE from 5-7PM ET. The final guest lineup is still under construction, but currently.. read more
VIDEO: Sometimes we need to ‘get off the river’
Robert Gunther and my book, Your Job Survival Guide, discusses various benefits of time ‘off-river’. Many of them involve one’s own well-being. One set of benefits, however, accrue both to you as leader as well as to those you would lead. One use of going off-river is to talk. The rush of whitewater can make.. read more
VIDEO: Why we must listen
Our current zeitgeist seems filled with conflict. The conflict includes much of what we may hold dearest. So many others seem involved. It persists. It seeps into our places of work, both directly and indirectly, and even into our private lives and families. Correspondingly, we find ourselves stressed, anxious and on edge. We find ourselves.. read more
How do you build your G-Rig and why should you be thinking about it?
First and foremost, I trust that you and yours are safe this hurricane season. Change used to come largely in a similar, sweeping, all-encompassing form, disrupting prolonged periods of relative calm. Today, though, change drives so much of our journey through permanent white water conditions. Water and turbulence are everywhere so much of the time... read more
My New Book: We Can Fix Healthcare
Healthcare seems never to drift far from the front pages, physical or digital, and, if it ever left, it has now returned with a vengeance as a new waves of sturm und drang surround the handling of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). As many of you know, I have spent over two decades working.. read more