What exactly is a “risk-taking culture?” Creativity is a fragile concept, and innovation will quickly disappear within your company if you drive the wrong behaviours, or neglect the right ones. Although any level of innovation process management is often seen by creative types as the enemy of their production, they’re not correct in all respects… Read more

In my last article, I discussed the five things that effective change leaders do every day. The onus also rests with change managers, who will be much closer to the coalface, and encounter problems even more vociferously than change leadership further up the line. The need for change managers to be proactive is no less… Read more

Most change projects fail. In fact, according to Harvard Business School, 70% of all change projects miss their targets. In my experience, these failures are because change leaders are reactive rather than proactive. When making a reactive change, people are not ready to adapt. The culture isn’t prepared for change. Employee satisfaction levels fall, and… Read more

There is nothing more constant than the continuity of change, and technology is changing the economy at a faster pace than ever before. Businesses that have an embedded culture of innovation and have a change management strategy are those that will anticipate economic shifts and grow with them. The benefits of storytelling in the Change… Read more