by alangageler | Jan 25, 2021 | Change management
Big change lesson – Wayward targets and metrics Many a transformational target is informed by hope, not science. Executives pluck numbers out of the air or backwards engineer ‘gap closure’ targets uninformed by reality. Assumptions are made, left...
by alangageler | Jan 25, 2021 | Change management
Big change lesson – Poorly chosen or ill-defined scope Setting the scope for change is a critical choice that leaders exercise early in any project. It invariably involves competing considerations of investments, returns, time and risk. In other...
by alangageler | Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Tales from the transformation crypt It is commonly reported that the vast majority of organisational change efforts either fail outright or materially fall short of their objectives. While this has long been evident in the context of business mergers, systems...
by alangageler | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Corporate functions often mimic Asian telco networks – it seems easier to add another circuit than problem-solve what you’ve got Untangling the corporate (dys)function “It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of...
by alangageler | Jan 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Without intending it, by appealing to rules and incentives, we are engaging in a war on wisdom Barry Schwartz, TED February 2009 Coral was the manager of a retail branch of a steel distribution business, one of over one hundred such businesses in our...