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September marks Able and How’s 3rd birthday and we would Over the years we have worked on some exciting and challenging change programmes and look forward to many more years of success. Thank you to everyone [...] LONDON — I am still a bit disturbed by an interview I read while on holiday. I have no idea why, while off the grid for a fortnight, I managed to read Lucy Kellaway’s interview with Roland Rudd. But I did. Have a quick read of it and then come back. Let me start by saying that I have no agenda [...] EATON CENTRE, TORONTO — It’s easy to be positive when you’re on holiday. But the 30C temperatures and happy crowds on Canadian streets don’t belong to recessionary times. Back in May, the renowned author and change management guru John Kotter published a short article on the role of hierarchy within organisations. Kotter suggested that whilst the hierarchical organisation had been successful during the 20th century, in the modern world, where an ‘ever increasing rate of change’ is taking place. The managerial processes which run through a [...] One of our management consultants was perusing this month’s HBR and came across an article on ‘The Merger Dividend’. It provoked discussion on the skills you need to engage senior executives in high-stake moves. Able and How is well aware of the risks inherent in a merger. We understand the complex changes that need to happen. And we understand the need [...] Is your organisation telling itself “we need to get better at change”? Many successful organisations are handling big changes – restructures, cost cutting and efficiency drives, or expansions into new markets and territories. All too often, the answer seems to lie in finding or training highly skilled change and transformation leaders to deliver the change. But is that really enough? [...] THE BOROUGH POOLS — There’s nothing quite as much fun as a good old fashioned disagreement. And there’s one going on today on our LinkedIn Group (Change Management and Internal Communications). Must be serious, right? Yup. It’s about whether company newsletters have had their day. Often it’s the most out-dated and obtuse issues that get people’s dander up. Had a good [...]
WORLD’S END — I hadn’t realised how odd an address this is to be writing from. But maybe it’s fitting. 30+ years ago I arrived at a boarding school in rural Ontario. I had been living the previous two years in Paris and two years before that in Kenya. While still a Canadian, I was a smart-ass, and a French-fueled nihilist. The Cold War [...] LONDON — The shootings in Arizona this weekend leave a lot to think about. And there’s lots and lots being written. But even foreign journalists seem to be struggling to make sense of it. And yet I have a theory… It’s new to me, but maybe you’ve heard it before. It’s got to do with the law of unintended [...] |
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