change management

Business colleague and risk management expert Charles Wilson writes in his most recent blog post about the vital roll checklists play in managing risk.

Change Study Results Available

Counterpoints to Fatal Flaws that can Doom
Large-Scale Organizational Change Projects

Many issues are surfacing in the results of Merit's current Engage-to-Change® research study regarding how companies implement large-scale change projects.

From the Harvard Business Review:

Business thinker and author Peter Drucker wrote the following in 1992, "…the modern organization is a destabilizer. It must be organized for innovation and innovation…is 'creative destruction'."

This is the view of mid- and senior-level managers surveyed in Merit's Engage-to-Change® survey launched recently.

Not all of the shoes have dropped in the suspenseful experience of recovering from the recession, but many indicators point to continued better times ahead as we began to see even in the late months of last year.

It is an exciting, challenging, anxious time to be in HR.

We've heard most of this for some time — but you have to start fully embracing it if you are serious about being in human resources management, convinced your professionalism is a necessary ingredient for business success, and you are doing everything you can to contribute to that.

What's your reputation worth?

A challenging question for businesses because it is so difficult to measure "reputation's" impact on the bottom line — until something goes very wrong.

I participated in a Webinar a number of weeks ago, part of DNA Global Network's global citizenship series, where the topic of Tech Savvy was covered and the importance of using technology to connect, communicate and collaborate was pointed out as critical to global leadership.

Change when it comes suddenly and uninvited is often quite difficult for most of us.

At the same time, life becomes more difficult than it needs to be when change is overdue.