Our e-mail conversation was short yet eye-opening. It actually lasted for a few weeks, with incremental responses only exchanged every couple of days. But only this week I figured out that both, my colleague and I, were engaged in entirely different conversations. The topic was simple – a video that I needed to turn into… Read More »
In the first posting of this series, I discussed ChatGPT’s support for creative work and inspiration. In this second posting, I would like to highlight ChatGPTs ability to analyze content and thereby support the work as a change manager. To keep it practical, let us again take an example to look at ways of using… Read More »
With the launch of hashtag#ChatGPT by OpenAI, artificial intelligence has received a major boost in both day-to-day application and public awareness/discourse. I have started experimenting with ChatGPT quite intensely and would like to touch on the potential of recent AI developments in change management in a few posts over the next weeks. As a large… Read More »
We have all read it, probably even plenty of times: ‘70% of all change initiatives fail’. Indeed, this “fact” celebrates its 30th birthday next year (Hammer and Champy, Reengineering the Corporation, 1993). It appears in virtually every article of the HBR’s ‘10 Must Reads on Change Management‘ (2010), and the likes of McKinsey and Deloitte… Read More »
The name might sound strange, but I’m sure you have come across this effect many times in your daily private and business life: Lake Wobegon Effect (in social psychology also called illusory superiority). It describes the human tendency to overestimate one’s own abilities and achievements in relation to others. Among many others, it has been… Read More »
The name might sound strange, but I’m sure you have come across this effect many times in your daily private and business life: Lake Wobegon Effect (in social psychology also called illusory superiority). It describes the human tendency to overestimate one’s own abilities and achievements in relation to others. Among many others, it has been… Read More »
I felt inspired this week by an opinion piece written by Jan C. Weilbacher in this month’s issue of Changement (German only) and want to share these insights. In his article, Jan tries to encourage the transfer of learnings and best practices from marketing to change management. To underpin this he differentiates the dark side… Read More »
Communicating change is true teamwork. Changing routines – sometimes even beliefs and mindsets – is not an easy (t)ask, and it takes constant communication, education, and leadership to make it happen. I keep emphasizing that all organizational change is nothing less but the sum of many small and individual changes. And convincing an individual to… Read More »
I recently stumbled across the story of E.F. Borisch. He was a product manager for Milwaukee Gear Company – a middle-size gearbox manufacturer in the US. Apparently frustrated with the level of progress in his own company, he sat down and wrote the article Fifty Reasons Why We Cannot Change which was published in the… Read More »
When you look around your organisation at the moment, there is one fact hard to ignore – change weariness is increasing. It was even before Corona but is now receiving a critical push with the pandemic. When you reflect on your own situation, you might even notice it in your own thinking and behaviour. And… Read More »