Why Traditional Apporach To Business Transformation Don't Work Anymore? Over 60% of companies out there are operating on a dated buisness model and 20% operating with a mental model that had expired for more than 5 years. There are little reasons for those 20% of companies to survie another 5 years or even 3 and for the other 60% they have a short window of opportunity to design and orchestrate their transformation. Rapid changes in external environment, consumer behavior, global economics and disruptive technologies are throwing off the most rigor business strategies and the best trained managers. Although everyone expect to see big changes ahead but people reacts differently to change. Many people become accustomed to the status quo and don't want to alter the way things are being done -- regardless of the potential benefits or the disruptive threats from emerging competition.
For many, fear of the unknowns and the concerned about the ramifications on their careers are barriers to acknowlege the need for change. People don't like change. 7 compelling arguments for peer learning. Learning lurches between extremes: the formal v informal, didactic v discover , self-paced v social, teaching v learning. But is there a bridge between these extremes, something that cleverly combines teaching and learning? Over the years, starting with Judith Harris’s brilliant (and shocking) work on peer pressure, then Eric Mazur’s work at Harvard but also through several presentations at a recent JISC E-assessment conference, I’ve been smitten by peer learning. The idea is to encourage learners to learn from each other. Compelling arguments? 1. Powerful theoretical underpinning The bible for ‘peer’ pressure, and why parents and teachers should know about this stuff, is Judith Harris’s wonderful The Nurture Assumption, the work for which she received the George Miller Medal in psychology. 2.
Given the massification of education, here’s an interesting argument. 3. Unsurprisingly, to teach is to learn, as peer learning involves high-order, deep-processing activity. 4. 5. 6. 7. Problems? Why Innovation Dies. Top 20+ change management mistakes to avoid. Driving and managing change will remain the number one priority for leaders according to a recently published study.
But the reality is that most change efforts fail. Many of these failures can be traced to these common change management mistakes: Mistake #1 – Starting too late Pressure to act quickly undermines values and culture. Leaders take drastic steps quickly with no time to explore alternatives. Values about participation, involvement, or concern for people disappear. Mistake #2 – No winning strategy The best change program in the world won’t do any good if your organization doesn’t have a strategy for getting where it wants to go. Mistake #3 – Fanfare All too often organizations announce big changes and new programs with big events and fanfare, but then very little actually happens. Mistake #4 – Employees hear it from the media first Journalists dig for information, and items can run in the media before employees hear about them. Mistake #6 – Only focusing on the rational elements. How Do You Change An Organizational Culture? » The Science of a Happy Startup the awesome culture blog.
E – Engagement (flow, the sense of being lost in an activity) R – [Positive] Relationships (strong connections to others) M – Meaning (impact, a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves) A – Accomplishment (achievement of specific goals) Unlike life satisfaction, these five elements can be measured by a combination of objective (directly measured, externally validated) as well as subjective (self-reported) metrics. So… how can these findings be best applied to build a happy startup? First, I think the shift amongst the Positive Psychology movement away from its singular focus on life satisfaction to multiple measurable objectives under the construct of well-being is an insightful idea. This has started to happen a bit in socially-responsible, double-bottom line enterprises, but it is far from the norm. Interestingly, researchers at Penn have found that the age old adage “money doesn’t buy happiness” turns out to be largely wrong. P – Positive Emotions E – Engagement M – Meaning.
Thinking and Acting Systemically. Change Management - Leading and Managing Change in a Multi-polar world - Accenture Outlook.
17 Must Ask Questions for Planning Successful Projects. 16 Mar2008 Why do some projects proceed without a hitch, yet others flounder? One reason may be the type and quality of the questions people ask at the very start. Below are 17 insightful queries that can expose the uncertain aspects of your project, and thereby help you avoid expensive surprises later on. 1. How Would You Describe Your Project? Explain as expressively as possible the ultimate, "big picture" vision and purpose of your completed endeavour. 2. What are you trying to accomplish? 3. Examples of audiences or beneficiaries include: Clients, customers, customers' customers, local communities, wildlife, students, and specific population segments. 4. Examples include: Books, publications, studies, reports, manuals, video, audio, multimedia productions, tools, instructional materials, graphics, software and information systems, websites, databases, widgets, and special equipment. 5. 6.
For example, will you start by researching your audiences' needs? 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Changes are Inevitable, But Don’t Lose Your Focus. By Ernst Gemassmer As an entrepreneur, you know the world changes constantly, and you know the value of being able to adapt quickly. But changes to your startup need to be done for cause, well thought out, and communicated effectively to all impacted parties. Don’t lose your focus, or allow your operation to descend into chaos. Here are a few principles that I recommend to guide you in the change process, and keep you on track and focused: Customers and competition must be the driving force. Too many startups try to enter the market with an end-to-end product, which is the large company approach, and obviously ideal from some customers perspective.
Today’s article is presented by one of the founders of our Startup Professionals team, Ernst H.