Reading time: about 2.5 minutes. Spain, New Zealand, and Thailand are beginning to relax lockdown. In Canada, provinces are preparing for some businesses to reopen. But that doesn’t mean we should expect pre-pandemic levels of business any time soon. The surge in unemployment means consumer demand...
Reading time: 3.5 minutes. Have you ever heard of Johannes Väänänen? In part, this blog is about why your answer to that question might be "no". You see, while Steve Jobs and Apple go down in the annuals of history as the inventor of the smart phone....
Reading time: about three minutes Recently, I’ve been thinking about leadership in an M&A environment. Not from the position of the company doing the acquisition – after all to the business being bought out or merged with, the acquiring business holds all the cards. So this week...
Reading time: about 3 minutes Last week we talked about mindset; what it means and why it’s so popular right now. This week I’d like to think about how we can operationalize a shift in mindset. But before we get to that let’s talk about a possible...
I’ve never seen the research to back up the often quoted “70% of change projects fail” stat, but anecdotally I’ve come across enough examples of change that didn’t work to agree all’s not going smoothly in change land. Crack that problem and I’d say you’ve done...
When you're leading change telling the right story makes all the difference in that difficult second act, so let’s think about what makes for a good tale. Once Upon a Time...