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Posture for Success

In today's world, there is a lot going on to which you can have all sorts of responses. Ideally, we will live our lives from a place of confidence, trust, and commitment to create our own path and destiny. However, sometimes each of us can "forget" what w... Read >

Phase One for Designing Change: Work System Layout

We have found it productive to accomplish the first phase in a workshop setting involving somewhere between twenty and two hundred people over a three-day to five-day period. We have worked with smaller groups and find that with fewer than twenty people t... Read >

Quality of Work Life

Two parts of the joint optimization puzzle, meeting business re quirements and meeting process requirements, are generally well understood. The third leg of the stool, meeting the quality-of-work-life requirements of the people, is sometimes not as well u... Read >

Designing Support Work

A great deal of other work is required from your front-line work units beyond that directly involved with the core transformation processes: Technical support work, such as information management and materials supply; human administration support work, su... Read >

Identifying the Leadership in Your Organization

Identifying the leadership of the organization requires looking for formal and informal influence both inside and outside the organization. It is important to understand that the expectation for these leaders is to change their own actions, not to change ... Read >

The Jobs of

People with a formal leadership position in a traditionally hierar chical organization undergoing change will have more leverage for pulling it ahead or shutting it down than the average person on the front line. To be in the acceleration business, member... Read >

Internal Consulting: Staying Whole in a Challenging Role. Part 2 of 2

Practice marginality. Consultants create value when they bring something to the system that is not already present. Usually this means that the consultant needs to be marginally like the client system. This means different enough to be interesting, but... Read >

Internal Consulting: Staying Whole in a Challenging Role. Part 1 of 3

Internal consulting offers a unique perspective to those who choose to work in that arena. They are operating in a familiar dilemma of all those who both live in and consult to a single organization. Internal consulting has its peculiarities and specifi... Read >

Lessons Learned from e-Commerce

M. J. Evans, Ph.D. Introduction The growth and frequent failures of e-commerce ventures has served to write new chapters in the history of business and organization. Whether you were actively involved in these ventures or just watching interestedly, y... Read >

Prioritize Your Time or Energy?

Recently I was asked if it is more important to prioritize your time or your energy. The more I think about it, the more I see an interesting dilemma in a schedule driven world. I have been through many physically intensive times and roles. I have been wi... Read >

What's Your Headline?

Last weekend I opened my news page and noticed two different headlines for the same event listed side-by-side. Here's what they said. Headline 1: Philippines ferry passengers rescued Headline 2: Philippine Ferry Sinks; Five Dead, 63 Still Missing ... Read >

Living through Transformation

To those of you who are living through transformations, and especially those who are leading them, here are some thoughts directly to you. Real transformation means that we change the rules of how we engage, how we make decisions, and how we do business. ... Read >

The Law of Attraction – Set High Performance Goals

Some years ago, I set a goal for myself to get a Ph.D. Now, that by itself is a pretty big goal, but I added on to it a few wrinkles. I was working full-time, and I was not in a place where I wanted to leave that position. Also, the only program that I fo... Read >

The Law of Attraction – Enable Inspired Action through Teams

This is the third article in a five part series on the Five Competencies for Transformational Leaders. Literature on leadership is filled with information on what it takes to lead others. You will find a mixture of behaviors, competencies, beliefs, approa... Read >

The Law Of Attraction: Envision a Compelling Future

The cornerstone of organizational change is the ability and willingness of a leader to create a picture of the future that is more compelling than the strong reality of today. While some leaders have the ability to literally imagine and see that future, o... Read >