“Leadership must evolve into a “science-based craft”, like surgery.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...”
Source: Vile Bodies
“Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Nothing remains the same and at some point in time, everything changes”
“Change Leadership is action, not a position”
“Life is all about 'Continuous Never Ending Change and Improvement' (CNECI) as we grow, develop and regenerate”
Source: Change Management Handbook: The Leadership of Change Volume 3
“Many leaders get to the top of an organisation with skills less associated to leadership, but more the ability to eliminate greater competition on the way”
“It doesn’t matter which continent I am working in; I typically encounter three-employee change standpoints: Advocates, Observers and Rebels. However, to successfully implement organisational change management, we must engage, communicate and entice these three employee groups to get buy-in, change adoption and benefits realisation”
“The change question all leaders should be able to answer
Do you have a change vision, are you aligned on your strategic objectives, are you a high performing team and does you team have change leadership skills to lead the change or improvement that your organisation is facing?”