Probably the greatest challenge that scholars face in organizational behavior is getting access to information about what people do when they’re at work. Without it, they have nothing to analyze, evaluate, talk about, or publish. And if they can’t publish, then they’ll perish, because as far as universities are concerned they’ll have little, if anything, […]
Twenty years ago, Pearn Kandola – an Oxford-based business psychology firm – conducted a study in which they looked at the claims that companies made about the kind of people that they wanted to recruit. One thing they discovered was that managers tended to weed out the people who exhibited the very characteristics they said […]
In your role as a leader, you will likely encounter resistance to change at some point from one or more of your own team members. Resistance may come from a variety of sources: An individual with a difficult personality Someone anxious about impending change A person who disagrees with your vision Resistance is usually demonstrated […]
Projects are about improving or fixing things. So it should be easy to get people excited about the change that comes from the completion of a project, right? Not really. People don’t like change. Maintaining status quo is easier. Here are some top reasons people are resistant to change: Our brains are wired from way […]
We all want to be positive, embrace an optimistic future, and focus on possibilities. This is especially true in managing projects and introducing change into an organization. We see the possibilities at the other end of the change, it can be exciting . . . however, the change can’t simply be declared and expected to […]
The thing that tends to motivate all businesses, from the sole trader to the blue chip corporation, is the need for growth. But growth comes at a price and can put a huge amount of pressure and strain on businesses, as they attempt to navigate and mitigate for the internal changes that are required. For […]
It’s been suggested that successful change can be better achieved by working with or within the culture of organizations rather than against it. On the face of it, this seems to be so obvious that there’s no need to mention it all. But as Sherlock Holmes once observed, “There’s nothing so deceptive as an obvious […]
When is the best time to stop learning? Anyone preoccupied with implementing change strategies may laugh off the question as too obvious to warrant consideration. We are learning constantly just to keep up; for a busy professional, there is no snooze button on learning. Yet there is a peculiar tendency among many, varied organizations, to […]
Jesse Jacoby
Carolyn Reid
Steve Salisbury
Peter Quintana
Edgar Wilson
