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Blog > 2012 > January

“We Waste Most of the Human Resources We Hire”

CBS MoneyWatch, presents a review of an interesting research by Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal. The researchers studied what they called “decisive purposeful action,” i.e. the relationship between being busy and being productive and effective. The findings were most interesting and surprised the researches: “Only about 10 percent of the managers took purposeful action.” [...]

January 31st, 2012 | Category: Developing agility, Influencing difficult people, KCI Solution Assessment, What's New Sidebar | Comments are closed

The Lie of Most Leadership Books

In an article with the above title, published on CBS MoneyWatch, Dave Logan outlines the confusing platform set by most leadership books. The three most problematic leadership books, according to Logan, are religious leadership and self help leadership books. Logan’s main claim is that “leadership, like most fields, is made richer [...]

January 24th, 2012 | Category: Brain Research, Innovation, Strategic HR, Training, What's New Sidebar | Comments are closed

Change Systems Are Less Effective Because They Don't Follow Brain Rules

Research shows that very high percentages of change efforts fail. 70% of mergers and acquisitions lose shareholder value (KPMG Global Survey, A New Dawn: Good Deals in Challenging Times, May 2011). 68% of IT projects fail (Standish Group report, CHAOS Summary, April 2009). Most training fades away within 6 weeks ( John T. Wixted [...]

January 17th, 2012 | Category: Brain Research, Culture Change, High Performance Teams, Influencing difficult people, Innovation, Integrating new systems, KCI Solution Assessment, Stickiness Breakthrough, Strategic HR, Training, What's New Sidebar | Comments are closed

Are You Picking the Right Champions to Spearhead Your Change Effort?

One of the best strategies to get a change effort to catch on in organizations is to prove the applicability and success of the change in one team. Done well, the results are measured to then serve as a wonderful promotional tool for other teams.

In our experience, there is something you need to watch for [...]

January 10th, 2012 | Category: Culture Change, Developing agility, High Performance Teams, Influencing difficult people, Innovation, Integrating new systems, What's New Sidebar | Comments are closed

The HR Challenge: Guiding Teams to Make Required Changes When Most People Don't Want to Change

Join us in Denver!

Reut Schwartz-Hebron, The Colorado HR Association, January 20th 2012

2012 Human Resources Conference…Smart HR

There are three types of people in your organization:

Those who are both willing and capable of making the adjustments needed in order to achieve [...]

January 3rd, 2012 | Category: Culture Change, Developing agility, Influencing difficult people, Innovation, Integrating new systems, Strategic HR, Training, What's New Sidebar | Comments are closed