Recently, a client, the head of a department in a prominent organization, approached me in frustration. Despite his best efforts to implement a strategic change project, he was ready to throw in the towel. “I just can’t fight this culture anymore,” he lamented. This sentiment is not uncommon. The renowned management guru Peter Drucker said […]

The big issue with managing resistance to corporate change is that we expect our managers to lead changes they have not yet fully embraced themselves. We expect them to ignore their own misgivings and motivate their teams to go for the planned changes full tilt without any resistance. This simply does not work since it […]

Pushing yourself beyond exhaustion. It is a surefire way to burnout, and as leaders, we’ve all been there. That point where it’s difficult to fall asleep and then equally difficult to get out of bed, the point where you feel so drained that just the idea of one more problem to solve makes you think […]