Here are the results from last week's polls: - How long does it take to change culture? - How long is our attention span for culture change projects? Check out this video for the data and what you can do about it!

Steering Your Organization is Like Flying a Kite!

Over 100 years later — the company now with over 200 locations in 86 countries in 32 languages and 9 million graduates — our current pandemic has driven the company to reinvent itself as their business.

This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad.

The four poisons that might be stymieing change at your company, and the three ways to get uncomfortable enough to push through.

Kotter

Jim Collins

Patti Sanchez

Work can’t be meaningful if we don’t know how to say goodbye.

One of the key principles of change from John Kotter's book, Leading Change

Unscramble your signals.

Many of my clients have recently been through a transition, are going through one at the moment, or sense one on the horizon, and almost all of my MBA students at Stanford fall into one of these categories. One of...

Being persuasive starts with cognitive dissonance.

How can we have the best intentions to become better, and yet still see so little progress?

Ben Sasse, the last Republican freshman to address the Senate this year, said this: "No one in this body thinks the Senate is laser-focused on the most pressing issues facing the nation. No one."

Why is change so difficult? Why do we resist it? Why do we fail to adapt even when our current methods aren't working? My work with clients in my coaching practice and MBAs at Stanford often involves helping people implement,...