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By Todd Warner / September 15, 2016
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Harvard Business Review – Overcome Resistance to Change by Enlisting the Right People

Change initiatives fail when senior leaders don’t see that their organizations are social systems. Organizations are defined by bundles of local relationships, social expectations, and unwritten rules that exist between thousands of people. These people create tribes — collections of like-minded people who build patterns around how work gets done. This system ...

By Todd Warner / August 3, 2016
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CLO Magazine – Doing the Wrong Things with High Potentials

Almost every organization goes through a painstaking process to identify high potentials. But what leaders do with high potentials then is just wrong. We isolate them, give them some posh-abstracted development program, and then send them back to work. If we really want to benefit high potentials,.... Read more here: ...

By Todd Warner / July 5, 2016
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Harvard Business Review – 3 Reasons Why Talent Management Isn’t Working Anymore

Every CEO claims to struggle with the challenge of getting the right “talent,” but what does this really mean? Their real concern is: Do I have the people who will understand my agenda and be able to really change how work gets done, at pace? This is the wrong ...

By Todd Warner / February 3, 2016
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Intelligence Bank: Software Implementation is about people, not Technology

Every day when we speak with clients who are looking to purchase software, and we hear the same concerns over and over again: Will the software work? Will my users like using it? Will it actually make us more efficient? So we spoke with our friend,..... Read more here: link

By Todd Warner / November 12, 2015
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Harvard Business Review – What Separates High-Performing Leaders from Average Ones

Research shows that employees dislike their jobs, don’t trust their leaders, and aren’t engaged. If you’re a leader — or aspiring to be one — you should be frightened. Are organizations in the modern world built for leaders to fail? Or can you overcome these leadership challenges, and if ...

By Todd Warner / September 16, 2015
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Change This! – Solving The Wrong Problems: Why Behaviors Don’t Change In Organizations

“To change behaviors in organizations, reorient to a different set of problems. Discussions of behavioral change fall prey to viewing things on a distinctly individualistic level, or through the traditional lenses of systems, structures and processes. Yet this isn’t how people really work. Read more here: link

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