Executing with Resilience

Executing with Resilience Linda Hoopes In Managing at the Speed of Change, Daryl Conner suggests that we each have a baseline level of resilience, that this baseline can be increased through practice and development, and that, as we implement major change initiatives,...

Developing Personal Resilience

This post originally appeared as the first in a series of 3 guest articles on Luc Galoppin’s blog. Human energy is the currency of change. Mental, emotional, and physical energy are required to shift minds, hearts, and bodies into new patterns....

Building Resilient Teams

Teams play a critical role during change for some very good reasons: Team decisions during change are potentially more representative of a wide range of interests in the organization than are individual decisions. Teams facilitate the development of especially...

What I’m Reading

My sister Barbara, a management science/operations management professor, recommended this book. Onto my Kindle it went, and I read it on a recent business trip. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto. Metropolitan Books, 2009. When I first heard the title, I thought,...

Where Are You Going?

Many people are dissatisfied with where they are in their lives, but, when asked what it is they want instead, have a hard time articulating a response. The art of creating a clear vision is an important one. When someone comes to me for my advice on life, career,...