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2017 | Managing Organizational Change

Three Costly Mistakes Top Execs Make When Leading Organizational Change

Research consistently shows only about 30% of change efforts succeed. So why increase your chances of failure? Most top executives know intuitively that managing change is important. But in working with college presidents, manufacturing CEOs and health care leaders,...
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2017 | MultiGenerational Workforce

Three Books Guaranteed To Change How You Work With Millennials

Every association and organization I work with these days, giving talks and consulting, is concerned about how to improve the productivity of their Millennials. Many executives I talk to are frustrated with their young employees and anxious to find better ways to...
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2017 | Lost Knowledge, Skills Gap Solutions

How To Be Sure Your Knowledge Transfer Strategy Isn’t A House of Cards

Is your organization living on the edge? Does the loss of vital know-how or failure to document and transfer essential capabilities threaten to: Expose critical points of failure? The expertise needed to maintain special valves for a major chemical company dissipated...
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2017 | General, Leadership Development

Five Trends Higher Ed Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore

Recent articles and blog posts I’ve reviewed suggest five trends posing significant risks for colleges and universities, if higher ed leaders don’t pay attention. Being aware of the data behind these trends is the first step to identifying productive responses. (If...
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2017 | Leadership Development

The Real Game of Thrones: Developing Health Care Leaders Under the Affordable Care Act

Few leadership environments are as uncertain today as health care where the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is bringing countless changes to an industry that is growing rapidly, while also experiencing major cost constraints. Recently, I gave a keynote talk to the Northwest...
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2017 | Skills Gap Solutions

Lessons From Lambeau: How the Green Bay Packers Help You Close the Skills Gap

How do you grow grass on a Wisconsin football field in December? I was in Green Bay recently speaking to manufacturing executives about solutions for leveraging an aging workforce. While there, I visited that NFL shrine known as Lambeau Field, which turns out to be a...
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Three Costly Mistakes Top Execs Make When Leading Organizational Change

Three Books Guaranteed To Change How You Work With Millennials

How To Be Sure Your Knowledge Transfer Strategy Isn’t A House of Cards

Five Trends Higher Ed Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore

The Real Game of Thrones: Developing Health Care Leaders Under the Affordable Care Act

Lessons From Lambeau: How the Green Bay Packers Help You Close the Skills Gap

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