Freely sharing content is a great way to make (work) friends, connect to interesting people, raise your profile, be an inspiration and give back to the (change) community. The age-old principle of “Give and thou shalt receive” is still very much alive on social media today. Yesterday, Lena Ross and I did a webinar for Change Management Institute on using social for corporate change and some of the questions/statements we got were along the lines of: “I don’t feel I have anyth

While writing part 1, I had waaaaay too much fun with the data of LinkedIn, Google and Bing (don't judge me) and thought to quickly share some interesting numbers. Don't get too hung up on the details, it's not peer-reviewed, tested or proofed in any way, it's just MS Office and my inner geek at work here. I do understand that there's cultural differences, not everybody is on LinkedIn and obviously countries like China have their own versions of LinkedIn. Yep, also aware that

In my quest to understand what is happening to the Change Management profession I love, I turned to data and learned a lot, but was left with more questions than answers. When I say I turned to data, I really mean that I played around with LinkedIn and Google and searched for different combinations of words. If you were expecting a scientific and peer-reviewed article, I appreciate the vote of confidence, but that’s really outside my skill set and well beyond my patience thre

***Spoiler alert*** this article contains questions and some potentially useful references, but no answers. You know that feeling you get when you just know something isn’t right but you can’t quite put your finger on it? That’s how I’ve been feeling about change management for a while now. I’ve tried reading very smart books and articles by equally smart and accomplished people in and outside our profession to find answers. When that didn’t work, I met with a lot of them in

I used to get all wild-eyed and red in the face at just the mention of Change Resistance and Change Fatigue. After many deep breaths, patient guidance from people like Joanne Rinaldi, Heather Stagl and Daryl Conner and a few years of bashing into brick walls head-first, I am better now. I understand it’s just words and while words are important, my shouting “Blasphemy!” and “Burn the Witch! (m/f)” were not exactly inviting smart and enlightening conversation. I can now agree