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Welcome to: A Pot of Gold

It’s pretty clear that today’s is a rapidly changing (and quite challenging) world of work.  The question I would like to explore is, what does it mean for you as a  leader and participant, or as someone who influences others in those roles? I believe that the changes going on are occurring at a deeper […]
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Supply chains at a Tipping Point, Part 5: MINDSETS for Leading Transformation

Supply Chains at a Tipping Point 4 MINDSETS for Leading Transformation Patricia McLagan Supply chain leaders are at the tipping point of T3[1] transformation for your supply chains, but also for the business as a whole.  What does it take to be a change agent during this shift into the era of Industry 4.0? The […]
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Supply Chains at a Tipping Point, part 3: Can You Bend Organizations to Your Will?

Supply Chains at the Tipping Point, Article Three Can You Bend Organizations to Your Will? Patricia McLagan Nugget:This third article of five distinguishes three types of change – two of them make up most companies’ change management portfolio. Business and supply chain leaders must recognize when to invest in these traditional approaches. But they have […]
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Supply Chains at a Tipping Point, part 1: Introduction to Series

Supply Chains at the Tipping Point Introducing an Article Series on Supply Chain Driven Business Transformation Nugget: This is the first in a series of articles focused on the transformational role supply chains are playing in business today, and on the human and culture change implications of this role. Supply chains are often seen as […]
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If You Want Water to Boil, Turn Up the Heat!

NUGGET: Make sure your investment in change is robust enough to achieve your change goal. In another post, I wrote about one of two major mistakes that condemn changes to the trash heap of failed projects: failing to say NO to a proposed change that won’t add value. The second mistake is both big and […]
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Four Missing Pieces from Today’s Change Management Agendas

First Published 2015 NUGGET: It’s not enough to add change management steps to project plans and programs. Ensuring change success requires other more powerful and sometimes subtle actions.  Here are four. Change management is becoming a differentiating capability in organizations today. There are more accessible and useful tools and training – stakeholder analyses, better planning […]
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Introducing the SHADOWSide of Power

NUGGET: Become increasingly aware of the “shadow” that goes with formal leadership roles. It can derail your best leadership intentions – but also holds immense potential energy for leverage, learning and legacy! It was 1958, my 8TH grade (Standard 6) year. I was part of the oldest group in the school. We had all looked […]
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Everyone a Leader? Yes and NO

NUGGET: Let’s stop pretending that everyone is a leader in the same way. When there are leadership failures the buck must ultimately stop at the feet of people with institutional power, for they wear the decision mantle and authority of the larger organization or institution. Everyone IS a leader when he or she takes a […]
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Change Management as Risk Mitigation

Nugget: Investing in HOW you guide change is essential to success, not an addon.Most strategies and plans require many changes in how your enterprise works.For this reason, and because the enterprise is a social as well as a technicalentity, changes contain major inherent risks of failure. Change management, if itis put on the table at […]