Whether implementing strategy or rolling out a new framework like a risk or compliance framework, you are likely to be met with some level of resistance. There is a long, long list of where they may come from for any particular individual. Here are a few: • Uncertainty that the change aligns with a person’s
You know collaboration between people and between teams is needed to breach silos for success. Sometimes there is a lack of trust, especially between teams, that creates resistance to open and honest collaboration. I wrote about breaching silos to create practical pathways to success by ensuring information is shared across teams and that your enterprise
While everyone is allowed to make a mistake, there are always exceptions to a rule. This creates personal risk. A risk that was very nicely articulated by JFK in an interview in 1962: “If you take the wrong course, and on occasion I have, the President bears the burden of the responsibility quite rightly. The
Your greatest fear could be this picture: An organisation of brilliant minds and innovative ideas. Yet, teams are working in silos, projects are misaligned, and the organisation’s vision seems like a distant mirage. In the words of Simon Sinek author of Start with Why “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do
Organisations thrive on vision and purpose if individuals and teams are strongly aligned to them. Recently I was thinking about how we know the power of communication using our eyes and that our eyes give us vision. I then pondered why more organisations don’t do more to ensure individuals and teams are truly aligned to