Malcolm Turnbull, the new Prime Minister of Australia is calling for corporate Australia to develop a more open and flexible culture that embraces change:
“That means organisations need to be much less hierarchical, they cannot be blame-based,” he said. “You have to, as chief executives or senior executives; you’ve got to encourage the people that work for you to challenge you.”
Though not a new post, this one makes an important distinction between a discrete change and a business transformation and argues we need to treat them differently.
https://hbr.org/2015/01/we-still-dont-know-the-difference-between-change-and-transformation
While it starts off suggesting that firing the leader when a transformation fails is a really bad idea, the post closes with 17 action items to minimize the risk that the transformation will fail. Some good advice in here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terri-wallin/if-something-goes-wrong-f_b_7999166.html
Finally my own offering this week which reminds us that if we want to change people’s mindset and approach to work, we have to also change the environment they work in.
http://www.tomandgeriscrum.com/2015/11/02/to-change-a-mindset-change-the-environment/