Lessons In Leadership Change management: Resistance is Fertile Search Amazon for books on “change management” and you’ll get over 20,000 results. It seems everyone has theories about how to make change management work… and yet a McKinsey study suggests that only 30 percent of these efforts succeed. Companies with a good track record all work to build consensus—but this isn’t always as straightforward […] Written by BPH March 25, 2016October 26, 2020
We Are All Designers What’s Your Manifesto? Recently, while attending an event at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I participated in a client workshop that was facilitated by our Chief Design Officer, Bruce Mau. We were talking about the value of creating manifestos to articulate what’s important to us as companies, as business leaders, and as regular people taking up space on […] Written by BPH March 17, 2016November 16, 2020
We Are All Designers Design Excellence It’s not every day that you get to invite valued clients to someplace as prestigious as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and then let them personally experience an exhibition featuring the work of your colleague. Of course, it’s not everybody that can claim a colleague who’s been presented with a Design Excellence Award by fellow […] Written by BPH March 15, 2016November 16, 2020
Lessons In Leadership Don’t Worry About the Competition Some managers obsess about what the competition is doing. The thinking is, if you stay a step ahead of the other guys, you’ll stay in front, right? Not so much. Formula 1 drivers don’t win championships by looking in the rear view mirror. They choose their own line around the course and run their […] Written by BPH March 10, 2016October 26, 2020
Lessons In Leadership Do: Coach and inspire. Don’t: Command and control. Some bosses feel the need to watch over our shoulder and insist that we do everything the way they’ve always done it. They control information and dole it out on an “as needed” basis. Unfortunately, instead of teaching us to think, they’re simply teaching us to follow instructions. This might have worked in the age […] Written by BPH March 2, 2016October 23, 2020