Leaving Change to Chance
It still surprises us just how many organizations leave change to chance or at best provide a couple of hours training in a workshop to prepare their leaders to…
Leading Change in a Reimagined World
Optimize is excited to announce the launch of a new and progressive leadership development program built to create effective leaders in a reimagined world where…
Time for a Change?
Like individuals, organizations change continuously, reacting to developments in their markets and to the arrival and departure of key people. In a large company,…
The Complexity Equation
Charles Dickens in the 1830’s wrote that he lived in an age of “unrelenting change and unpredictability” so I wonder what he would make of our current scenario…
Soft is Hard
Making organizational change stick for performance improvement initiatives is difficult. Different functions with different priorities and often distinct cultures…
Busy? So what?
How many times do people let you know that they are just “really busy?” But what are these people actually working on? Why are they busy and importantly have…
All in Good Time
We often hear that a client is ‘looking to change the culture’ of their organization. Companies need a good definition of corporate culture before they can begin…
Vive la Revolution
More and more companies are recognizing the need for radical transformation rather than incremental change, whether this is due to market conditions, increased competition…
Culture of Change
When thinking about making a shift in culture we need to clearly understand that any cultural transformation takes a long time. How long is long? Well that depends…
Making it Stick
Coming up with your organizational strategy is one thing but making organizational change stick is potentially far more difficult. Operations for example typically…
Kung Fu for Business
Recently here at Zeitgeist we were thinking about philosophy and the links to leadership and organizational culture – don’t ask why we were thinking philosophy,…
Apple Turnover
We were inspired by a story coming out of Alaska to write a blog about the importance of changing course when it becomes obvious that the route you have set yourself…
Tired of Change
Leo Tolstoy is quoted as stating “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” The world around us is awash with ‘movements…