Mark McDonald

Leading beyond tomorrow requires more than managing change.  It requires building people’s ability to change and that is the difference between change management and change leadership.  One of the techniques for leading beyond tomorrow I learned from Michael Doyle who unfortunately passed away in 2007 and is the author of Making Meetings Work.
Reflective reciprocity sounds [...]

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“There are no IT projects, only business projects,” is the frequent imperative of many CIOs and IT leaders.  However, every IT organization faces the need to implement changes that have little to no business impact.  The question is how do you manage such a project.
The answer is as cheap and as fast as you can.
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As part of a periodic series of blog entries on “change on the cheap,” this entry will discuss one approach to raising IT productive capacity without increasing the budget. In this post we will discuss a ‘recipe’ for raising IT productive capacity by 20% or more with no impact on the IT budget.
Raising IT productive capacity [...]

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