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Let’s Be Clear: The importance of simplicity, clarity, and focus
Excessive or unnecessary complexity is one of the biggest barriers to organizational success. This is true both internally and externally. For one, processes and forms aren’t as simple as they could...
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Complex Systems Have Simple Roots
When I talk to people about conquering complexity, they sometimes ask, “Well what about organizations or systems that are by nature complex?” Typically, they are referring to what’s known as Complex...
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Business-IT Alignment: The CIO and CFO Speak
Nowhere is clarity more needed than in the way IT relates to the business/finance areas and vice-versa. In many ways, CFOs are from Mars and CIOs are from Venus, as a PriceWaterhouseCoopers study...
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Creating Clarity through Simple Prioritized Principles
Most organizations spend time on value statements, ending up with words such as trust, integrity, honesty, fairness, and so on. The problem is, while these are simple, they are not clear. People don’t...
View ArticleJerry Manas Interview on Conquering Complexity
Bud Bilanich, aka The Common Sense Guy, interviewed me recently on the topic of Conquering Complexity through the powerful principles of simplicity, clarity, and focus. Hope you enjoy the interview. It...
View ArticleWhat’s the Story?
In addition to my many other hats, I recently completed a novel (a sci-fi thriller) with my co-author Edward Miller. As those who know me well can attest, I’ve long had a passion for fiction and film,...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 2
This is the second in series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change. Starting with point 6, this batch is part of the Planning phase in a three-step process I refer to...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 3
This is the third in series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change. Starting with point 11, this batch is part of the Planning phase in a three-step process I refer...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 4
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” – Cool Hand Luke This is the fourth in series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change. Points 16 and 17 conclude the...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 5
This is the fifth in series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change. These particular points, 21-25, continue the Selling phase in the three-step process I refer to as...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 6
Hope everyone had a happy New Years! I spent New Years day in New York City, and I’d venture to guess that it was probably just about as crowded as New Years Eve. Still, a fun place to be on the...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 7
So far, we’ve covered 30 of 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change. Whether you’re implementing a new process, software rollout, or transitional culture change, these tools will round...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 8
This post continues our series on 50 Common Sense Tips for Mastering Organization Change. These tips hold true whether you’re implementing a new process, a software rollout, or a transitional culture...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 9
As the Beatles said in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, “We’re getting very near the end.” And so, here’s the ninth post in our ten-post series on 50 Common Sense Tips for Mastering Organization...
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Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 10
And here it is… the tenth and final post in the series on 50 Common Sense Tips for Mastering Organization Change! These tips apply whether you’re implementing a new process, a software rollout, or a...
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The Case Against Time Tracking
Despite the fact that it often takes just a couple minutes once a week, time tracking (aka entering weekly timesheets) is an ongoing subject of controversy. PROPONENTS claim that it reveals...
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