by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Culture and Workplace Environment, Leading Change |
Expect an acceleration of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2018. According to the latest research by Deloitte, over 1000 corporate and private equity executives report an anticipated increase in both the number of deals and the size of transactions. A...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Culture and Workplace Environment, Leadership, Leading Change |
Marissa was frustrated. As district manager of a large retail chain, she was responsible for ten stores. Her district was doing well, meeting sales goals and store operations were generally smooth. The problem was that her boss, the regional manager, was a...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Career, High Performing Organizations, Leadership, Leading Change |
Career mobility is the new way of the future. According to a 2012 Future Workplace Study, 91% of millennials expect to stay in a job for less than three years, and Fast Company reported a study pointing toward 4-year careers. But are today’s organizations...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership, Leading Change, Team Effectiveness |
Has your team’s performance fallen off lately? Was it once exciting to be part of the team, and lately you find you’re not having fun? Perhaps your team has succumbed to team drift. In my Harvard Business Review article, “Diagnose and Cure Team Drift,” I explain how...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership, Leading Change, Team Effectiveness |
Rarely will you have the luxury of time to plan everything out before you start a new project or change initiative. And even if you do, it’s likely that unforeseen circumstances will send you back to the drawing board. However, jumping ahead with no plans is a recipe...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leading Change |
Chances are you will initiate a change that affects your whole team or start a major team project in the near future. And chances are it will not make the impact you had hoped for. A 2008 study by IBM found that over 60 percent of change efforts fail to fully meet...
