Change Designs Blog

It is much more difficult to start again or to get back on track, than it is to continue. I haven't run for 3 weeks. I hate to admit this in a blog, after my no excuses campaign. But sometimes life gets in the way. Read more

The hardest part of any change, is managing transitions. I struggle with the transition between sleeping and waking. I have no trouble sleeping, and once I'm up, I am fine for the day. But falling asleep and waking up is difficult. I've also noticed that the most difficult part of running, is not running, but rather it is the transition between sitting and exercising. It is packing my gym bag and grabbing my car keys.  Read more

When we are involved in cultural change management, we often get so hung up on terminology, definitions and methodologies that we forget the story that underlies any transformational change. It is the universal story of all heroes.  Read more

Managing change is about adopting new habits. This is easy to say and understand, but doing it is difficult. This is because changing a habit often involves winning an internal battle of wills. Read more

When last in your career, did you 'have a dream?' When last did you feel the magic dust of inspiration spread across a room? Sometimes all it takes to energize a group and solve a difficult problem, is to copy a master.  Read more

Sometimes life gets in the way. I went away to a nature reserve from Sunday to Wednesday. While De Hoop Nature Reserve has beaches, sand dunes, lagoons, rare animals and amazing birds, it does not have a treadmill which can be set to a 7% incline. And while the scenery is superb, my barefoot running shoes would have been destroyed on the stony roads within a few minutes.  Read more

I recently participated in a discussion entitled "What is the best advice you ever got?" I started thinking of all the people who had inspired me in my life and my career. Each of them had something to say, that got me thinking differently about problems, challenges and what works in life.  Read more

Overcoming resistance means no more excuses. Read more

It is nine months since my knee operation, and my surgeon has given me permission to run again. But, he warns me, I need to do it differently. Having had a similar operation himself, and being a runner, his advice was to buy minimalist barefoot technology running shoes. These shoes he tells me, protect the knee in that most of the force of landing is spread between the toes, achilles and the calves. So my first step is to practice running with these shoes on a slight incline on a treadmill. Once I've mastered 20 minutes, I can then go back to him for the next step. Read more

I get many calls from people saying they want me to help them with "strategic planning." But what do they really want? Read more