Change Designs Blog

The early years of my career were spent implementing information technology projects that enhance or streamline business processes. The later years have been spent on building organizational capacity for project management and business transformation.  My career has been fulfilling, rewarding and challenging. It has turned out far better than I could have ever possibly dreamed of, providing me with growth and learning beyond measure.  Read more

I'd always believed that achieving anything in life was like climbing a ladder to success. The formula I'd follow was: Read more

What do you do when nothing seems to work the way it should?  Read more

Is resilience the new 'key success factor' of these times? Read more

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