Comments on: Is change management about to change? http://josejruiz.com/wordpress/leadership/is-change-management-about-to-change/ Executive Recruiter - Heidrick & Struggles Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robbie Howarth http://josejruiz.com/wordpress/leadership/is-change-management-about-to-change/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Robbie Howarth Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:38:38 +0000 http://josejruiz.com/wordpress/?p=1438#comment-690 Jose I have been working in lean/kaizen/CI environments now for 19 years and the one area that I feel is missed or not understood fully is the area around senior managers (CEO, COO, MD's, VP's etc.) and middle managers and that is when we talk about 'change', I rarely see any real change in behaviours, there is still a need of managers to keep the status quo, I rarely if ever see behavioural change and I do not see managers being taught to implement lean on the "shop floor" getting their hands dirty, I am constantly amazed to see senior managers thinking they can implement lean from their offices..! Alongside change I do not see real leadership, leadership with charisma, and an attitide of we can do this but we managers need to come down to your levels and work with you Why do we still have offices seperate from the shop floor, workers expect to see small, simplistic, expectations of managers working with workers, we also do not seed managers realisation that operators can be trusted to control data, facts, and finance. The worker can do it at home with tghe house, finance, childrens safety, etc. but we do not give them that trust at work, not always Hope this helps the debate Kind Regards Robbie Howarth Jose
I have been working in lean/kaizen/CI environments now for 19 years and the one area that I feel is missed or not understood fully is the area around senior managers (CEO, COO, MD’s, VP’s etc.) and middle managers and that is when we talk about ‘change’, I rarely see any real change in behaviours, there is still a need of managers to keep the status quo, I rarely if ever see behavioural change and I do not see managers being taught to implement lean on the “shop floor” getting their hands dirty, I am constantly amazed to see senior managers thinking they can implement lean from their offices..!
Alongside change I do not see real leadership, leadership with charisma, and an attitide of we can do this but we managers need to come down to your levels and work with you
Why do we still have offices seperate from the shop floor, workers expect to see small, simplistic, expectations of managers working with workers, we also do not seed managers realisation that operators can be trusted to control data, facts, and finance. The worker can do it at home with tghe house, finance, childrens safety, etc. but we do not give them that trust at work, not always
Hope this helps the debate
Kind Regards
Robbie Howarth

]]> By: Mike Osterling http://josejruiz.com/wordpress/leadership/is-change-management-about-to-change/comment-page-1/#comment-688 Mike Osterling Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:28:33 +0000 http://josejruiz.com/wordpress/?p=1438#comment-688 Jose My “Google alert” pointed me to your blog post Your post was worth reading twice (which I did), and I loved your closing line “We are at the inflection where the challenge of change management is going to shift from helping teams transition to keeping teams focused and helping them stay on track.” Indeed our attention spans are even shorter than they were in the past (and that has been one of the constant criticism of American management – our ability to focus and stay the course). With interest I have read the results of “multi-tasking” studies which demonstrate that multi-tasking is in fact a fallacy – it is the rare person who can truly do two “tasks” at once. In fact “interruption science” is showing that trying to multi-task hinders most people’s effectiveness and the time to recover from interruptions is significant. Thanks for the stimulating post. Regards, Mike Jose

My “Google alert” pointed me to your blog post

Your post was worth reading twice (which I did), and I loved your closing line “We are at the inflection where the challenge of change management is going to shift from helping teams transition to keeping teams focused and helping them stay on track.” Indeed our attention spans are even shorter than they were in the past (and that has been one of the constant criticism of American management – our ability to focus and stay the course). With interest I have read the results of “multi-tasking” studies which demonstrate that multi-tasking is in fact a fallacy – it is the rare person who can truly do two “tasks” at once. In fact “interruption science” is showing that trying to multi-task hinders most people’s effectiveness and the time to recover from interruptions is significant.

Thanks for the stimulating post.

Regards,

Mike

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