Perhaps a better title for this blog would be making the case for change management in uncertain times. I cannot recall such uncertain times during the last 35 years. Sure, we’ve had market crashes, major conflicts and tragedies such as 911. But we’ve never experienced them on a daily basis before. Yesterday we saw the …
I remember the last recession in the early nineties; it kicked in shortly after I started Nova Connection. Just like this one, it followed a period of excess. It was not a pleasant time and the instinct was to batten down the hatches to weather it out. Inevitably, cost cutting was rife and the usual …
Rummaging through my in tray, I came across some interesting research by the Hay Group. It claimed that poor working climates are costing the UK financial services industry a staggering £8.5bn every year in lost profits. It went on to say that as much as a third of an organisation’s business performance is dependent on …