by Esther Derby | Apr 22, 2009 | Leadership & Management
Esther Schindler recently put forward a scenario about a struggling employee named Frank, and solicited advice from her network.Briefly, the scenario is this: Frank was a great maintenance programmer, but the company is retiring the system he worked on. Frank has...
by Esther Derby | Nov 5, 2008 | Leadership & Management, Organizational Change, Systems and Complexity
I attended an Organizational Change BoF last evening at the AYE conference. Among other things, we talked about why it is that some managers fail to act when there are many signs of big problems. I see three conditions that are prequisites for change (at any level):...
by Esther Derby | Nov 26, 2007 | Coaching, Organizational Change
I got a call from an acquaintance, Gloria, who is trying to convince her organization to adopt agile methods. “I’ve given them every logical argument I can think of,” she said. “They just don’t get it. All I get is blank looks. How stupid...
by Esther Derby | Apr 7, 2007 | Leadership & Management, Organizational Change
Back in February, I wrote a post on helping people change and pointed to George Dinwiddie’s post on Overcoming Resistance. His post has grown up to be an article, and it’s posted on the AYE Conference website.
by Esther Derby | Mar 21, 2007 | Leadership & Management
Last week, I wrote a post about decisions that look only at easy-to-count costs and ignore hard-to-count benefits.Here’s one method for estimating hard-to-count benefits, subjective impact analysis:1. Identify the proposed course of action.2. Determine what’s...
