The Australian Open has now finished and the players have flown out to their next events on the calendar. It was an eventful few weeks both during and in the lead-up to the tournament. So, what does the tennis have to do with change? From our point of view, quite a lot! After watching it
There have been numerous external threats over the past six months to both the economy and how we work - be it drought, bushfires, floods, viruses, politics - and there will be many more in the future. Within the last week, not only have there been jokes about the coronavirus - which is a very
It’s been one helluva year, hasn’t it? From global events such as the Christchurch Massacre in March that changed New Zealand forever and impacted on so many around the world, to the fire that destroyed Notre-Dame, and the serial bomb blasts that rattled the Sri Lankan capital. From Kim Jong Un meeting with US President
‘Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent.’ – Steve Jobs Recently, I raced back to the UK to be at the side of my father who was at end-of-life. For the final six days of his life, my sister and I didn’t leave the hospital. During that
There has been an abundance of analysis and opinion since the Australian federal election on Saturday 18 May 2019. The Liberal National Party (LNP) returned to power in what many, if not most, considered to be an unwinnable election for them. By 7.41am on 19 May, one of the first articles on what went wrong
Kurt Lewin, one of the forefathers of change management, is well-known for his three-phased process of Unfreeze – Change – Refreeze. Although originally developed in the late 1940s, it has been an often quoted change model as the three phases demonstrate quite clearly the stages of change: Getting ready and understanding the need for the
In the late-noughties, one of the most popular shows on Australian TV was a program called Thank God You’re Here. Each episode involved comedians/actors walking through a door into an unknown situation, to be greeted by the line “Thank God You’re Here!” and then having to improvise their way through the scene – often pretending
On a shelf in my kitchen at home, I have a number of recipe books. I often take them off the shelf and browse through them, looking for gastronomic inspiration. Having the recipe books on my shelf and available to me at any time, knowing the basics of cooking and having many of the necessary
It’s long been said that ‘Change is a process’ – we want to move from our current state through a transition state to get to a future state. Inherent in this view of change are some very optimistic assumptions that: we have a high level of control over the change process there is a level
