Change Management

Why “Islands of Stability”?

I get this question a lot: why the book, why the concept. Here’s the answer. Our previous book, The Project Manifesto, was designed to show what needs to happen in…

Look Where You Want to Go

A while ago I completed a motorcycle safety class. There’s an interesting point they make over and over in the class: you should look where you want to go, not…

Checkmate

I just finished reading The Checklist Manifesto by Dr. Atul Gawande (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009). It’s a well-written, entertaining book that promotes the use of checklists to make sure…

Harmony

I just read the book WA: Transformation Management by Harmony by Yuji Kishira. It’s about critical chain, but from a Japanese perspective. It has some pretty wacky stuff, but that’s…