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The Multi-Unit Enterprise (Harvard Business Review, June 2008)

Managing strategic change is a major challenge for leaders. It's been estimated that 50% of all change efforts fail to reach their objectives! Research and experience have defined several best practices for defining and implementing a change initiative to avoid possible pitfalls:

	Involving those who will be impacted by the change initiative in the process of defining the initiative and what is needed to make it work
	Defining a careful plan for implementation that incorporates motivating employees, keeping a learning attitude, and aligning the change with organizational roles and systems. (For more information, see the Sloan Management Review article "Making Change Initiatives Stick.")
	Communicating the change continuously and being clear about the specifics of the change. "The Multi-Unit Enterprise" article in the June, 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review which I co-authored with Harvard Business School professor David Garvin provides valuable advice on cascading a change initiative down through the levels of the organization. It recommends several steps leaders can take to make sure their organization is successful at executing change initiatives.

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This move certainly does not mean I am abandoning my passion for the topic of creativity. I continue to see the Breakthrough Creativity approach and the Eight Creative Talents as very powerful tools to help leaders think more strategically and globally and to build a high performing leadership team. I have actually just expanded my consulting practice to include coaching and advising around strategic issues and capabilities and now provide a broad assortment of high quality assessment tools, along with the Breakthrough Creativity Profile.

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