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The Bare Minimum Change Plan That Still Gets Results
Not every project needs a full change rollout. If you’re solo or stretched thin, a “bare minimum” plan can still deliver results. This guide shows how to reduce confusion, build trust, and drive adoption with just enough change support to matter.
The Bare Minimum Change Plan That Still Gets Results
Not every project needs a full change rollout. If you’re solo or stretched thin, a “bare minimum” plan can still deliver results. This guide shows how to reduce confusion, build trust, and drive adoption with just enough change support to matter.
Why So Many Change Practitioners Are “Open to Work”
GenX change practitioners are feeling the squeeze as orgs flatten, AI encroaches, and the profession faces an identity crisis. Survival means reframing our value—not as “change management,” but as outcomes leaders can’t ignore.
The Death of Buy-In: Why Your Change Strategy Doesn’t Need Everyone
Universal buy-in is a myth. Change doesn’t need everyone on board—it needs critical mass. Focus on behavior over agreement, momentum over consensus, and design strategies that move feet, not just win hearts.
The PMO-OCM Merger: Why Program Management Needs Change Thinking (and Vice Versa)
Merging program delivery and change management is no longer optional. As transformation offices evolve, success depends on readiness, saturation, and behavioral tipping points—not just hitting timelines and budgets.
Your Next Workflow Partner Doesn't Take Lunch Breaks
Agentic AI isn’t just smarter assistance—it acts. By automating handoffs, preserving context, and accelerating cross-functional workflows, it’s reshaping how work gets done. Leaders must design for trust, governance, and accountability in this new operating model.
Workplace Wellness—The AI Anxiety Paradox
Employees face an AI anxiety paradox—fearful of job loss yet hopeful for relief through personalization, inclusivity, and automation. Leaders and change practitioners must embed wellness and trust into AI strategies to turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Invisible Layoffs, Visible AI
Tech giants are quietly cutting jobs as AI takes over core functions. This invisible restructuring isn’t a temporary correction—it’s a lasting shift that challenges leaders to balance efficiency with trust, culture, and resilience.
Why Not Us? How Practitioners Can Beat the Big Four at Their Own AI Game
AI-first boutiques are eating the Big Four’s lunch—not with size, but with speed. This isn’t the end of consulting. It’s the rebirth. Learn how practitioners can outmaneuver legacy firms and turn disruption into opportunity.
Introducing Seventyprol™
The infamous “70% of change projects fail” stat isn’t data — it’s folklore with a pharma ad makeover. Meet Seventyprol™: the placebo number that makes slides sound smart, leaders feel justified, and practitioners roll their eyes.
You Must Be This Verified to Work Here: Why your laptop is stuck in provisioning purgatory
You’re hired, but not operational. No email, no calendar, no access—just endless waiting in provisioning purgatory. Welcome to the new normal of onboarding, where security delays, IT black holes, and compliance rituals leave you ghosted by your own job.
A Field Guide to Meeting Monologuers: A Survey of Saboteurs
In every meeting, there’s one—or four—who just can’t help themselves. The recappers. The performers. The idea thieves. The oracles. This field guide catalogs the most common corporate monologuers and offers survival strategies for anyone trapped in their echo chamber.
Scrum and Circumstance
Agile rituals up front, Waterfall habits behind the curtain. This piece explores the rise of “Agilefall,” where teams cosplay Scrum while clinging to timelines, sign-offs, and Gantt charts. It’s process theater, and everyone knows it.
The Bare Minimum Change Plan That Still Gets Results
Not every project needs a full change rollout. If you’re solo or stretched thin, a “bare minimum” plan can still deliver results. This guide shows how to reduce confusion, build trust, and drive adoption with just enough change support to matter.
The Change Agent’s Guide to Building an Intelligence Network
An ex-CIA officer taught me the power of building intel networks through small, trusted cells. It turns out the same tradecraft applies to change management: success depends on the quiet networks that keep you close to reality.
Focus is Power
In a world of constant pings and platform-hopping, deep work is more than a productivity hack—it’s a strategic advantage. Learn how to reclaim focus, reduce context switching, and deliver higher-value work in consulting environments overloaded with noise.
How to Freelance Without Burning Out
Freelancing can give you freedom—or drain you fast. This guide offers 10 hard-won strategies to avoid burnout, manage your energy, and build a sustainable solo practice, whether you're side hustling or all-in on consulting.
Why So Many Change Practitioners Are “Open to Work”
GenX change practitioners are feeling the squeeze as orgs flatten, AI encroaches, and the profession faces an identity crisis. Survival means reframing our value—not as “change management,” but as outcomes leaders can’t ignore.
Workplace Wellness—The AI Anxiety Paradox
Employees face an AI anxiety paradox—fearful of job loss yet hopeful for relief through personalization, inclusivity, and automation. Leaders and change practitioners must embed wellness and trust into AI strategies to turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Future-Proof Your Change Career
Use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model to future-proof your change career. Whether you’re an employee or freelancer, this framework helps you balance today’s work, tomorrow’s growth, and long-term possibilities—so you can lead with purpose and plan for what’s next.
Change Management as a Stepping Stone, Not a Final Destination
Change management isn’t a career cul-de-sac—it’s one of the best strategic apprenticeships in the enterprise. Learn how it opens doors to roles in strategy, operations, HR, and Chief of Staff, with real-world pivots, practical advice, and a new way to frame your impact.
Editors' Picks
The AI Wake-Up Call for Consultants
AI isn’t killing consulting—it’s exposing it. If your business model relies on slide decks and boilerplate insight, it’s time to evolve. Here’s what the Reddit backlash and GenAI stumbles are really telling us.
How Smart Tools Are Redefining Enterprise Change Management
A new generation of tools is reshaping how we manage enterprise change: scaling coaching, tracking saturation, embedding behavior, and building capability. This article maps what’s emerging and how to start using it, even without a software budget.
From Change Practitioner to Chief of Staff: A Natural Evolution of Influence
For seasoned change practitioners, the Chief of Staff role is a natural next step. Explore how your skills in strategy, influence, and emotional intelligence can position you as a key advisor to senior leadership.