Why doesn’t change stick?
Hint: It’s not the process — it’s the people.
We talk strategy, but we rarely talk about the emotional cost of change: fear, identity shifts, uncertainty, loss of control.
💥 Here’s the truth:
Change isn’t operational.
It’s emotional.
And until leaders learn to lead the emotion first, transformation will keep melting away.
#ChangeManagement #Leadership #PsychSafety #OrgCulture #Lewin #LDBlog #HRInsights #LeadBoldly
Check out my interview on Scrum Master Toolbox from 2018 with Vasco Duarte. We talked about #orgculture, #scrum, #canada. Our conversation is as relevant today as it was then, despite our changing #world.
A thoughtful BCG piece suggests we're focused on the wrong thing with AI and innovation. Giving everyone tools creates variation, but value comes from selection and amplification. This requires a culture and a system built on trust and respect for employee ideas, not just top-down directives. It reframes the workplace as a living system, not a machine.
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2025/how-every-employee-can-become-an-innovator
💡 Engineering without transparency is like driving in fog.
Years of polite meetings and broken roadmaps taught me one thing: the issue wasn’t people but a lack of visibility.
When priorities went public, everything shifted: decisions sped up, trust grew, work finally moved forward.
Read more → https://victoronsoftware.com/posts/engineering-transparency/
#Engineering #Leadership #Transparency #DevExperience #OrgCulture
Check out my interview on Scrum Master Toolbox from 2018 with Vasco Duarte. We talked about #orgculture, #scrum, #canada. Our conversation is as relevant today as it was then, despite our changing #world.
Imagine you spent years studying and performing classical music, working as a piano teacher and sometimes accompanist.
Then you move to another province to take a job as a translator in a life insurance company, working in an office Monday to Friday, 9 to 5.
That should be a major shock, right?
But when I made that move in the 1990s, it was a smooth and easy transition. How can that be?
Here’s what I discovered when I examined that question:
https://101fragments.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/job-transitions/
Check out my interview on Scrum Master Toolbox from 2018 with Vasco Duarte. We talked about #orgculture, #scrum, #canada. Our conversation is as relevant today as it was then, despite our changing #world.
Since January, I’ve been looking back at a few decades of work, learning, ideas, experiences, seeing what left a lasting impression and writing about it.
This time, I wrote about a wonderful corporate culture, very focused on
- employee experience
- customer experience
- 100% accountability
Have a look, and let me know what you think!
Corporate culture: an example that still inspires me
https://101fragments.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/corporate-culture-an-example-that-still-inspires-me/
Have mentioned this article a lot in recent weeks. It seems to resonate with people as I think many struggle to discern what psychological safety actually IS and what it is NOT.
Safety is not the same as comfort...
Check out my interview on Scrum Master Toolbox from 2018. We spoke of org culture, common pitfalls, and tips to achieve better team work. So much of the conversation I had with Vasco then is still relavant. https://scrum-master-toolbox.org/tag/david-sabine/
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