In any successful organization, when working with change management, culture, strategy and transformation, the art of translating the value that people bring to business into business results becomes a way of life, a way of continuously being authorised to continue working. When change looms ahead, business has developed a strange way of being stuck, and not be able to move forward with their people, simply because faster, cheaper, better have become the only mantra for success.
As a mountaineer, I have learnt the hard way that, to be successful at culture and transformation work, requires a paradigm of go slow to go fast, a process akin to climbing the highest peaks in the ...