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Maurer and Associates
Why Changes Fail and
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Leading Change and Managing it Effectively with Rick Maurer
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 We advise change leaders on ways to effectively plan and implement major new initiatives such as Lean-Six Sigma, merger integration, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and reorganizations.
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Advice and Consultation
on Leading Change
Speaking on
Change Leadership
 My approach to change management is informal and personal, and my clients tell me it is effective. Click to see and read how I work.
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on Leading Change
Speaking on
Change Leadership
Preview the new completely revised paperback version of Beyond the Wall of Resistance: Why 70% of Changes Still Fail and What You Can Do About It as well as my other books on change leadership.
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- Podcast with Barbara Trautlein 5-10-13 (5/16/2013) - Recently I interviewed Barbara Trautlein who is the author of an excellent book about change intelligence. Click the play button (the triangle that points to the right) to listen. Don’t forget to comment! Click here to listen to the Podcast with Barbara Trautlein–5-10-13 Related Blogs Print, Email or Convert this page to PDF
- The Wonder of Performance Reviews (2/26/2013) - The Wonder of Performance Reviews Kabuki: a highly stylized form of theater Jena McGregor’s piece The Corporate Kabuki of Performance Reviews (The Washington Post 2/24/13) gets it right. This annual ritualized bloodletting doesn’t appreciably improve performance and yet we persist. Ask yourself, when was the last time you came out of a performance review and [...]
- What Data Can’t Do – and 3 Levels of Resistance (2/19/2013) - Daivd Brooks wrote a fine column this morning titled What Data Can’t Do in the New York Times. It is a good illustration of how the three levels of support and resistance play out in business decisions. And the risk of relying too heavily on Level 1 objective data. (If you don’t know those levels, [...]
- How Come Work Doesn’t Imitate Art? (2/15/2013) - How Come Work Doesn’t Imitate Art? Last Tuesday I heard one of the finest concerts I have ever heard in my life. (And I have gone to lots of concerts over the years.) It was the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons. They played Mahler’s First Symphony. I love that piece of music and [...]
- The 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation (1/2/2013) - The 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863). The original signed document is so fragile and faded that it only goes on display for a few hours every year. The National Archives wisely choose to display it during the anniversary of the [...]
