Dr Mike Clayton
Mike is an author and speaker, specialising in Projects, Risk, Organisational change, and the science of influence and decision-making.
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Tag Archives: Change Management
The Origins of Project Management
For many years, I have asserted that project management goes back to the pyramid builders and even earlier. I like to imagine an ancient Egyptian official sketching a work breakdown for his (it would have been a man then, I … Continue reading
NAO damning report on NHS NPfIT
A snappy title? I doubt I could have fitted the full names into the title box, so: NAO: The UK’s National Audit Office scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament. More here. NHS: The National Health Service – still, despite … Continue reading
Don’t buy my book…
I wrote a book called “The Handling Resistance Pocketbook” that was published in September 2010. I like to think it’s a fine book and certainly five people to date have given it good reviews on the UK Amazon site. Thanks … Continue reading
What’s the hardest part of your project or change?
Seth Godin recently wrote a short post asking “Sure, but what’s the hard part?” It reminded me of one of my most frequent pieces of advice to project managers and leaders of change: “find the one thing you need to … Continue reading
Posted in Project Success
Tagged Change Management, Pareto Principle, project management, project manager, Seth Godin
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Instant Change
The military has some of the very best management ideas. I wrote about how to apply the principles of the OODA Loop to management in my first book, the Management Models Pocketbook. I will also be writing about BLUF in … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Management Models
Tagged Change, Change Management, freeze phases, Influence, Kurt Lewin, Lewin, OODA Loop, organisational change
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