by Kevin Brimhall | Oct 27, 2011 | Book Summaries, Organizational Excellence
I came across "Our Iceberg is Melting. Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions" when looking for a book on organizational change. I was then pleased to see that the forward was written by Spencer Johnson who authored "Who Moved My Cheese" and...
by Kevin Brimhall | Oct 18, 2011 | Organizational Excellence
Managing Change in Organizations. If change were an acronym, what would it be? C.H.A.N.G.E.: Constant Havoc Amidst Needy Grumbling Employees or C.H.A.N.G.E.: Challenging, Hostile, And No-Good Edicts (from management) or C.H.A.N.G.E.: Corrosive Headaches Arriving and...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jul 28, 2011 | Organizational Excellence
Do you want to fix the toaster or keep scraping the burnt part off the toast? It seems like a simple question, but hear me out. If we believe the premise that we get what we accept, the notion that we would continue to accept an unacceptable outcome rather than...
by Kevin Brimhall | Oct 26, 2010 | Book Summaries, Leadership
It seems strange, I realize, that a hospital would need to be healed. But that was the situation that existed a decade ago at Southeast Georgia Health System. Costs were out of line with revenues, employee morale was awful, doctors weren’t happy, and the...
by Kevin Brimhall | Sep 29, 2010 | Book Summaries, Leadership
The book’s subtitle is “A Leadership Fable” and it tells the story of a talented and fairly successful CEO who also runs terribly ineffective meetings, negatively impacting the business’ performance and results. Lencioni, best-selling author of...
