Posts Tagged ‘Mary T. O'Sullivan’
Why Senior Executives Fail; A Universal Story – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. – Lewis Grizzard In the early 1990’s, the late Jack Welch gathered 20 of his brightest executives to capture rubrics of their success. These individuals were the future senior leaders of GE. They spent…
Read MoreA Framework for Change – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL A Framework for Change: Support and Challenge Model Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day” – Frances Hesselbein Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, USA, became one of…
Read MoreLeaders follow their instincts – Mary T. O’Sullivan
Leaders follow their instincts – by Mary T. O’Sullivan, business leader.
Read MoreIs Change Management Turning You Inside Out? – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL A Modern Day Rasputin Consultants are mystical people who ask the company for a number and then gives it back to them. – Unknown It’s not uncommon for leaders to be faced with “big rocks” to solve. (Forbes, “What Are Your Big Rocks?” January 21, 2020) They are complex issues,…
Read MoreWhen Did Women Learn to Stop Being Ladies? – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman.” – Anonymous Bad behavior by women might no longer be illegal, but people still shake their heads when an incident is on display. Just think of the many “Karen” memes that came into “fashion” in…
Read MoreWe still get our hands stuck in the cookie jar – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly” – Aristotle 384-322 BC The scandals of the Deep -Water Horizon oil spill and the Wells Fargo account manipulation fraud, among other notable scandals (Enron and WorldComm for example)…
Read MoreWithout a Clear Vision, Change Often Fails – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL What’s Your “Big Hairy Audacious Goal”? “In a hierarchy, we seldom really know what is going on below us.” – James Collins, From Good to Great Way back in graduate school, I did some of my own research that revealed that when an organization’s vision for change isn’t clearly identified,…
Read MoreI Know a Guy: Legal Challenges from Bad Hiring Practices – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “Hiring is the most important people function you have, and most of us aren’t as good at it as we think.” – Laszlo Bock If you’re familiar with the adage, “I know a guy”, you might also know that a lot of local hiring practices are based on “who you…
Read MoreWhen Resistance Overcomes Change – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic” – Peter Drucker We’ve all heard the old adage, “You can’t change anyone else; you can only change yourself.” So, we ask others to change, but have we, ourselves, internalized the change that we’re…
Read MoreChoose Your Consultants Wisely… A Modern Day Rasputin – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL Consultants are mystical people who ask the company for a number and then gives it back to them. – Unknown It’s not uncommon for leaders to be faced with “big rocks” to solve. (Forbes, “What Are Your Big Rocks?” January 21, 2020) They are complex issues, and with full…
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