Lean Change Management: Leaders Change First - Peter LePiane, Leadership and Change Coach

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/melkoumov/"><strong>Follow me on Linkedin</strong></a><strong> for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips.<br></strong><br><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p><p>0:00 | Introduction to Peter LePiane<br>1:30 | Keeping large remote groups engaged requires a strategy – and realism.<br>5:31 | Peter defines change management and what it encompasses.<br>8:12 | About internal cultural indicators (i.e. mindsets) that can stall change adoption. <br>10:56 | Deploying an experimental if/then orientation to successfully effect change. <br>19:21 | Change mindsets require leadership that embraces a surrender to uncertainty. <br>16:00 | Going first and being authentic about the result is hard but essential to change.<br>18:55 | All about MBAs: Peter’s observations about their role, utility and liability. <br>22:25 | Why (&amp; how) some organizations excel at product discovery, where others flounder.<br>25:50 | Knowing Your Customer is a muscle that must be exercised regularly at all levels. <br>27:27 | Customer feedback is critical — and low-hanging fruit waiting to be plucked. <br>28:44 | Peter recommends tactics and trainings leaders can implement to foster change.<br>32:00 | In-house vs. outside consultants: Outsourcing change isn’t sustainable on its own; tools and strategies must be adopted/integrated internally as well. <br>38:36 | Peter explains his statistical model (“Estimatic”) for growth and how it creates <br> probabilities for a range of business outcomes applicable in both the corporate and <br>startup world.<br>43:15 | Peter explains why harnessing variables and associated cost estimates plays such a <br> critical role in product development. <br>45:14 | Product design without probabilities factored in is a recipe for failure.<br>46:08 | Final Words of Wisdom: Peter underscores that change can’t occur without surrender <br>to risk and vulnerability.</p><p><br><strong>Key Quotes:</strong></p><p>“Lean change management is really an experiment