Get Wise

I Think, therefore...

A lot can be inferred from a name and we think ours is spot on. You see, we believe that if organizations think smarter, differently, better, faster, in essence, more Wisely, that they can have a better organization. In my doctoral training, I was brought up under what is called the Cognitive Behavior orientation. This sounds like a fancy phrase, but it is pretty straightforward and simple. And truth be told, its power is in its simplicity and ease of understanding. It essentially means that how we Think drives how we Feel and Behave. That is it. But think about that for a minute. There is something very powerful here. How we think, in large part, determines how we feel and behave.

ThinkWise was started as a response to all of the “noise” that we saw out in the organization development marketplace. It seems like every other company was trying to make some type of improvements and they were using tools that may have looked interesting, but were almost impossible to relate to the organization’s strategy and objectives. On top of that, I can’t tell you how many people have decided that they were change management experts and sold their services as such. In the end, however, very few “experts” actually help organizations get the results that they were after. In fact, over 86% of change management efforts fail to hit their target objectives. Think about that for just a moment. That equates to 1000s of hours and billions of dollars lost each year on something that does not work. Frankly, we were tired of this. We figured that we had not only seen enough things not work, but we may have even contributed to some failures in the past. So, we stopped. We began to have a lot of internal discussions. One of my colleagues noted that “hell we can put a man on the moon, but we can’t get people to agree on priorities. That isn’t right.” But we knew we could find a better way.