Weatherization Czar

The Obama administration has appointed numerous czars in recent months. Perhaps a weatherization czar should be appointed to carefully monitor the use of millions of dollars targeted for weatherization and energy efficiency programs. What do you think?

Change is coming to Weatherization Programs

Many leading experts report that most change efforts fail. Consider this recent quote from the Toronto Globe & Mail (Canada) "A 2008 McKinsey & Co. survey of more than 3,000 executives revealed that only 33 percent of change efforts succeed, which is close to the 30 percent rate that Harvard University professor John Kotter discovered in 1996." In addition a 2008 book: Change The Way You Lead Change, (Herold, David M. and Fedor, Donald B.) suggested that fewer than 20 percent of all change efforts succeed.

Are you prepared? Is the agency that you work for (your agency!) prepared? As the the money comes rolling in to assist weatherization agencies it is time to consider - are you ready?