During one of AT&T's many transformations, I interviewed the woman in charge of Employee Health Services to find out what she'd observed about the most resilient people in the organization. I asked her if she noticed anything that these employees had in common that helped them deal so successfully with change: Did they work in a particular geographic region? Had they reached a certain level of the hierarchy? Did they perform similar functions? Were they male? Female? Younger? Older?

The manager told me that none of those factors made a difference. She said, "People who thrive on organizational change have two things in common: They take good care of themselves and they have outside interests."

As I continued talking with professionals in thirty organizations (and seven industries), the same theme kept repeating in my interviews. People who were the most adept at dealing with organizational change, not only had a career — they had a life.

That's a great perspective on change-management.

But the most interesting news was that re-orgs had become "so prevalent in our business culture" that ZDNet.com now has a post called "The Microsoft Reorg Week in Review."  Written by tech sharpshooter Mary Jo Foley, here are a few gems to show just how pervasive reorg-think has become.

It’s time, yet again, to update the ever-changing Microsoft org chart . . . another piece to add to the seemingly never-ending stream of Microsoft reorg news . . .

So what’s one to make of all [the] churn? Brain drain? Panic over Gates’ impending role change? Or just “if it’s January, it must be time for yet another Microsoft reorg”? Word is there are still some more reorg shoes to drop in the next week or so, so stay tuned.

I understand there's a lot more on reorgs to come, so will keep you posted as things develop.  In the meantime, for more on the subject, scroll down and click the "Management Practices" link in the Category Archives on the right.