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culture and behaviours
Can We Rescue DEI From Its Trap (The Label)?
Most of the problems and challenges in organizations, together with most of the solutions, are behavioural in nature. It’s about […]
Restructuring to force collaboration, is likely to create more anxiety than collaboration. Structural solutions for behavioural problems hardly work.
Sometimes restructuring is done with the intention of solving a collaboration problem. ´A people´ don’t talk to ´B people´; if […]
Large scale change is not small scale change repeated many times. Small wins repeated are lots of small wins.
Large scale change, as a series of cascading small scale interventions (often under the philosophy of ‘small wins’) has dominated […]
Culture change is not long and difficult. But we make it so…
I suppose the question is how long is long and how difficult is difficult? In general, business and organizational consulting have […]
Value is an overused term in business and, as such, it’s becoming meaningless
Value, as usually used, means transactional monetary value. Usually it doesn’t mean intrinsic value, or value per se. For example, […]
The importance of ‘critical thinking.’ Your own critical thinking is more effective at making your workplace better than any generic employee survey.
Build your own Employee Engagement argument for free. You can’t go wrong. Here are three baskets full of concepts: Basket […]
´Busy-Ness’ Is A Trap
I went to a big conference where I was introduced by the chairman like this: “Welcome everybody. Lovely to have […]
Training and culture change. The love affair that ends in tears.
It seems to be very hard for people to get away from the idea that if we just put individuals […]
Critical Thinking Self-Test: A 10 Point Health Check For Your Organization And Yourself. If any of these are a good picture of your organization, you need to put ‘critical thinking’ in the water supply.
Test yourself, and your organization. Do any of these apply? Doing lots, too fast without thinking. High adrenaline, not sure […]
A culture of safety or a culture of training in safety?
Cultures are created by behaviours becoming the norm. Safety is at the core of many industries. Significant budgets are allocated […]
Empowerment is an output. If you can visualize it, you can craft it.
The real question is, what do you want to see happening so that you can say ‘people are empowered’? Employee […]
A simple question will jumpstart your organization into change. It will also save you from months of pain spent reorganizing your people and teams.
The following line will short-cut months of (building) ‘alignment’, integration, reorganization, team building, coalition building, and any situation in which Peter, […]
Write a script, not a strategic plan
If you care about the journey and the place, you need a story. If you have a good, compelling one, […]
3 self-sabotaging mechanisms in organizations
Organizations, like organisms, have embedded mechanisms of survival, of growth and also of self-sabotage. These are 3 self-sabotage systems to […]
Who should be involved in culture change? All inclusive versus going where the energy is.
Many times, in my consulting work, I find myself facing a dilemma: Do I involve many people on the client’s […]
Tell what won’t change – Introducing 1 of my 40 rules of change
In any change programme that any organization wants to start, they will start by thinking of the things that they […]
Assets & Strengths Base – Introducing 1 of my 40 rules of change
For more than 30 years I have been involved in ‘change’ in organizations. Again and again, some fundamental principles, and often […]
Campaign It… is 1 of my 40 rules of change
When you filter out the noise, when you try to extract the core, the fundamentals, those ‘universal rules’ of change […]
Hybrid or not hybrid? That’s not the question…
Culture is the new workplace If you want to have a conversation about the future of work, the nature of […]
Corporate tribes, intellectual ghettos and open window policies
We talk a lot about silos in organizations usually in the context of Business Units or divisions. But these are not […]
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