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Management of Change
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scale It – Introducing 1 of my 40 rules of change
When creating effective change in any organization, there are 40 rules that, in my experience, are the key between success […]
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 […]
Change that doesn’t deliver change-ability is a waste
The traditional model of change is the one I call ‘destination’ type, that is, how to go from A to […]
Unprecedented Times? Sure. Let’s Move On Please.
Somewhere in the post-Covid peak, I promised myself that I wasn’t going to pay attention anymore to anything that starts with […]
Management: By Invitation Unbundle Reporting Lines and Management Teams
Corporate grade, reporting lines and membership of leadership teams in organizations often go together. But unbundling these components is a […]
Peer-to-peer is the strongest engine of change
Welcome to my weekly focus on culture change, leadership and organizational design. This week, I focus on what culture is, […]
No single discipline has the answer anymore. There is no escape. Read and re-skill like mad.
Whether you are sitting in HR, Organizational Development or any other corporate function, or simply in a position of management […]
The New Classics of Management (2 of 2)
Following on from Wednesday’s proposition, the new disciplines of management, ‘The New Classics’ are these 10: 1. Behavioural Economics 2. […]
The New Classics of Management. (1 of 2)
Amongst the challenges that management has in the 21st Century, which are shared, of course, by specific functions such as […]
Here is the good news: good values, translated into behaviours, are contagious
How do you make values live? Install them in a culture? Model 1: You preach them and preach them, and […]
The year of the peer (one of us, people like me, my horizontal tribe)
If I were the one in charge of deciding the ‘person of the year’ for the front cover of Time […]
A mobilizing platform is the human operating system of the company. You need to install your HOS.
I said previously that large scale mobilization of people (AKA social movements, AKA company culture) needs a platform. They don’t […]
Storytelling wins wars whilst everybody else is fighting battles (1 of 3): the ingredients
Today, we are in front of daily wars of narratives: political, social, models of the world, futures, concept of Man. […]
The corporate mille-feuille. Layers of initiatives don’t touch each other
In a large company, what do a leadership development, a culture change and a business integration programme typically have in […]
The alternative post-mortem of failed change programmes(5 of 5): we communicate too much
In this mini series I have shared so far four inconvenient truths uncovered by the forensics of ‘change management’ failure: […]
The alternative Post-mortem of failed change programmes. (4 of 5): Too much vision, not lack of it
Fourth in the mini series: uncovering of truths of the failure of change and transformation programmes via a reverse engineering. […]
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