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Cracking the Code of Indifference…
… and Coming to Better Grips with Resistance For a few weeks now I am fascinated by a discussion on indifference on Tom Peters’ blog. It brought to my attention that there is more than ‘good old resistance’ to organizational change. The longer I thought about it the more I realized that the number one […]
Project Cocooning
A Remarkable Phenomenon The fact that a program has its own objective(s), budget, organization,resources, and management is not a reason it should exist as a island within the organization, having no contact with the rest of the organization. A remarkable phenomenon is that many teams isolate themselves in their own cocoons, having little contact as […]
Why Marketeers outperform Organizational Change Experts (PART II)
I always wonder why a glossary is mostly the last part of a document – it just makes no sense. So, let’s not do that and start with the glossary of this very article…
Quantum Theory and Change Management
The Essence of Organizational Change Management is based on … Quantum Theory
What’s In It For Me?
How do you sell something people didn’t ask for? It’s a question worth asking when you are involved in organizational change projects such as an ERP implementation. In my opinion, marketers know more about how to cope with a changing environment than any other people inside an organization. In fact, the survival of the […]
Reframing the Question
A recent survey conducted by the McKinsey Quarterly (2006) among 1536 executives of publicly and privately held businesses across a full range of industries reveals the importance of emotions in the success of an organizational change. The respondents who experienced a performance transformation over the past 5 years were asked to rate it on […]
