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Love & Work (Part 1) – Free To Work
The world of work is changing rapidly and it is difficult to make sense of it all. In search for a subject-matter-expert we bumped into Jan Denys. His latest book offers us more than one perspective on the status of work. A great starting point for this series on Love & Work.
It’s the Content Stupid! (Feat. Seth Godin)
How did you find out and follow-up on the Icelandic volcano news or the latest weather report? By flipping through yesterday’s news in Rainforest format? Or by surfing, clicking and chatting? The internet and e-books have radically changed the way we consume news and process information. And now that e-books are going mainstream the complete printing industry is at stake.
Free e-book: 20 Shortcuts on Organizational Change
If you would ask me to summarize our field of expertise in 20 points, this e-book would be my answer. It contains my personal view on the basics of Organizational Change Management.
Power to the Architects
As we closed the first decade of this century, Elephants entered the scene of Organizational Change Management, but at the same time our profession became more actionable. After decades of literature that mainly explained the process of change, the focus is now on how we can shape our environment.
Facebook or Facecrime? (SOS VideoClass N°2)
Spotting Digital Natives like an anthropologist. Catching the first sun after a long winter in Leuven we find students scattered in the park. To me – in my blossoming thirties – a strange sight and a blunt proof of the fact that I have slipped into another generation. Could I be a Digital Immigrant?
Organisations in Search of a New Balance – Part 2: The Sheep Drama
Organizations don’t fall by threats they noticed in time but by threats they didn’t see coming. The low innovative power of organizations is caused by 2D-managers and 2D-HRM who didn’t or wouldn’t see the harmful impact of job descriptions and competence management on creative entrepreneurship. Unconsciously they were successful in changing a whole generation of talented people into sheep.
Mind the Stopgap!
You should never be implementing SAP for the sake of SAP. The investment should be directly linked to the realization of business benefits over the course of a payback period. Without benefits, SAP is just a stopgap. An expensive stopgap.
Elephants! Everywhere I look!
Forget the cheese and the mice, organizational change management just entered a new era: that of elephants and riders. The Heath brothers published a ground-breaking book on our core business.
Meet my Dad
What is the value of feedback when I can’t frame it, understand it or act upon it? Will I be labeled ‘resistant’ if I ask to reframe it over and over again? Feedback – yes but… feedback that is not actionable and measurable in my world will not empower me.
Music and Leadership (part 3)
Strange things happen when you look at leadership through the lens of music. Basic assumptions flip over and stay like that forever after. You untie knots that you took for granted. Like the idea that a leader is the most important person of a team.
