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Parenting as a Management Skill … Huh? (part 6)
Parenting is the ideal litmus test to see if your brilliant ideas as a leader will eventually survive. Goal setting is a great example. Parents know that goal setting only works when the goals are set as a result of a conversation.
Knowledge = a Social Fabric
Strange things happen on my way to work and they lead to awkward insights. For example: last week on the train to Brussels my computer bag got stolen and now I am convinced that knowledge is a social fabric.
The 6 big concerns of change
Pat Zigarmi underscoring why involvement of your target audience is the single factor determining the success of your organizational change endeavor.
Seagull Management
Chatting with Vera the other day on all sorts of management styles; we came across one she had never heard of before: Seagull Management.
The “Why” guy
Anthony Robbins – the legendary coach – in action at the TED conference. We see how he condenses his life’s work into 20 minutes in very compelling way.
Kicking yourself in the ‘BUT’
Thinking about how we use the word ‘but’ in our common conversations, this week I made a strange observation. ‘But’ is a blocker, a stopper, a false yes and most of all: a crusher of commitment.
Rituals and Habits
Today I declare the birth of a new discipline: Attention Management. For an organizational change practitioner attention management may be more important than the management of time, manpower and money. It’s about shifting the attention to the stuff we take for granted, i.e.: the rituals and habits that protect people’s comfort zones.
A conflict isn’t always a bad thing – Part 6
Looking at the kind of conversations one can have in a project context. The ones I have been involved in can be categorized in three groups.
Smart Consultants? (Part 2)
Another research on the critical factors that determine our performance. Although not as scientifically significant as the research of professor Gardner that I mentioned last week; Organizational Change Practitioner Jim Markowsky decided to ask his colleagues how they would define success.
Smart Consultants?
In a recent working paper of Harvard Business School, Heidi Gardner suggests that staffing your project with high level performers is necessary but not sufficient to get the job done.
