Archives
Organizational Change Practioners on LinkedIn
A few weeks ago LinkedIn allowed us to create subgroups within this group. Subgroups are like a break-out session at a conference. They enable you to create more focused areas than in the main group. This is what we did with Organizational Change Practitioners.
How to Apologize
When we make a mistake, most of us understand that we owe an apology. We know this because when we are hurt by a mistake made by someone else, we want that person to apologize to us.
Web 2.0 includes Invisible Hand
Over the past week I experienced that the good old brainstorming techniques that are derived from de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats don’t need a nudge in the Web 2.0 age.
Stakeholder management is dead – Announcing community facilitation!
Stakeholder management passed away June 20, 2009 surrounded by his family. He died of top-down-command-and-control disease. He was the widow of certified nincompoops. Born in theory to social scientists, he leaves his beloved children Dullness and Cognitive Dissonance. He is also survived by his grandchildren Workshop-till-you-drop, Toolkit-from-here-to-Tokyo and Audit-the-hell-out-of-you. He leaves behind numerous devoted flipchart […]
How do you Appraise?
Amazing things happen when we reverse the laws of gravity that govern our thinking about appraisals.
How Do You Recruit?
How can I be sure that the person I am interviewing fits the position I am hiring for? A clear function description is necessary, but far from sufficient. We need “Viral Interviewing”.
Pareto would have been a good project manager
If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti Vilfredo Pareto is the father of the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. Pareto noticed that 80% of Italy’s wealth was owned by 20% of the population. He then carried out surveys on a variety of other countries and […]
Parenting as a Management Skill … Huh? (part 5)
We don’t need to attend the courses of prestigious business schools in order to discover the essence of change management.
Healthy Meetings
Last week, someone made me aware of the fact that a 4 hour meeting we attended with 30 persons accounted for almost one man-month. Unfortunately, it never says so on the invoices or the time-sheets of the participants.
Resistance, Resentment, Regret, Rescue OR…. RESPECT?
A lot of R words with a particular significance on this blog. In a reaction on last week’s post I was requested to define resistance more precisely.
