Bruce Tuckman
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.
A conflict isn’t always a bad thing – Part 4
"Implementation is the last 99%" – Tom Peters Finally – the GSD perspective (GSD = ‘Getting Stuff Done’). When we have a closer look at the workplace dynamics that are in play when projects and departments are getting work done (aka: ‘implementation’), there is a remarkable phenomenon: conflict and tension seem to be part of […]
Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing
Dr Bruce Tuckman published his Forming Storming Norming Performing model in 1965. He added a fifth stage, Adjourning, in the 1970s. It is one of the few ‘evergreen’ theories on group dynamics that I know. And I am struck by its predictive validity each time I am involved in a largescale project. The biggest challenge […]
