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Leading Change = Innovation
Below you will find a presentation by Guy Kawasaki. Kawasaki is well known in the world of marketing and it’s about time that the dry and – at times – overly academic world of organizational change gets introduced to his ideas. In this particular presentation Guy Kawasaki talks at the 2007 Event Marketer Conference about […]
An Alternative Approach to Resistance
The picture below shows two brilliant management consultants unwinding at the counter of a downtown bar. Note the subtle difference between the white text balloons and the grey ones. White = categorized, judged, stuck, isolated, done. Grey = puzzled, eager to find out, preparing for interaction. The point of this post is to offer you […]
Open Letter To My Colleagues (Incl. Myself)
In my career as a management consultant I have met all kinds of colleagues that I envy and admire for their charisma, their wit, their smartness or their marvelous rhetoric. Nevertheless I recently found out that all the things that make us great consultants, smart and intelligent, fast and proactive, are holding us back from […]
Three Ways to Disagree
The below drawing started while I was making notes during a meeting last week. I observed three distinct behaviors resulting in three different outcomes. To my surprise I witnessed that behavior 1 and 3 are authentic behaviors that give a clear direction to the team and a positive contribution to the meeting results overall. Number […]
