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Some Mails are Better Never Sent

I tend to believe that the best consulting work is done with the heart breaking or overflowing. Sometimes people tell me not to get so emotionally involved and to adopt a rational outsider perspective.

The Duck

Always remember: a duck is a duck and a fish is a fish. Fail to see the difference as a consultant and down you go. Sometimes it seems like a farm or a pond captures more of the essence of our profession than a business school. In an earlier post about consulting (Open letter to […]

FYI: slides, slides, slides!

I have added some more slides lately to the ‘Luc’s Slides’ section. They come in pdf format, which makes it easier to grab the speaker notes that I attached to each slide. The following slideshows are available: 1. Change Management Cooking Class (46 slides)A ten step introduction into organizational change management from a project perspective. […]

Suspect Yourself First

I just can’t get a hold of that thing called ‘resistance’. This is an attempt to map how I get hooked by energy draining conflicts, oppositions and being right.

Another NO-vote for Culture Surveys

In an earlier post I have upset some HR managers who are spending fortunes on culture audits and climate indexes. First of all I underscored these initiatives either scare the hell out of people, confuse them, or bore them to death. In his 1994 book ‘The Unwritten Rules of the Game’, Peter Scott-Morgan gives us […]