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Mind the Stopgap!
You should never be implementing SAP for the sake of SAP. The investment should be directly linked to the realization of business benefits over the course of a payback period. Without benefits, SAP is just a stopgap. An expensive stopgap.
Parenting as a Management Skill … Huh? (part 7)
A few weeks ago a friend told me that the only thing he can do as a parent is to stand behind his kids – both hands open – saying: “I will catch you if you fall”. Here’s another great lesson one can only learn by being home early enough.
Top-10 signs your employee survey needs to change
A great an interview with Curt Coffman on the pitfalls one can encounter when performing employee surveys.
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.
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”.
Parenting as a Management Skill … Huh? (part 5)
In addition to the articles on parenting as a management skill that I posted in February 2009, there is one more insight I’d like to add. I found out that the epicenter of organizational change management is hidden in the simple mechanism of cause-and-effect. And I found out about it by being home between television [...]
Quality Time is a Lie
Crushed by the sadness of an illusion that evaporates. Quality time is a lie. And everything else that is based on this idea is falling apart. Coming home from a hard day or a tough week at work I used to say to myself: ‘from now on it’s quality time’. Quality time is a time-slot [...]
Once upon a time…
A fairy tale for the suffering in the workplace. Once upon a time there was a pond with the most exceptional fish one could think of. The man who took care of the pond wanted it to be the best pond of all times, and so did the fish. The man took care of everything [...]
What on Earth are we Communicating for?
What should be the result of successful communication? In this article I am building further on earlier insights about the format and the quantity of communication. Now it is time to dive into the qualitative aspect.
